Enteca Tablet 0.5 mg
৳ 48.00
Administration of Entecavir with food decreases absorption and so it should be taken in an empty stomach (at least 2 hours before or 2 hours after meal).
Adult over 16 years, not previously treated with nucleoside analogues: 0.5 mg once daily.
Adult over 16 years with lamivudine or telbivudine resistant chronic hepatitis B: 1 mg once daily.
Entecavir is a guanosine nucleoside analogue with potent and selective activity against HBV polymerase. For pharmacological action it is phosphorylated to the active triphosphate (TP) form. Entecavir triphosphate functionally inhibits all 3 activities of the viral polymerase-
Priming of the HBV polymerase,
Reverse transcription of the negative strand from the pregenomic messenger RNA
Synthesis of the positive strand HBV DNA.
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