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Valtorcitabine
An orally active prodrug of torcitabine (L-deoxycytidine), a nucleoside analog with activity against hepatitis B virus. Torcitabine is modified in vivo to its triphosphate form and acts as a competitive inhibitor of viral DNA polymerase. (NCI Thesaurus)
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