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can oral inosine increase serum or plasma inosine?
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Close, but not quite. What she has said is that they are very similar and inosine is easy to get in the US while Imunovir is not available in the US has to be sourced from Canada, so it's usually sufficient to go with the easier and cheaper one.Dr Rey has told her patients that they are the same.
In any case, Schneider suggested that systemic delivery routes are likely to be challenging because of the small molecule's short plasma half-life. “Greater than 95% of inosine is cleared from the plasma within 5 minutes,” he noted.