Atevirdine, also known as U-87201, is a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that has been studied for the treatment of HIV. Atevirdine has been shown to have significant anti-HIV RT activity in vitro, it inhibits HIV-1 replication in infected peripheral blood leukocyte cultures at a 50% inhibitory concentration of 1 nM and a concentration which is cytotoxic to 50% of cells of 100 μM and also inhibits completely the formation of syncytia in human T-cell leukemia virus type III-infected MT-2 cells at 2 μM.

Providing storage is as stated on the product vial and the vial is kept tightly sealed, the product can be stored for up to 24 months.
Wherever possible, you should prepare and use solutions on the same day. However, if you need to make up stock solutions in advance, we recommend that you store the solution as aliquots in tightly sealed vials at -20°C. Generally, these will be useable for up to one month. Before use, and prior to opening the vial we recommend that you allow your product to equilibrate to room temperature for at least 1 hour.