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Cytarabine

Cytarabine

Cytarabine

Cytarabine, or cytosine arabinoside, a chemotherapy agent used mainly in the treatment of hematological malignancies such as acute myeloid leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma

class, substance, drug, medical concept, cause, Cytotoxic therapeutic agents, Nucleoside analogues, Drugs, hormones and biological mediators
ATC code, ATC Code
"L01BC01"
CAS registry_number, CAS Code
"147-94-4"
Side effects
conjunctivitis, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, Megaloblastic anemia, stomatitis,  …
Class
drug; Nucleoside analogues; Cytotoxic therapeutic agents; substance; Drugs, hormones and biological mediators;  …
Parent Class
drug, Nucleoside analogues, Cytotoxic therapeutic agents
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytarabine
PubChem ID
"6253"
ATC Prefix
"L01"
Cause of
conjunctivitis, thrombocytopenia, stomatitis, Megaloblastic anemia, Cerebellar ataxia,  …
Related Websites
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682222.html, http://www.pfeist.net/ALL/arac, http://chembank.med.harvard.edu/compounds/display.html?compound_id=1006&, http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/HPI/DrugDatabase/DrugIndexPro/Cytarabine.htm, http://www.aegis.com/factshts/network/access/drugs/cyta.html,  …
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000030f3ca"
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cytarabine
Mesh ID
"D003561"
Diseases DB id
"29530"
Contra-indications
pregnancy
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/031xzb"
Tell me what you know about Cytosine arabinoside (the hydrochloride form of cytarabine, an antimetabolite analogue of cytidine with a modified sugar moiety (arabinose instead of ribose)).
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