Medicina: Oncoematologia pediatrica: Leucemia linfoblastica acuta
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cytarabine |
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Attestation |
3
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Definition |
a cytotoxic antineoplastic agent C9H13N3O5 that is a synthetic isomer of the naturally occurring nucleoside of cytosine and arabinose and is used especially in the treatment of acute leukemias.
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Definition source |
Merriam-Webster´s Medical Dictionary
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Context |
Of considerable therapeutic interest, the leukemiccells of infants with ALL are significantly more sensitiveto cytarabine than are cells from older children.132 In addition, B-cell precursors that lacked CD10 expression were resistant to prednisone and L-asparaginase but showed significant sensitivity to cytarabine, in contrast to cases with CD10 expression.
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Context source |
en04
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Synonym |
Ara-C, cytosine arabinoside, cytarabine, arabinosyl cytosine.
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Subject field |
Pediatric Oncohematology
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Generic concept |
antimetabolites
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de |
AraC
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it |
ARA-C
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Reliability code |
3
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