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cytosine arabinoside

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cytosine /cy·to·sine/ (si´to-sēn) a pyrimidine base occurring in animal and plant cells, usually condensed with ribose or deoxyribose to form the nucleosides cytidine and deoxycytidine, major constituents of nucleic acids. Symbol C.
cytosine arabinoside  cytarabine.
cytosine ar·a·bin·o·side (r-bn-sd, -rb-n-sd)
n. Abbr. CA
A compound of arabinose and cytosine that inhibits both DNA synthesis and the proliferation of viruses that contain DNA, used as a chemotherapeutic agent. Also called cytarabine.
cytosine arabinoside.
See cytarabine.
cytosine
a pyrimidine base found in the nucleic acids, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA).
cytosine arabinoside
see cytarabine.


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2] daily and 7 days of cytosine arabinoside by continuous infusion at 100 mg/[m.
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He was placed on a chemotherapeutic regimen of daunorubicin and cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C) for remission induction of AML.
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Two physicians from the University of Miami have found that the protein, called epidermal growth factor (EGF), prevented balding among a group of six rats receiving high doses of cytosine arabinoside, a widely used anticancer drug also known as ARA-C.
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