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Pentostatin

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Pentostatin (or deoxycoformycin, trade name Nipent, manufactured by SuperGen) is an anticancer chemotherapeutic drug. [1]

13 relations: Adenosine, Adenosine deaminase, Antimetabolite, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Graft-versus-host disease, Hairy cell leukemia, Intravenous therapy, Liver, Mitosis, Nucleoside, Purine analogue.

Adenosine

Adenosine is both a chemical found in many living systems and a medication.

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Adenosine deaminase

Adenosine deaminase (also known as adenosine aminohydrolase, or ADA) is an enzyme involved in purine metabolism.

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Antimetabolite

An antimetabolite is a chemical that inhibits the use of a metabolite, which is another chemical that is part of normal metabolism.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen.

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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell).

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Graft-versus-host disease

Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a medical complication following the receipt of transplanted tissue from a genetically different person.

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Hairy cell leukemia

Hairy cell leukemia is an uncommon hematological malignancy characterized by an accumulation of abnormal B lymphocytes.

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Intravenous therapy

Intravenous therapy (IV) is a therapy that delivers liquid substances directly into a vein (intra- + ven- + -ous).

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Liver

The liver, an organ only found in vertebrates, detoxifies various metabolites, synthesizes proteins, and produces biochemicals necessary for digestion.

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Mitosis

In cell biology, mitosis is a part of the cell cycle when replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei.

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Nucleoside

Nucleosides are glycosylamines that can be thought of as nucleotides without a phosphate group.

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Purine analogue

Purine analogues are antimetabolites that mimic the structure of metabolic purines.

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2'-deoxycoformycin, ATC code L01XX08, ATCvet code QL01XX08, C11H16N4O4, Co-Vidarabine, Covidarabine, Deoxycoformycin, Nipent, PD-ADI, Pentastatin, Vidarbine.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentostatin

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