Medical term:

arabinosylcytosine



ar·a·bi·no·syl·cy·to·sine (aC, araC),

(a'ră-bin-ō-sil-sī'tō-sēn),
A compound of arabinose and cytosine, analogous to ribosylcytosine (cytidine), which inhibits the biosynthesis of DNA; used as a chemotherapeutic agent because of its antiviral and tumor-growth-inhibiting properties.
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arabinosylcytosine

Therapeutics An antibiotic that blocks DNA synthesis, derived from cytosine by replacing ribose with arabinose
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.


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