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Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides > Nucleosides > Purine Nucleosides > Adenosine > Vidarabine
... > Carbohydrates > Glycosides > Nucleosides > Purine Nucleosides > Adenosine > Vidarabine
... > Heterocyclic Compounds > Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused-Ring > Heterocyclic Compounds, 2-Ring > Purines > Purine Nucleosides > Adenosine > Vidarabine
Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides > Nucleosides > Ribonucleosides > Adenosine > Vidarabine
... > Carbohydrates > Glycosides > Nucleosides > Ribonucleosides > Adenosine > Vidarabine
Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides > Nucleosides > Arabinonucleosides > Vidarabine
Carbohydrates > Glycosides > Nucleosides > Arabinonucleosides > Vidarabine

Preferred term

Vidarabine  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A nucleoside antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces antibioticus. It has some antineoplastic properties and has broad spectrum activity against DNA viruses in cell cultures and significant antiviral activity against infections caused by a variety of viruses such as the herpes viruses, the VACCINIA VIRUS and varicella zoster virus.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 5536-17-4 (Vidarabine)
  • 9-beta-Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • 9-beta-D-Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • 9H-Purin-6-amine, 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl-
  • Adenine Arabinoside
  • alpha-Ara A
  • alpha-D-Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • Ara A
  • Ara-A
  • Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • Arabinosyladenine
  • beta-Ara A
  • FA2DM6879K

Allowable Qualifier(s)

Pharmacological Action(s)

In other languages

  • Vidarabine

    French

  • 5536-17-4 (Vidarabine)
  • 9H-Purin-6-amine, 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl-
  • FA2DM6879K

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-PQZZM2LC-M

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