Cytarabine, the Glossary
Cytarabine, also known as cytosine arabinoside (ara-C), is a chemotherapy medication used to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[1]
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- Arabinosides
- DNA polymerase inhibitors
- DNA replication inhibitors
- Pyrimidine antagonists
- RNA polymerase inhibitors
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the lymphoid line of blood cells characterized by the development of large numbers of immature lymphocytes.
See Cytarabine and Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cell production.
See Cytarabine and Acute myeloid leukemia
Allergy
Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are various conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment.
Anemia
Anemia or anaemia (British English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen.
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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Antiviral drug
Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Cytarabine and Antiviral drug are Antiviral drugs.
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Arabinofuranosylcytosine triphosphate
Arabinofuranosylcytosine triphosphate is a nucleotide that inhibits the synthesis of DNA by acting as an antimetabolic agent against deoxycytidine (a component of DNA). Cytarabine and Arabinofuranosylcytosine triphosphate are Arabinosides and Pyrimidones.
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Arabinose
Arabinose is an aldopentose – a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms, and including an aldehyde (CHO) functional group.
Ataxia
Ataxia (from Greek α- + -τάξις.
Bleeding
Bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage or blood loss is blood escaping from the circulatory system from damaged blood vessels.
Bone marrow suppression
Bone marrow suppression also known as myelotoxicity or myelosuppression, is the decrease in production of cells responsible for providing immunity (leukocytes), carrying oxygen (erythrocytes), and/or those responsible for normal blood clotting (thrombocytes).
See Cytarabine and Bone marrow suppression
Cell cycle
The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle, is the sequential series of events that take place in a cell that causes it to divide into two daughter cells.
Cerebellum
The cerebellum (cerebella or cerebellums; Latin for "little brain") is a major feature of the hindbrain of all vertebrates.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard regimen. Cytarabine and Chemotherapy are cancer treatments.
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Chemotherapy-induced acral erythema
Chemotherapy-induced acral erythema, also known as palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia or hand-foot syndrome is reddening, swelling, numbness and desquamation (skin sloughing or peeling) on palms of the hands and soles of the feet (and, occasionally, on the knees, elbows, and elsewhere) that can occur after chemotherapy in patients with cancer.
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), also known as chronic myeloid leukemia, is a cancer of the white blood cells.
See Cytarabine and Chronic myelogenous leukemia
Conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, is inflammation of the outermost layer of the white part of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelid.
See Cytarabine and Conjunctivitis
Cytosine
Cytosine (symbol C or Cyt) is one of the four nucleobases found in DNA and RNA, along with adenine, guanine, and thymine (uracil in RNA). Cytarabine and Cytosine are Pyrimidones.
Dermatitis
Dermatitis is inflammation of the skin, typically characterized by itchiness, redness and a rash.
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
DNA polymerase
A DNA polymerase is a member of a family of enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of DNA molecules from nucleoside triphosphates, the molecular precursors of DNA.
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Fever
Fever or pyrexia in humans is a body temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.
Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Glia
Glia, also called glial cells (gliocytes) or neuroglia, are non-neuronal cells in the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system that do not produce electrical impulses.
Granulocyte
Granulocytes are cells in the innate immune system characterized by the presence of specific granules in their cytoplasm.
See Cytarabine and Granulocyte
Herpesviridae
Herpesviridae is a large family of DNA viruses that cause infections and certain diseases in animals, including humans.
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Induction chemotherapy
Induction chemotherapy is the first-line treatment of cancer with a chemotherapeutic drug.
See Cytarabine and Induction chemotherapy
Intrathecal administration
Intrathecal administration is a route of administration for drugs via an injection into the spinal canal, or into the subarachnoid space so that it reaches the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
See Cytarabine and Intrathecal administration
Intravenous therapy
Intravenous therapy (abbreviated as IV therapy) is a medical technique that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein.
See Cytarabine and Intravenous therapy
Kidney
In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.
Leukopenia
Leukopenia is a decrease in the number of leukocytes (WBC).
Liposome
A liposome is a small artificial vesicle, spherical in shape, having at least one lipid bilayer.
Liver
The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the synthesis of proteins and various other biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth.
Liver disease
Liver disease, or hepatic disease, is any of many diseases of the liver.
See Cytarabine and Liver disease
Lymphoma
Lymphoma is a group of blood and lymph tumors that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell).
Mitosis
Mitosis is a part of the cell cycle in which replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei.
Myelopathy
Myelopathy describes any neurologic deficit related to the spinal cord.
Nervous system
In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.
See Cytarabine and Nervous system
Neuron
A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across a neural network in the nervous system.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), also known as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is a group of blood cancers that includes all types of lymphomas except Hodgkin lymphomas.
See Cytarabine and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Non-homologous end joining
Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is a pathway that repairs double-strand breaks in DNA.
See Cytarabine and Non-homologous end joining
Nucleoside
Nucleosides are glycosylamines that can be thought of as nucleotides without a phosphate group. Cytarabine and Nucleoside are nucleosides.
Nucleoside analogue
Nucleoside analogues are structural analogues of a nucleoside, which normally contain a nucleobase and a sugar. Cytarabine and nucleoside analogue are Antiviral drugs and nucleosides.
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Nucleotide
Nucleotides are organic molecules composed of a nitrogenous base, a pentose sugar and a phosphate.
Pancreatitis
Pancreatitis is a condition characterized by inflammation of the pancreas.
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Peripheral neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy, often shortened to neuropathy, refers to damage or disease affecting the nerves.
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Pneumonitis
Pneumonitis describes general inflammation of lung tissue.
See Cytarabine and Pneumonitis
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).
RNA polymerase
In molecular biology, RNA polymerase (abbreviated RNAP or RNApol), or more specifically DNA-directed/dependent RNA polymerase (DdRP), is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactions that synthesize RNA from a DNA template.
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S phase
S phase (Synthesis phase) is the phase of the cell cycle in which DNA is replicated, occurring between G1 phase and G2 phase.
SAMHD1
SAM domain and HD domain-containing protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SAMHD1 gene.
Sponge
Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.
Stomatitis
Stomatitis is inflammation of the mouth and lips.
Subcutaneous administration
Subcutaneous administration is the insertion of medications beneath the skin either by injection or infusion.
See Cytarabine and Subcutaneous administration
Tectitethya crypta
Tectitethya crypta is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Tethyidae.
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Thrombocytopenia
In hematology, thrombocytopenia is a condition characterized by abnormally low levels of platelets (also known as thrombocytes) in the blood.
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Unconsciousness
Unconsciousness is a state in which a living individual exhibits a complete, or near-complete, inability to maintain an awareness of self and environment or to respond to any human or environmental stimulus.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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Upjohn
The Upjohn Company was an American pharmaceutical manufacturing firm founded in 1886 in Hastings, Michigan, by Dr.
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system. Cytarabine and WHO Model List of Essential Medicines are World Health Organization essential medicines.
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See also
Arabinosides
- Arabinofuranosylcytosine triphosphate
- Arabinopyranosyl-N-methyl-N-nitrosourea
- Arabinosyl nucleoside
- Avicularin
- Clevudine
- Clofarabine
- Cytarabine
- Fialuridine
- Fludarabine
- Guaijaverin
- Juglanin
- N4-Chloroacetylcytosine arabinoside
- Nelarabine
- Sorivudine
- Vidarabine
DNA polymerase inhibitors
- Amikhelline
- Aphidicolin
- Cytarabine
- Vernolepin
DNA replication inhibitors
- Alkylating antineoplastic agents
- Altretamine
- Bleomycin
- Cytarabine
- Dacarbazine
- Dactinomycin
- Ellipticine
- Estramustine phosphate
- Gilvocarcin V
- Mitobronitol
- Mitomycins
- Mitosene
- Nitrogen mustards
- Pingyangmycin
- Plicamycin
- Procarbazine
- Temozolomide
Pyrimidine antagonists
- Azacitidine
- Capecitabine
- Carmofur
- Cytarabine
- Decitabine
- Floxuridine
- Fluorouracil
- Gemcitabine
- Tegafur
- Tegafur/gimeracil/oteracil
- Tegafur/uracil
RNA polymerase inhibitors
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytarabine
Also known as 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine, AR3, ATC code L01BC01, ATCvet code QL01BC01, Alexan, Ara C, Ara-C, Arabinofuranosylcytosine, Arabitin, Arafcyt, Cytarbel, Cytosar, Cytosar-U, Cytosine arabinoside, Depocyt, Depocyte, Erpalfa, Iretin, Spongocytidine, Tarabine, Udicil.
, SAMHD1, Sponge, Stomatitis, Subcutaneous administration, Tectitethya crypta, Thrombocytopenia, Unconsciousness, University of California, Berkeley, Upjohn, WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.