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

Preferred term

Vidarabine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 9 beta Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • 9-beta-Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • 9 beta D Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • 9-beta-D-Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • Adenine Arabinoside
  • alpha Ara A
  • alpha-Ara A
  • alpha D Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • alpha-D-Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • Ara A
  • Ara-A
  • Arabinofuranosyladenine
  • Arabinoside, Adenine
  • Arabinosyladenine
  • beta Ara A
  • beta-Ara A

Note

  • an antiviral & antimetabolite

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 79; was ARABINOFURANOSYLADENINE 1977-78, was ARABINOFURANOSYLADENINE see under PURINE NUCLEOSIDES 1975-76

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014740

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