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fludarabine phosphate
The phosphate salt of a fluorinated nucleotide antimetabolite analog of the antiviral agent vidarabine (ara-A) with antineoplastic activity. Fludarabine phosphate is rapidly dephosphorylated to 2-fluoro-ara-A and then phosphorylated intracellularly by deoxycytidine kinase to the active triphosphate, 2-fluoro-ara-ATP. This metabolite may inhibit DNA polymerase alpha, ribonucleotide reductase and DNA primase, thereby interrupting DNA synthesis and inhibiting tumor cell growth. Check for active clinical trials or closed clinical trials using this agent. (NCI Thesaurus)
| US brand name: | | Fludara | | | | Foreign brand name: | | Beneflur | | | | Abbreviation: | | 2-F-ara-AMP | | | | Chemical structure names: | | - 9H-purin-6-amine, 2-fluoro-9-(5-O-phosphono-.beta.-D-arabinofuranosyl)
- fludarabine-5'-monophosphate
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