Definition & Meaning | English word ARA-C
ARA-C
Definitions of ARA-C
- (pharmaceutical drug) Abbreviation of cytosine arabinoside.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ARA-C in a Sentence
- MA (chemotherapy) is an acronym for Mitoxantrone + standard-dose Ara-C (cytarabine) chemotherapy regimen.
- 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.
- DAE (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen consisting of Daunorubicin, Ara-C (cytarabine) and Etoposide.
- ADE (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen consisting of Ara-C (cytarabine), Daunorubicin and Etoposide.
- This dependency is exploited therapeutically by several chemotherapy drugs that block de novo pyrimidine synthesis, including the nucleotide analogues cytosine arabinoside (ara-C) and gemcitabine.
- Arabinofuranosyl cytidine (or ara-C): an antimetabolite that has been proven to be the most active toward AML among various cytotoxic drugs in single-drug trials; and.
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