"Vidarabine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D014740
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.759.590.138.900 D13.570.065.950 D13.570.583.138.900
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| Concept/Terms |
Vidarabine- Vidarabine
- beta-Ara A
- beta Ara A
- Adenine Arabinoside
- Arabinoside, Adenine
- alpha-D-Arabinofuranosyladenine
- alpha D Arabinofuranosyladenine
- Ara A
- alpha-Ara A
- alpha Ara A
- Arabinofuranosyladenine
- Arabinosyladenine
- 9-beta-D-Arabinofuranosyladenine
- 9 beta D Arabinofuranosyladenine
- 9-beta-Arabinofuranosyladenine
- 9 beta Arabinofuranosyladenine
- Ara-A
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vidarabine" by people in Profiles.
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Tanvetyanon T, Elmishad AG, Carbone M. Development of malignant mesothelioma during treatment for prolymphocytic leukemia: is asbestos or simian virus 40 a link? Anticancer Res. 2005 Jan-Feb; 25(1B):429-33.