decitabine

Chemical structures of deoxycytidine, a building block of DNA, gemcitabine and decitabine, antimetabolite drugs that are used to treat cancer.

Meaning

Noun

5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (trademark Dacogen), a cytosine analogue that hypomethylates DNA by inhibiting DNA methyltransferase.

Origin

From deoxy- + -citabine.

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