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Ancitabine

Also known as cyclocytidine, a cyclic nucleoside that acts as a prodrug of cytarabine, studied in Japan in the 1970s against leukaemia: on its own it is almost inactive and works after turning into the parent drug. This family brings together the active ingredient.

Did you know?In aqueous solution the conversion depends only on pH: at 37 degrees and pH 7.3 about 70% turns into cytarabine within 24 hours, so the drug is released little by little and its action stays more constant.