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Bleomycin
An anticancer antibiotic discovered in Japan in the 1960s by Hamao Umezawa in the bacterium Streptomyces verticillus and approved in the United States in 1973: it is used for testicular and ovarian cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. This family brings together the active ingredient and pharmacopoeial impurities.
Did you know?During fermentation the bacterium makes it bound to a copper atom, in a blue-coloured form; inside cells it binds mainly to iron instead and, with the help of oxygen, breaks DNA.
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EDQM standards 1
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
