Antimetabolites
What are Antimetabolites?
Antimetabolites are drugs that interfere with one or more enzymes or their reactions that are necessary for DNA synthesis. They affect DNA synthesis by acting as a substitute to the actual metabolites that would be used in the normal metabolism (for example antifolates interfere with the use of folic acid).
Antimetabolites are drugs used in cancer chemotherapy. Cancer cells divide more rapidly compared to normal cells so antimetabolites affect cancer cell replication more than they affect normal cell replication.
List of Antimetabolites
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See also
Medical conditions treated or associated with antimetabolites:
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia
- Anal Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer, Metastatic
- Breast Cancer, Palliative
- Cancer
- Cervical Cancer
- Choriocarcinoma
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
- Colorectal Cancer
- Dermatomyositis
- Esophageal Carcinoma
- Graft Versus Host Disease
- Hairy Cell Leukemia
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Leukemia
- Liver Metastasis in Adenocarcinoma
- Lymphoma
- Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
- Meningeal Leukemia
- Meningitis, Lymphomatous
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Mycosis Fungoides
- Myelodysplastic Syndrome
- Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
- Neoplastic Diseases
- Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Ovarian Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma
- Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Solid Tumors
- Stem Cell Transplant Conditioning
- Stomach Cancer
- Systemic Sclerosis
- Trophoblastic Disease
Further information
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