The purine path to chemotherapy
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Bioscience Reports
- Vol. 9 (5) , 509-529
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01119794
Abstract
Antimetabolites of purine metabolism have found a use as anti-leukaemic, antiprotozoal and antiviral drugs, in immunosuppression and transplantation, and in gout and hyperuricemia. Their mechanisms of action are reviewed.Keywords
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