"Dideoxynucleosides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Nucleosides that have two hydroxy groups removed from the sugar moiety. The majority of these compounds have broad-spectrum antiretroviral activity due to their action as antimetabolites. The nucleosides are phosphorylated intracellularly to their 5'-triphosphates and act as chain-terminating inhibitors of viral reverse transcription.
| Descriptor ID |
D015224
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D13.570.230.500
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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