deoxycytidine analogue TAS-109

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-012981",
  "term": "deoxycytidine analogue TAS-109",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "An analogue of the nucleoside deoxycytidine with potential antineoplastic activity. Nucleoside analogue TAS-109 is incorporated into DNA and directly inhibits the activity of DNA polymerase, which may result in inhibition of DNA replication and cell cycle arrest in the S and G2/M phases, DNA fragmentation, and tumor cell apoptosis.",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/deoxycytidine-analogue-tas-109/"
}