Healthconcerns “Articles on cancer” is going to add a complete pharmacology and the medicinal chemistry of the Anti-cancer drugs. So here is the first one as “6-MERCAPTOPURINE” 6-Mercaptopurine Chemical structure Chemically 6-Mercaptopurine is analog of adenine and hypoxanthine Mechanism of action 6-Mercaptupurine is converted to 6- Mercaptopurine nucleosides leading to De novo inhibition of purine nucleotide synthesis. ¨ 6-Mercaptopurine competes with hypoxanthine and guanine for the enzyme hypoxanthine/guanine phosphoribosyltransferase and itself converted to thioinosinic acid ...
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