Antimetabolites
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Antimetabolites are structural analogues of normal metabolites (folate, purines, pyrimidines) that masquerade as the real substrate, jam nucleotide synthesis or DNA replication, and thereby kill rapidly dividing cells. They are classically S-phase (cell-cycle) specific and form the backbone of leukaemia, GI cancer, and autoimmune-disease therapy — a perennial NEET PG pharmacology favourite for its mechanism-overlap t…
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