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Trifluridine

In the anticancer therapy, trifluridine acts as a thymidine-based nucleoside metabolic inhibitor that gets incorporated into DNA of cancer cells following cell uptake to aberrate DNA function during cell … Trifluridine is a fluorinated pyrimidine nucleoside that is structurally related to [idoxuridine] [A35271].

Nusinersen

An antisense oligonucleotide that induces survival motor neuron (SMN) protein expression, it was approved by the U.S. … FDA in December, 2016 as Spinraza for the treatment of children and adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). It is adminstrated as direct intrathecal injection.

Busulfan

Busulfan is a bifunctional alkylating agent, having a selective immunosuppressive effect on bone marrow. It is not a structural analog of the nitrogen mustards. … According to the Fourth Annual Report on Carcinogens (NTP 85-002, 1985), busulfan is listed as a known carcinogen.

Turoctocog alfa pegol

The essential difference between turoctocog alfa and N8-GP, however, is the specific attachment of a 40-kDa polyethylene glycol (PEG) group to a specific _O_-glycan in the truncated B-domain of the general … Turoctocog alfa pegol is a pegylated version of [turoctocog alfa]. Novo Nordisk's brand name Esperoct (turoctocog alfa pegol, N8-GP) was approved by the US FDA on February 19, 2019.

Trastuzumab

Produced in CHO cell cultures, trastuzumab is a recombinant IgG1 kappa, humanized monoclonal antibody [A40276] that selectively binds with high affinity in a cell-based assay (Kd = 5 nM) to the extracellular … Herzuma (trastuzumab-pkrb) is a biosimilar drug approved in December 2018 for the treatment of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer.

Levothyroxine

[F4633] T₄ and T₃ act on nearly every cell of the body, but have a particularly strong effect on the cardiac system. … [F4636,A35722] In response to Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) release by the pituitary gland, a normally functioning thyroid gland will produce and secrete T₄, which is then converted through

Tagraxofusp

a myeloid malignancy in the dendritic cell lineage. … It is a fusion protein composed of a human interleukin-3 (IL-3) that is genetically fused to the catalytic and translocation domains of truncated diphtheria toxin (DT) produced in _Escherichia coli_.

Ferric chloride

Cefiderocol

[A189150] A concern noted in the trial was a 0.3% higher rate of all cause mortality, the cause of which has not been determined. … Cefiderocol was granted designation as a Qualified Infectious Disease Product and granted priority review status by the FDA on November 14, 2019.

Alglucosidase alfa

Aglucosidase alfa is produced by recombinant DNA technology in a Chinese hamster ovary cell line. … It is used for the treatment of Pompe disease (GAA deficiency) in infants and pediatric patients.