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506U78
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English
Etymology
From the Burroughs Wellcome internal catalog number "506U", which was extended to the unified catalog number "506U78" due the 1995 merger to form Glaxo Wellcome a few months after the drug's discovery.
Noun
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Former designation of Nelarabine; a chemotherapy prodrug used in treatment of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Alternative forms
en GW506U78
Further reading
en Pharmaceutical drugs