Sentences with phrase «drug azacitidine»
The drug azacitidine, for instance, treats leukemia in this manner.
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The researchers treated 63 cancer cell lines (26 breast, 14 colorectal and 23 ovarian) with low - dose 5 - azacitidine (AZA), an FDA - approved drug for myelodysplastic syndrome, that reverses epigenetic changes by stripping off the methyl group that silences the gene.
Azacitidine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating all myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) subtypes.
The drugs, azacitidine (AZA) and decitabine (DAC), are epigenetic - targeted drugs and work to correct cancer - causing alterations that modify DNA.
After decades of additional research, azacitidine (Vidaza) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 for treating myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.