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adenosine

[ə′den·ə‚sēn]
(biochemistry)
C10H13N5O4 A nucleoside composed of adenine andD-ribose.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Dado que la deficiencia de ADA es poco comun, tomara mucho mas tiempo el establecer los beneficios a largo plazo del PEG-ADA. Sin embargo; en los diez anos que se ha utilizado, la PEG-ADA ha probado ser efectiva para revocar el panorama clinico lamentable asociado con el SCID-ADA.
El desarrollo y la utilizacion de PEG-ADA han proporcionado una importante opcion alternativa para el tratamiento de pacientes con deficiencia de ADA, puesto que la desintoxicacion metabolica rapida que ofrece por el reemplazo de alto nivel de la enzima, permite la estabilizacion clinica de los pacientes.
Adenosin deaminasa en el sindrome de inmunodeficiencia combinada severa
Deoxynucleotides are undetectable in healthy individuals, and fall almost to reference values in patients undergoing gene therapy and/or PEG-ADA treatment.
Capillary electrophoresis in diagnosis and monitoring of adenosine deaminase deficiency
PEG-ADA - A drug that has proven very helpful to some patients who suffer from a lack of the enzyme adenosine deaminase.
Curing disease through human gene therapy
Meanwhile, Blaese says, other young ADA-deficient patients are in line for the current protocol, which may eventually undergo revision to allow the researchers to infuse more cells and take patients off PEG-ADA.
First human gene-therapy test begun
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