antimetabolite

C26870
concept

An antimetabolite is a drug that mimics natural cellular metabolites to interfere with DNA or RNA synthesis, thereby inhibiting cell growth and division, commonly used in cancer and autoimmune disease treatment.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
chemotherapy agent 2
antifolate 1
antimetabolite canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: antimetabolite
Generated description
An antimetabolite is a drug that mimics natural cellular metabolites to interfere with DNA or RNA synthesis, thereby inhibiting cell growth and division, commonly used in cancer and autoimmune disease treatment.

Instances (4)

Instance Via concept surface
Xeloda
methotrexate antimetabolite drug
pyrazinamide
surface form: Pyrazinamide
nicotinamide analog
Abraxane chemotherapy agent