[The reason for this is thought to be that in cell lines of solid tumors the expression of cytidine deaminase, an enzyme that degrades cytarabine, is high, whereas the expression of deoxycytidine kinase (dCK), which phosphorylates cytarabine (a prodrug), is weak.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE