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What is a nucleoside?

What is a nucleoside? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is covalently attached to a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA). When the phosphate group is covalently attached to the pentose sugar, it forms a nucleotide.
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Clofarabine, a type of drug called a purine nucleoside antimetabolite, works by blocking the production and repair of DNA, the building blocks of genes.
Neither of the two NIH scientists knew the name or chemical compound of AZT at the time or that it was a nucleoside analogue.
Previously treated with three classes of antiretrovirals: nucleoside analogues, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors.
Nonpolar nucleoside isosteres have proven broadly useful in the study of DNA replication by a wide variety of polymerase enzymes.
In January 2001 the Food and Drug Administration issued a special warning to pregnant women taking nucleoside analogues ddI and d4T after three women died.
We assessed the clearance of endogenous pseudouridine in humans to evaluate the potential use of this modified nucleoside as a marker of glomerular filtration rate.

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