Talk:Nucleoside
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · history · refresh · how to use this template) Rated "high" as highschool/SAT biology content. - tameeria 20:15, 28 April 2007 (UTC) |
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I did not remove information that said that nucleoside triphosphates are the major energy products of living systems' energy pathways (or something to that effect). I believe the correct product is nucleoTIDE triphosphates such as ATP. But I am only a 12th-grade AP Biology student, so I could very well be wrong; please correct me if so.
Fist year Undergraduate in biochemistry states,
NucleoSIDE is NOT a nucleoTIDE Nucleoside are any compounds as guanosine or adenosine that consists of a Purine or Pyrimidine base combined with deoxyribose or ribose and is commonly found in DNA or RNA
The user above me forgot to sign his/her work. I put a horizontal line in order to distinguish mine from theirs. It seems that this article is quite lacking. What is the normal role and function of nucleosides? What are they used for in research and in medicine? Are any available as medications? Aren't nucleosides used in the treatment of AIDS? Plus, don't nucleosides kill cells? I linked to this article from the leukemia article, but it doesn't tell me any more information of use to understanding leukemia treatment options. All I find is a chemical description and overview, just science in a vaccuum, nothing that really relates to anything I am trying to understand.--65.190.103.147 06:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
