Cytidine

nucleoside · nervous · Oral

Cytidine, a nucleoside. Precursor to CTP → CDP-choline / CDP-ethanolamine (Kennedy pathway for phospholipid synthesis). Also UTP via CTP synthase (with glutamine).…

Precursor to CTP → CDP-choline / CDP-ethanolamine (Kennedy pathway for phospholipid synthesis). Also UTP via CTP synthase (with glutamine). Uridine + cytidine are the two pyrimidine 'salvage' nucleosides.