what is deoxyribonuclease
Powered by JRank. Deoxyribonuclease (pronounced dee-oxy-rybo-noo-clee-ase), or recombinant human deoxyribonuclease 1 (rhDNase or DNase), is an experimental drug used to treat cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited lung disease. People with CF experience chronic (constant) and increasingly worse symptoms throughout their lives.
Deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I, encoded by DNASE1) is a specific endonuclease facilitating chromatin breakdown during apoptosis.