Side effects of methotrexate therapy for rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review

W Wang, H Zhou, L Liu - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Methotrexate (MTX) is used as an anchor disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs
(DMARDs) in treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) because of its potent efficacy and tolerability …

Renal drug transporters and drug interactions

A Ivanyuk, F Livio, J Biollaz, T Buclin - Clinical pharmacokinetics, 2017 - Springer
Transporters in proximal renal tubules contribute to the disposition of numerous drugs.
Furthermore, the molecular mechanisms of tubular secretion have been progressively …

How does methotrexate work?

AM Alqarni, MP Zeidler - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Developed over 70 years ago as an anti-folate chemotherapy agent, methotrexate (MTX) is
a WHO 'essential medicine'that is now widely employed as a first-line treatment in auto …

Hepatotoxicity related to antirheumatic drugs

GP Aithal - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2011 - nature.com
Antirheumatic agents are among commonly used drugs associated with adverse hepatic
reactions. Sulfasalazine and azathioprine are among the most important causes of acute …

Folate‐targeted nanoparticles show efficacy in the treatment of inflammatory arthritis

TP Thomas, SN Goonewardena… - Arthritis & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To investigate the uptake of a poly (amidoamine) dendrimer (generation 5 [G5])
nanoparticle covalently conjugated to polyvalent folic acid (FA) as the targeting ligand into …

Clinical characteristics and risk factors for low dose methotrexate toxicity: a cohort of 28 patients

S Kivity, Y Zafrir, R Loebstein, R Pauzner… - Autoimmunity …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective Low dose (10–25 mg/week) methotrexate is widely used for the
management of systemic inflammatory diseases, and is considered to be relatively safe …

Three decades of low-dose methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis: can we predict toxicity?

VC Romão, A Lima, M Bernardes, H Canhao… - Immunologic …, 2014 - Springer
Methotrexate (MTX) is the anchor disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) in
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment. It is used in monotherapy and/or in combination with …

An update on methotrexate

J Braun, R Rau - Current opinion in rheumatology, 2009 - journals.lww.com
In this review, we especially cover the following themes: new clinical studies on the use of
MTX in RA, the use of MTX in other rheumatic conditions, prediction of response to MTX …

Genetic polymorphisms in key methotrexate pathway genes are associated with response to treatment in rheumatoid arthritis patients

SA Owen, SL Hider, P Martin, IN Bruce… - The …, 2013 - nature.com
We investigated the effect of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning 10
methotrexate (MTX) pathway genes, namely AMPD1, ATIC, DHFR, FPGS, GGH, ITPA …

[HTML][HTML] Old drugs, old problems: where do we stand in prediction of rheumatoid arthritis responsiveness to methotrexate and other synthetic DMARDs?

VC Romão, H Canhão, JE Fonseca - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Methotrexate (MTX) is the central drug in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and
other immune mediated inflammatory diseases. It is widely used either in monotherapy or in …