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methotrexate, drug used in halting the growth of actively proliferating tissues. Introduced in the 1950s, it is used in the treatment of leukemia leukemia , cancerous disorder of the blood-forming tissues (bone marrow, lymphatics, liver, spleen) characterized by excessive production of immature or mature leukocytes (white blood cells; see blood) and consequently a crowding-out of red blood cells and platelets.
..... Click the link for more information. , psoriasis psoriasis , occasionally acute but usually chronic and recurrent inflammation of the skin. The exact cause is unknown, but the disease appears to be an inherited, possibly autoimmune disorder that causes the overproduction of skin cells.
..... Click the link for more information. , and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's, any cancer of the lymphoid tissue (see lymphatic system) in which the Reed-Sternberg cells characteristic of Hodgkin's disease (the other category of lymphoma) are not present.
..... Click the link for more information. . By binding to an enzyme enzyme, biological catalyst. The term enzyme comes from zymosis, the Greek word for fermentation, a process accomplished by yeast cells and long known to the brewing industry, which occupied the attention of many 19th-century chemists.
..... Click the link for more information. that controls the metabolism of folic acid, methotrexate interferes with synthesis of nucleic acids nucleic acid, any of a group of organic substances found in the chromosomes of living cells and viruses that play a central role in the storage and replication of hereditary information and in the expression of this information through protein synthesis.
..... Click the link for more information. and therefore with tissue cell reproduction. Because of its immunosuppressive qualities, it is also used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis arthritis, painful inflammation of a joint or joints of the body, usually producing heat and redness. There are many kinds of arthritis. In its various forms, arthritis disables more people than any other chronic disorder.
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methotrexate [‚meth·ə′trek‚sāt]

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No references found	Its manufacturers have released the findings of 83% of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients after two years compared to 66% of patients treated with a placebo and MTX. A DRUG firm announced more [...] by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) MTX is also useful as an immunosuppressant and anti-inflammatory agent, even at low doses, and thus has potential in controlling recalcitrant psoriasis and adult rheumatoid arthritis, in long-term therapy. Novel methothrexate-based topical therapies for effective treatment ... by Dubey, Vaibhav; Mishra, Dinesh; Nahar, Manoj; Jain, Narendra Kumar / Clinical Dermatology CH-1504, a non-metabolized antifolate, is engineered to provide the same potent efficacy as MTX but without the side effects caused by the metabolic breakdown of MTX into by-products that are believed to play a significant role in the liver and kidney toxicities and tolerability related side effects associated with chronic therapy. CHELSEA THERAPEUTICS INITIATES PHASE II TRIAL OF CH-1504 by Biotech Business	MT/sec MTA Mtavari MTBE MTBF MTBSO mtc mtDNA MTF MTI Mtiuls MTOPS MTOS MTP MTS MTSAT Satellite-Based Augmentation System Mtsensk Mtskheta MTSO MTTF MTTR MTU MTV MTV-1 Mtwara MTX Mu mu factor mu meson mu phage Mu'awiyah I Mu'tazilah mu-Law MU-Prolog Mu–oz-Rivera Day MUA Muallaqat Muammar Al Qaddafi Muar Muawiya Muawiyah I Mubarak Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, Muhammad Hosni Mubariakov, Arslan Mubariakov, Arslan Kotlyakhmetovich muc-, muci-, muco- MUCAL Mucchi, Gabriele Mucedinaceae Mucha, Alphonse	Mtwara Mtwara (city) MTWC MTWCS MTWD MTWDA MTWFA MTWG MTWGB MTWH MTWHF MTWIB MTWM MTWP MTWR MTWRAPS MTWRF MTWS MTWSI MTWT MTWTF MTWTFSS MTWU MTWY MTX MTX + MP + CTX MTX(ALPHA) MTX-CH MTXC MTXE MTXM MTxSINR MTXX MTY MTY-LTT MTYAA MTYC MTYDP MTYEWTK MTYK MTYP MTYRE MTZ MTZE mu mu mu mu mu Mu Alpha Alumni Association Mu Alpha Theta mu chain disease Mu er

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Its manufacturers have released the findings of 83% of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients after two years compared to 66% of patients treated with a placebo and MTX.

A DRUG firm announced more [...] by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)

MTX is also useful as an immunosuppressant and anti-inflammatory agent, even at low doses, and thus has potential in controlling recalcitrant psoriasis and adult rheumatoid arthritis, in long-term therapy.

Novel methothrexate-based topical therapies for effective treatment ... by Dubey, Vaibhav; Mishra, Dinesh; Nahar, Manoj; Jain, Narendra Kumar / Clinical Dermatology

CH-1504, a non-metabolized antifolate, is engineered to provide the same potent efficacy as MTX but without the side effects caused by the metabolic breakdown of MTX into by-products that are believed to play a significant role in the liver and kidney toxicities and tolerability related side effects associated with chronic therapy.

CHELSEA THERAPEUTICS INITIATES PHASE II TRIAL OF CH-1504 by Biotech Business

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