Overview of 5-ASA in Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

There are two forms of 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) drug delivery. First, a pro-drug form in which 5-ASA, the active principal, is attached to a c.arrier molecule and released in the intestine by bacterial cleavage. An example of this is sulfasalazine, originally developed in the 1940s and found to...

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Main Author: CN Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1994-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1994/756973