Mycophenolic acid in Rheumatology: mechanisms of action and severe adverse events
MPA is clinically administered as morfolinoethyl ester (mycophenolate mofetil, MMF) or, more recently, as a salt (enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium). It is a fermentation product of Penicillium brevicompactum and other analogue fungi, identified by Gosio in 1893 as a weak antibacterial agent; in 1...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2011-06-01
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Series: | Reumatismo |
Online Access: | http://www.reumatismo.org/index.php/reuma/article/view/469 |