Adenosine mediates the antiinflammatory
✍
Bruce N. Cronstein; M. Carmen Montesinos; Edwin Chan
📂
Article
📅
2001
🏛
John Wiley and Sons
🌐
English
⚖ 61 KB
## Abstract Methotrexate remains the mainstay of therapy for rheumatoid arthritis yet its mechanism of action remains unclear. Recent work from our laboratory indicates that methotrexate promotes increased adenosine release from cells and tissues and that the anti‐inflammatory actions of methotrexa