Genetic determinants of methotrexate toxicity in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a study of polymorphisms affecting methotrexate transport and folate metabolism
✍ Scribed by Petra Bohanec Grabar; Dušan Logar; Boris Lestan; Vita Dolžan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 269 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-6970
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## Objective. To investigate the expression of folate receptors (FR) and reduced folate carrier (RFC) and determine their relevance to methotrexate (MTX) transport in synovial mononuclear cells (SMC) from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. Levels of FR and RFC messenger RNA (mRNA) w
SUDAAN 10 (Research Triangle Institute) and SAS 9.2 (SAS Institute) were used for the statistical analyses of data. The results from the NIS show that there were 788 cases of PCP among hospitalized patients with RA in the US from 1996 to 2007. Patients were mostly older (73.5% were ages 50-80 years