"Folic Acid Antagonists" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Inhibitors of the enzyme, dihydrofolate reductase (TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE), which converts dihydrofolate (FH2) to tetrahydrofolate (FH4). They are frequently used in cancer chemotherapy. (From AMA, Drug Evaluations Annual, 1994, p2033)
| Descriptor ID |
D005493
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.519.389.350
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| Concept/Terms |
Folic Acid Antagonists- Folic Acid Antagonists
- Acid Antagonists, Folic
- Antagonists, Folic Acid
- Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitors
- Inhibitors, Dihydrofolate Reductase
- Reductase Inhibitors, Dihydrofolate
- Antifolates
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Folic Acid Antagonists" by people in Profiles.
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Co-occurrence of idiopathic granulomatous hepatitis and primary biliary cirrhosis. Dig Dis Sci. 2014 Nov; 59(11):2831-5.
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Randomized phase 2b study of pralatrexate versus erlotinib in patients with stage IIIB/IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after failure of prior platinum-based therapy. J Thorac Oncol. 2012 Jun; 7(6):1041-8.
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Pralatrexate with vitamin supplementation in patients with previously treated, advanced non-small cell lung cancer: safety and efficacy in a phase 1 trial. J Thorac Oncol. 2011 Nov; 6(11):1915-22.
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Genetic and environmental determinants of plasma total homocysteine levels: impact of population-wide folate fortification. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2011 Jul; 21(7):426-31.
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Phase II trial of pemetrexed and gemcitabine in chemotherapy-naive malignant pleural mesothelioma. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Mar 20; 26(9):1465-71.
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Phase II open-label study of oral piritrexim in patients with advanced carcinoma of the urothelium who have experienced failure with standard chemotherapy. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2008 Mar; 6(1):31-5.
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Phase II trial of oral aminopterin for adults and children with refractory acute leukemia. Clin Cancer Res. 2005 Nov 15; 11(22):8089-96.
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Triazine Inhibits Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites in vitro and in vivo. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Aug; 49(8):3463-7.
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Phase II study of pemetrexed with and without folic acid and vitamin B12 as front-line therapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma. J Clin Oncol. 2003 Apr 15; 21(8):1556-61.
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Pemetrexed in pancreatic cancer. Semin Oncol. 2002 Dec; 29(6 Suppl 18):49-53.