Sulfasalazine Inhibits the Absorption of Folates in Ulcerative Colitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 305, Issue 25, 1981, Pages 1513-1517

  Halsted, Charles H ^a   Gandhi, Gautam ^a   Tamura, Tsunenobu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SMALL INTESTINE; THERAPY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VITAMIN ABSORPTION;

ADULT; AGED; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PTEROYLPOLYGLUTAMIC ACIDS; SULFASALAZINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0019785995     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198112173052506     Document Type: Article

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