Mycophenolate mofetil, an inhibitor of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase, causes a paradoxical elevation of GTP in erythrocytes of renal transplant patients

Clinical Science

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-68

  Goldsmith, David ^a   Carrey, Elizabeth A ^a   Edbury, Stephen ^a   Smolenski, Ryszard T ^b   Jagodzinski, Piotr ^b   Simmonds, H Anne ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte; GTP; Immunosuppression; Inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase; Mycophenolate

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INOSINATE DEHYDROGENASE; INOSINATE DEHYDROGENASE INHIBITOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NUCLEOTIDE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IMP DEHYDROGENASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 3142720312     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS20030331     Document Type: Article

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