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Methotrexate

"Methotrexate" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An antineoplastic antimetabolite with immunosuppressant properties. It is an inhibitor of TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE and prevents the formation of tetrahydrofolate, necessary for synthesis of thymidylate, an essential component of DNA.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Methotrexate" by people in this website by year, and whether "Methotrexate" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 64 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2017
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