Mycophenolic acid in Rheumatology: mechanisms of action and severe adverse events

• Main Authors: G.F. Ferraccioli (Author), M. De Santis (Author), G. Zizzo (Author)
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• Udgivet: PAGEPress Publications, 2011-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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MPA is clinically administered as morfolinoethyl ester (mycophenolate mofetil, MMF) or, more recently, as a salt (enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium). It is a fermentation product of Penicillium brevicompactum and other analogue fungi, identified by Gosio in 1893 as a weak antibacterial agent; in 1...