 Leucovorin
"Leucovorin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The active metabolite of FOLIC ACID. Leucovorin is used principally as its calcium salt as an antidote to folic acid antagonists which block the conversion of folic acid to folinic acid.
| Descriptor ID |
D002955
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.438.733.631.400.800.350.450 D08.211.840.300.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Leucovorin- Leucovorin
- Leukovorum
- Leukovorin
- Folinic Acid
- Acid, Folinic
- Folinic Acid-SF
- Folinic Acid SF
N(5)-Formyltetrahydrofolate- N(5)-Formyltetrahydrofolate
- 5-Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamate
- 5 Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamate
- 5-Formyltetrahydrofolate
- 5 Formyltetrahydrofolate
Citrovorum Factor- Citrovorum Factor
- Factor, Citrovorum
- Calcium Leucovorin
- Leucovorin, Calcium
- Calcium Folinate
- Folinate, Calcium
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leucovorin" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Mavros MN, Moris D, Karanicolas PJ, Katz MHG, O'Reilly EM, Pawlik TM. Clinical Trials of Systemic Chemotherapy for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: A Review. JAMA Surg. 2021 07 01; 156(7):663-672.
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Wolfe AR, Prabhakar D, Yildiz VO, Cloyd JM, Dillhoff M, Abushahin L, Alexandra Diaz D, Miller ED, Chen W, Frankel WL, Noonan A, Williams TM. Neoadjuvant-modified FOLFIRINOX vs nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine for borderline resectable or locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients who achieved surgical resection. Cancer Med. 2020 07; 9(13):4711-4723.
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