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Do you recommend patients hold folic acid on the day they take methotrexate?

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Do you recommend patients hold folic acid on the day they take methotrexate?

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Rheumatology · Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
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The proposed mechanism of action (MOA) of methotrexate in rheumatic disease is not from the antimetabolite angle (given its oncologic MOA as a dihydrofolic acid reductase inhibitor), but rather as a potent anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory medication through the MOA of extracellular adenosine a...

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