Therapeutic monitoring of thiopurine metabolites : validation of an HPLC method and preliminary findings from a small cohort of Malaysian patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Thiopurine therapy of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is guided by the relative blood concentrations 6-thioguanine nucleotides (6-TGN) and 6-methylmercaptopurine (6-MMP). However, their action is altered by in vivo phosphorylation, and this is not normally measured in clinical studies. Hence, we tr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19757/1/20.pdf |