Anti-inflammatory mechanisms of methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis
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- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Vol. 60 (8) , 729-735
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.60.8.729
Abstract
Finally, four well designed, blinded, placebo controlled studies published in 1984 and 1985 introduced the use of MTX in the treatment of RA.9-12This publication has 98 references indexed in Scilit:
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