"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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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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