Crohn's Disease of Small Bowel : Drugs
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Azathioprine is a non-specific immunosuppressant antimetabolite that can be used as a chemotherapeutic agent to inhibit lymphocyte purine metabolism. In the United States, azathioprine is also known by the brand name Imuran.
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Immunosuppressive antimetabolite.
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Azathioprine lowers your body's immune system. The immune system helps your body
fight infections. The immune system can also fight or "reject" a transplanted organ such as a
liver or kidney. This is because the immune system treats the new organ as an invader.
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Sulfasalazine affects a substance in the body that causes inflammation, tissue damage, and
diarrhea.
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Anti-inflammatory agent with GI tract activity; prodrug of mesalamine.
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Budesonide is a steroid. It prevents the release of substances in the body that cause
inflammation..
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Budesonide is a steroid. It prevents the release of substances in the body that cause
inflammation.
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Mesalamine affects a substance in the body that causes inflammation, tissue damage, and
diarrhea.
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The 5-amino derivative of salicyclic acid; a GI anti-inflammatory agent.
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Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic in a group of drugs called fluoroquinolones. Ciprofloxacin
fights bacteria in the body.
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Antibacterial; fluoroquinolone.
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Balsalazide reduces the actions of chemicals in the body that cause inflammation in the
colon (bowel).
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Hydrocortisone is a steroid medicine that reduces inflammation in the body.
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Immunosuppressive agent and disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD); cyclic polypeptide.
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Cylosporine is an immunosuppressant drug used to prevent rejection of kidney, liver, and heart transplants, to prevent graft-versus-host disease in patients receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplants, and for severe autoimmune diseases that are resistant to corticosteroids and other therapy. Cyclosporine, also spelled as cyclosporin and ciclosporin, takes several brand names in the United States, including Neoral, Sandimmun, Sandimmune, and Sang Cya.
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Olsalazine affects substances in the body that cause inflammation, tissue damage, and
diarrhea.
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Synthetic, nonhalogenated corticosteroid; potent glucocorticoid and weak mineralocorticoid activity.
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Glucocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex; also exhibits mineralocorticoid activity.
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Hydrocortisone is in a class of drugs called steroids. Hydrocortisone prevents the release
of substances in the body that cause inflammation.
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Biologic response modifier and disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD); chimeric human-murine monoclonal antibody that blocks the biologic activity of tumor necrosis factor (TNF, TNF-α).
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Methylprednisolone is in a class of drugs called steroids. Methylprednisolone prevents the
release of substances in the body that cause inflammation.
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Mercaptopurine is a cancer medication that interferes with the growth of cancer cells and
slows their growth and spread in the body.
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Antineoplastic and immunosuppressive agent; purine antagonist.
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Mercaptopurine is a medicine used to prevent the formation and spread of cancer cells. Purpose Mercaptopurine is used as part of the consolidation and maintenance treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelocytic leukemia (AML).
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Mesalamine affects a substance in the body that causes inflammation, tissue damage, and
diarrhea.
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Antineoplastic agent and immunosuppressant; folic acid antagonist.
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Methotrexate is a folic acid derivative that interferes with folic acid metabolism (folate antagonist). It is a cytotoxic agent (a chemical that is directly toxic to cells) with multiple characteristics and may be described as an antimetabolite, antineoplastic, and immunosuppressant.
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Methotrexate injection interferes with the growth of certain cells of the body, especially
cells that reproduce quickly, such as cancer cells, bone marrow cells, and skin cells.
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Synthetic glucocorticoid; minimal mineralocorticoid activity.
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Metronidazole is an antibiotic. It fights bacteria in your body.
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Antibacterial and antiprotozoal;. nitroimidazole derivative.
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Biologic response modifier; a recombinant humanized anti-α4-integrin monoclonal antibody.
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Anti-inflammatory agent with GI tract activity; a 5-aminosalicylic acid derivative and a prodrug of mesalamine.
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Synthetic glucocorticoid; minimal mineralocorticoid activity.
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Immunosuppressive agent.
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Infliximab reduces the effects of a substance in the body that can cause inflammation.
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Methotrexate interferes with the growth of certain cells of the body, especially cells that
reproduce quickly, such as cancer cells, bone marrow cells, and skin cells.
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Cyclosporine lowers your body's immune system. The immune system helps your body
fight infections. The immune system can also fight or "reject" a transplanted organ such as a
liver or kidney. This is because the immune system treats the new organ as an invader.
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Prednisone is in a class of drugs called steroids. Prednisone prevents the release of
substances in the body that cause inflammation.
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Prodrug converted in vivo to sulfapyridine (a sulfonamide anti-infective) and 5-aminosalicylic acid (mesalamine; anti-inflammatory agent).
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Tacrolimus lowers your body's immune system. The immune system helps your body
fight infections. The immune system can also fight or "reject" a transplanted organ such as a
liver or kidney. This is because the immune system treats the new organ as an invader.
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Tacrolimus belongs to a group of medicines known as immunosuppressive agents. It is used primarily to lower the body ' s natural immunity in order to prevent the rejection of organ transplants and to prevent graft-versus-host disease .
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Biologic response modifier; has immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antiangiogenic, and sedative and hypnotic activities.
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A drug known to cause severe birth defects that was never approved for use in the United States, but widely available elsewhere in the 1950s and 60s as a sedative and for treatment of nausea during pregnancy. Thalidomide was sold in Europe, notably West Germany and Britain, in 1958.
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Thalidomide, which is also known as Thalomid, is a drug used to fight aggressive cancers, particularly those that have metastasized, or spread. Purpose There are many studies, either in progress or recently completed, that suggest thalidomide can slow or stop the spread of cancer of the brain, breast, colon and prostate, as well as multiple myeloma (a cancer of the marrow of the bone).
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Thalidomide affects the immune system. It helps promote immune responses to prevent
inflammation in the body.
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Natalizumab is a monoclonal antibody that affects the actions of the body's immune
system. Monoclonal antibodies are made to target and destroy only certain cells in the body.
This may help to protect healthy cells from damage.
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