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.

Source:MULTUM

Azathioprine

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.

Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer

azathioprine

Immunosuppressive antimetabolite.

Source:AHFS

cyclophosphamide

Antineoplastic agent and immunosuppressant; nitrogen mustard-derivative alkylating agent.

Source:AHFS

Cyclophosphamide

Cyclophosphamide is an anticancer (antineoplastic) agent. It also acts as a suppressor of the immune system.

Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer

methylprednisolone

Synthetic glucocorticoid; minimal mineralocorticoid activity.

Source:AHFS

mycophenolate mofetil (oral/injection)

Mycophenolate mofetil 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.

Source:MULTUM

mycophenolate

Immunosuppressive agent. Mycophenolate mofetil is a prodrug that is hydrolyzed in vivo to mycophenolic acid, the pharmacologically active metabolite. Mycophenolate sodium delayed-release tablets release the active moiety, mycophenolic acid, in the small intestine.

Source:AHFS

Mycophenolate Mofetil

Mycophenolate mofetil (brand name Cell Cept) is a drug that has been shown to inhibit tumor growth in rodents, and that may prove useful in treating tumors in humans. Purpose In August 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of mycophenolate mofetil in patients undergoing liver transplants, and the drug is used primarily to ease the acceptance of a transplanted organ by a recipient.

Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer

cyclophosphamide (oral/injection)

Cyclophosphamide is a cancer (chemotherapeutic) medication. Cyclophosphamide interferes with the growth of cancer cells and slows their growth and spread in the body.

Source:MULTUM

prednisolone

Prednisolone is in a class of drugs called steroids. Prednisolone prevents the release of substances in the body that cause inflammation.

Source:MULTUM

prednisolone (systemic)

Synthetic glucocorticoid; minimal mineralocorticoid activity.

Source:AHFS

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