Title : Pentoxifylline (anti-tumor necrosis factor drug): effective adjuvant therapy in the control of ocular cicatricial pemphigoid.

Pub. Date : 2011 Sep-Oct

PMID : 21279976






2 Functional Relationships(s)
Download
Sentence
Compound Name
Protein Name
Organism
1 The purpose of this randomized, controlled, comparative, blinded study was to evaluate the effectiveness of adding pentoxifylline as an anti-TNF-a drug to the well-documented therapy of steroids and cyclophosphamide in controlling OCP. Pentoxifylline tumor necrosis factor Homo sapiens
2 The study illustrates that the addition of pentoxifylline to pulse steroid cyclophosphamide therapy is an effective, safe, and economical method in controlling OCP through directly reducing TNF-a levels, with long periods of remission as detected in our 18-month follow-up period. Pentoxifylline tumor necrosis factor Homo sapiens