Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards
Folinic Acid
The active form of folic acid (5-formyltetrahydrofolate), in use since the 1950s: it protects healthy cells after high-dose methotrexate and enhances the effect of 5-fluorouracil in the treatment of colorectal cancer. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, nitrosamines and other impurities.
Did you know?It was described in 1948 as a growth factor needed by the bacterium Leuconostoc citrovorum, the 'citrovorum factor': hence its other name, leucovorin.
No product matches your search.
EDQM standards 1
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
Need a molecule you cannot find?
Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
