Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards
Levofolinate
The active (6S, levorotatory) form of folinic acid, a derivative of folic acid: it protects healthy cells after high doses of methotrexate and boosts fluorouracil against colorectal cancer. It was approved in the United States in 2008. This family brings together pharmacopoeial impurities and labelled standards.
Did you know?Folinic acid was discovered in 1948 as a growth factor the bacterium Leuconostoc citrovorum cannot do without: that is why it was first called 'citrovorum factor'.
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