Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sulfa drug, C18H14N4O5S, used to treat ulcerative colitis.
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- noun A
sulfa drug used to treatrheumatoid arthritis .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Moreover, other DMARDs (such as sulfasalazine, leflunomide and immunosuppressive drugs) as well as combination therapy received increasing attention (138).
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When added to medication, such as sulfasalazine (a standard medication for IBD), omega-3 fatty acids may reduce symptoms of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis - the 2 types of IBD.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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Many prescription drugs can interfere with sperm development, most commonly cimetidine (Tagamet), sulfasalazine (Azulfidine), and nitrofurantoin (Macrobid).
A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010
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The inflammatory bowel disease drug sulfasalazine Azulfidine causes low sperm counts, decreases sperm motility, and increases the number of abnormally shaped sperm.
A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010
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If not for counseling I wouldn't have known the doc didn't mean to write for sulfadiazine, that he really wanted sulfasalazine.
Rant Alert: Attention, Pharmacists 1 Dinosaur 2008
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At first we thought it was due solely to the anti-inflammatory activity of the compound, but it turns out that sulfasalazine actually results in a reduced fungal burden.
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Wright's team looked at the effects in mice of sulfasalazine, an anti-inflammatory drug that has proven useful in treating conditions like Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
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For example, 17 days after infection, mice treated with sulfasalazine had nine times as many macrophages that had engulfed fungal particles compared to mice that had not been treated with the compound.
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But instead, the mice treated with sulfasalazine were healthier.
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The drug, sulfasalazine, spurs the body to get rid of the fungal evaders by enhancing the body's ability to chew them up instead of leaving the debris to litter the lungs, where it would continue to provoke an onslaught of harmful inflammation.
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