The therapeutic response to D-penicillamine in rheumatoid arthritis: influence of glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms

Abstract

To investigate whether the therapeutic response of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients to D-penicillamine is associated with polymorphisms in genes of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) supergene family.

• Acceptance Date: Sep 2, 1998
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1999
• Journal: Rheumatology (Oxford)
• Print ISSN: 1462-0324
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 43 - 47
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/38.1.43
• Keywords: D-Pencillamine, Rheumatoid arthritis, Therapeutic response, Glutathione S-transferase, Polymorphism
• Publisher URL: http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/43.long