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Methostes (Methotrexate) Injection

Generic brands for Methotrexate Injection Available in India

Brand Name Methostes
Generic Name Methotrexate
Strength 2.5mg, 15mg, 50mg, 500mg
Manufacturer Halsted Pharma Pvt. Ltd.

 

Description

Description

This page contains brief details about the drug methotrexate, it’s indication, dosage & administaration, mechanism of action, related brands with strength, warnings and common side effects.

Date of Approval

Methotrexate is an anti-metabolite and immunosuppressant drug. The FDA approved this for its medical use on 26th February 1999.

Mechanism of Action of Methotrexate

Methotrexate inhibits dihydrofolic acid reductase. Therefore, methotrexate interferes with DNA synthesis, repair, and cellular replication. Actively proliferating tissues such as malignant cells, bone marrow, fetal cells, buccal and intestinal mucosa, and urinary bladder cells are, in general, more sensitive to this medicine. Blocking these slows down how fast cancer cells grow and spread. In treating rheumatoid arthritis, methotrexate is thought to stop or reduce inflammation in the joints by altering the body’s defense mechanism in the immune system.

Uses of Methotrexate

It treats certain types of cancer, such as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), meningeal leukemia, non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, osteosarcoma, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, breast cancer, and head and neck cancer in adults. It is also used to treat severe psoriasis in adults (a skin disease in which red, scaly patches form on some body areas). It is also indicated to treat rheumatoid arthritis in adults.

Methotrexate Dosage available

Methotrexate is available as an injection and tablet. Always use this medicine as exactly prescribed by your doctor. Depending on the condition being treated, your physician decides the dose, dosage, and frequency of this injection. Methotrexate is injected into a vein (intravenously) or into muscle (intramuscularly). Do not self-administer this medicine.

If you are prescribed with tablets, do not chew, crush or dissolve the tablets. The score line is only there to help you break the tablet if you have difficulty swallowing it whole.  Swallow the tablets whole with water.

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References

  1. Methotrexate tablet – Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) – (emc) [Internet]. www.medicines.org.uk. [Revised March 2022] [cited 2023 Jun 2]. Available from: https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/511/smpc
  2. Hospira, Methotrexate Tablet, Food and drug administration. acess.fda.gov. [Revised August 2020] [cited 2023 Jun 2]. Available from: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2020/040054s015,s016,s017.pdf
  3. Goodman & Gilman’s, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Pharmacotherapy of inflammatory bowel disease, 12th edition, 2011, 1358.
  4. KD Tripathi, Essentials of Medical Pharmacology, Antirheumatoid and antigout drugs, 7th edition, 2013, 211.

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A generic drug is a drug defined as “a drug product that is comparable to a brand/reference listed drug product in dosage form, strength, quality and performance characteristics, and intended use”. There are Indian companies which manufacture and market these generic medicines after getting approval from Regulatory Authority of the country. These generic medicines contain the same active ingredients as the original formulation and are identical or within an acceptable bioequivalent range to the Innovator drug counterpart with respect to pharmacokinetic and pharmaco-dynamic properties. By extension, therefore, generics are considered identical in dose, strength, route of administration, safety, efficacy, and intended use. They are labeled with the name of the manufacturer and the adopted name (nonproprietary name) of the drug. When generic products become available, the market competition often leads to substantially lower prices and thereby make is affordable for large number of needy patients.

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