Archive for January 2nd, 2009

Skin & Allergy News - Tetracycline Derivative Induces Lupus

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

A new angiogenesis agent being tested in a phase I cancer trial induced phototoxicity and systemic lupus erythematosus in 3 of 35 patients.
The compound, 6-demethyl-6-deoxy-4-dedimethylaminotetracycline (COL-3), is the second tetracycline derivative to be associated with drug-induced …