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Reply: Methotrexate neurotoxicity due to drug interactions: an inadequate folinic acid effect

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  1. Paul O’ Gorman Building, Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK

    Victoria J. Forster & Frederik W. van Delft

  2. Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK

    Susan F. Baird & Shona Mair

  3. Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Roderick Skinner

  4. Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Christina Halsey

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Forster, V.J., van Delft, F.W., Baird, S.F. et al. Reply: Methotrexate neurotoxicity due to drug interactions: an inadequate folinic acid effect. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 79, 841–842 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-017-3270-4

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