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ABCB1 polymorphisms may have a minor effect on ciclosporin blood concentrations in myasthenia gravis patients.
British journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Aug 2008
Zhang Ya-tong, Yang Li-ping, Shao Hong, Li Ke-xin, Sun Chun-hua, Shi Lu-wen
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: Ciclosporin (CsA), which is widely used in autoimmune disease and transplantation, has a narrow therapeutic index. It also shows considerable interindividual variability in its pharmacokinetics, which may be attributable to polymorphisms of the multidrug efflux pump P-glycoprotein, encoded by MDR-1. The aim was to determine the role of genetic polymorphisms in MDR-1 with respect to interindividual...
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