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Intrapatient and interpatient pharmacokinetic variability of raltegravir in the clinical setting.
Therapeutic drug monitoring - 1 Apr 2012
Siccardi Marco, DʼAvolio Antonio, Rodriguez-Novoa Sonia, Cuenca Lorena, Simiele Marco, Baietto Lorena, Calcagno Andrea, Moss Darren, Bonora Stefano, Soriano Vicente, Back David J, Owen Andrew, Di Perri Giovanni
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INTRODUCTION: Raltegravir (RAL) is the first in class integrase inhibitor and is licensed for administration at 400 mg twice daily. RAL pharmacokinetics are characterized by high interpatient variability and recently RAL plasma exposure has been correlated with efficacy. RAL is primarily metabolized by glucuronidation via uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1) and UGT1A1*28 considered to be the...
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