Low bioavailability of cyclosporine microemulsion and tacrolimus in a small bowel transplant recipient: Possible relationship to intestinal P- glycoprotein activity

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 333-335

  Kaplan, Bruce ^b   Lown, Ken ^c   Craig, Robert ^a   Abecassis, Michael ^a   Kaufman, Dixon ^a   Leventhal, Joseph ^a   Stuart, Frank ^a   Meier Kriesche, Herwig Ulf ^b   Fryer, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; GLYCOPROTEIN P; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; MICROEMULSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE;

BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; CYCLOSPORINE; EMULSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0033608087     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199901270-00026     Document Type: Article

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