Toxicity of antiretroviral therapy and implications for drug development

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 624-634

  Carr, Andrew ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABACAVIR; AMPRENAVIR; AMPRENAVIR PHOSPHATE; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ATAZANAVIR; DELAVIRDINE; DIDANOSINE; EFAVIRENZ; EMTRICITABINE; ENFUVIRTIDE; INDINAVIR; INSULIN; LAMIVUDINE; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NELFINAVIR; NEVIRAPINE; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR AGONIST; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RITONAVIR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; ROSIGLITAZONE; SAQUINAVIR; STAVUDINE; TENOFOVIR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZALCITABINE; ZIDOVUDINE; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FATTY LIVER; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LACTIC ACIDEMIA; LIPOATROPHY; LIPODYSTROPHY; LIPOMATOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LONG TERM CARE; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV PROTEASE INHIBITORS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LIPODYSTROPHY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 0043069555     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd1151     Document Type: Review

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