Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are areas in pharmacology related to different themes in the pharmaceutical sciences, including therapeutic drug monitoring and different stages of drug development.
Laiz Campos Pereira +5 more
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Tacrolimus concentration/dose ratio as a therapeutic drug monitoring strategy: The influence of gender and comedication [PDF]
Background/Aim. A combination of tacrolimus and other drugs such as corticosteroids has been commonly used immunosuppresive regimens. On the other hand, there is a growing body of evidence that male and female may differ in their response to the
Rančić Nemanja +6 more
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Aims: Cardiovascular outcome trials with anti-diabetic drugs suggest that additional cardiovascular benefit can be achieved independent of improving glycaemic control.
Jeroen V. Koomen +7 more
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Acute drug effects on habitual and non-habitual responding in crossed high alcohol preferring mice [PDF]
RATIONALE: Drug reward plays a central role in acquiring drug-seeking behavior. However, subjects may continue using drugs despite negative consequences because self-administration becomes habitual, and divorced from outcome values. Although a history
Grahame, Nicholas J., Houck, Christa A.
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A strategy to model nonmonotonic dose-response curve and estimate IC50. [PDF]
The half-maximal inhibitory concentration IC[Formula: see text] is an important pharmacodynamic index of drug effectiveness. To estimate this value, the dose response relationship needs to be established, which is generally achieved by fitting monotonic ...
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Evaluation of the anticoagulant effect of vitamin K antagonists in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrilation [PDF]
Background/Aim. Despite the introduction of new oral anticoagulants (dabigatran, rivoroxaban, apixaban), vitamin K antagonists (VKA), such as warfarin and acenocoumarol are still the most widely used oral anticoagulants for the treatment of nonvalvular ...
Stanojković Zoran +6 more
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Efficacy and tolerability of adjunctive brivaracetam in patients with prior antiepileptic drug exposure: A post-hoc study. [PDF]
Brivaracetam (BRV), a selective, high-affinity ligand for synaptic vesicle protein 2A, is a new antiepileptic drug (AED) for adjunctive treatment of focal (partial-onset) seizures in adults with epilepsy.
Asadi-Pooya, Ali A. +7 more
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Efikasnost terapijskog monitoringa ciklosporina određivanjem C2 i PIK0−4 tokom prva 24 meseca posle transplantacije bubrega [PDF]
Background/Aim. Cyclosporine (CyA) therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) through the measurement of drug concentration in blood two hours after the administration (C2), and/or according to the calculated value of the area under the concentration - time curve
Vavić Neven +5 more
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Sugammadex ED90 dose to reverse the rocuronium neuromuscular blockade in obese patients
Objective: to determine the ED90 (minimum effective dose in 90% of patients) of sugammadex for the reversal of rocuronium-induced moderate neuromuscular blockade (NMB) in patients with grade III obesity undergoing bariatric surgery.
MAURO PRADO DA SILVA +5 more
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Although many antipsychotics can reasonably control positive symptoms in schizophrenia, patients’ return to society is often hindered by negative symptoms and cognitive deficits.
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