Essential oils (Eos) have demonstrated antiviral activity, but their toxicity can hinder their use as therapeutic agents. Recently, some essential oil components have been used within safe levels of acceptable daily intake limits without causing toxicity. The "ImmunoDefender," a novel antiviral compound made from a well-known mixture of essential oils, is considered highly effective in treating SARS-CoV-2 infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The mass vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2 was started in Tunisia on 13 March 2021 by using progressively seven different vaccines approved for emergency use. Herein, we aimed to evaluate the humoral and cellular immunity in subjects aged 40 years and over who received one of the following two-dose regimen vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, namely mRNA-1273 or Spikevax (Moderna), BNT162B2 or Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech), Gam-COVID-Vac or Sputnik V (Gamaleya Research Institute), ChAdOx1-S or Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca), BIBP (Sinopharm), and Coronavac (Sinovac).
Material And Methods: For each type of vaccine, a sample of subjects aged 40 and over was randomly selected from the national platform for monitoring COVID-19 vaccination and contacted to participate to this study.
The use of cyclosporin in nephrotic syndrome can be considered in cortico-resistance or cortico-dependence. Cyclosporin is an immunosuppressant with a narrow therapeutic range and large pharmacokinetics variability justifying its therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). The aim of this study was to evaluate the TDM of cyclosporin by the measurement of AUC0-12h in patients with nephrotic syndrome and to study the correlations between the AUC0-12h and the different blood concentrations of cyclosporin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Biol Clin (Paris)
August 2019
Unlabelled: Infliximab (IFX) is a chimeric monoclonal antibody which has proven its efficacy in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. However, its efficacy can be limited by the development of anti-IFX antibodies (ATI) resulting in a therapeutic failure of IFX. ATI plasmatic monitoring is then indicated to optimize IFX treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Clopidogrel (clopi) is a prodrug widely prescribed in the management of coronary artery disease and requires the intervention of hepatic cytochrome P450 2C19 (CYP2C19) for its activation. However, there is interindividual variability in response to clopi despite the use of recommended doses. Thus, the studies have highlighted the effect of the CYP2C19 gene polymorphism or Cyp2C19 gene on the response to clopi and particularly Cyp2C19 * 2 which may be associated with an increased risk of major cardiovascular events or MACE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Learning transfer, in medical teaching, remains an essential question and optimizing it is the main preoccupation of every trainer in medical sciences. Some learning methods showed their efficacy as the contextualized learning in the framework of a professional activity or in a situation recalling it in a realistic manner.
Aim: To describe steps of planning and progress of a session of clarification, illustration, application et participation (CIAP) of pharmacology teaching students from second cycle of medical studies (DCEM) and to assess the session.
Objective: In this study, we aimed to analyze the trough plasmatic levels (C0) of the antiepileptic drugs (AED) administered by nasogastric tubes (NGT) in comatose patients and to draw up recommendations for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and for the modalities of AED administration by NGT.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective study on comatose patients addressed over six years and 10 months in Clinical Pharmacology for C0 measurement of AED administered by NGT.
Results: In this study, the sex-ratio was 2.
Introduction: Effective prevention strategies require specific actions during the different phases of ischemia-reperfusion (I-R) injury. The objective of our study is to evaluate the effect of aqueous extract of Hypericum humifusum leaves (HHL) on liver I-R model in Rat.
Material And Methods: Animals were subjected to 90 min of hepatic ischemia followed by reperfusion (120 min).
Aim: To evaluate the modalities of administration of antiepileptic drugs (AED) with nasogastric tube (NGT) by nurses and to draw up recommendations.
Methods: Our study consisted on investigating the modalities of administration of AED's with NGT by nurses during four months. We prepared 10 questions including demographic information.
Mycophenolate mofetil is a prodrug widely used in renal transplantation to prevent organ rejection. It is hydrolyzed to its active compound mycophenolic acid (MPA). MPA area under the curve (AUC) is considered the best pharmacokinetic parameter for the estimation of MPA exposition and for prediction of rejection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction In recent years, many marine resources have drew attention in the research for bio-active compounds to develop new drugs and health foods. (1) Marine algae are now considered as a rich source of antioxidants (2). It is known that seaweeds contain numerous bioactive substances that have the ability to lower cholesterol, reduce blood pressure, promote healthy digestion; and antioxidant activity (3).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: During last years, significant progress was made in the comprehension of the hepatic lesions after Ischemia-Reperfusion episode in order to improve the Results in practice clinical.
Aim: To avoid or reduce the damage induced by Ischemia-Reperfusion, we developed a model of hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion with variable periods of reperfusion from 0 to 24 hours.
Methods: Our study related to rats Wistar males.
Background: The use of high dose of MTX in the treatment of the leukemia is actually better controlled by renal preparation, control of plasma concentrations and administration of folinic acid. However, High dose MTX has been proven to cause substantial toxicity and have high intra-and inter-patient variability. Population pharmacokinetic analysis is a useful tool for identification of sources of pharmacokinetic variability during anticancer drug development and can aid the design of alternative dosing regimens to enhance their efficacy and safety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lamotrigine is an effective anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy. It has a narrow therapeutic range, a large inter and intra-individual pharmacokinetic variability and some concentration-dependent side effects.
Aim: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a new method for lamotrigine quantitation in plasma using HPLC with UV/visible detection.
Ann Biol Clin (Paris)
September 2016
Ciclosporine (CsA) is an immunosuppressant drug used in bone marrow transplantation in order to extend allograft survival. Despite its efficiency, CsA can expose to therapeutic failure or to toxicity because of underdosing or overdosage. So, many techniques of monitoring CsA in blood were used, the referance one is the chromatographic technique then, the automated techniques: fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) and chimiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMitotane provided serious side effects and low doses seemed to be tolerated. Determination of mitotane concentration in plasma is recommended. We report the case of toxic plasma levels with low doses of mitotane in a 47-year-old man with adrenocortical cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Valproic acid (VA) is a widely used antiepileptic drug. Because of its pharmacokinetic variability and the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors such as the treatment compliance, VA therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is recommended in children. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of treatment compliance and the economic level on VA tough plasmatic concentration (TPC) and epileptic rhythm in children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTacrolimus is a calcineurin inhibitor primarily metabolized by CYP3A4 and secondarily by CYP3A5. Several drugs can modify tacrolimus blood levels as calcium channel blockers (CCBs). Interaction with nicardipine was reported in some cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVancomycin penetrates poorly through the blood-brain barrier. Determination of vancomycin concentration in plasma is recommended. In contrast, its determination in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is rarely performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This work is aimed on the study of doxorubicin cardiotoxicity and hepatotoxicity in rats and the evaluation of protective effect of trimetazidine administrated concomitantly with doxorubicin for 3 days.
Materials And Methods: Male Wistar rats used were subjected to different types of treatment (3 days); A: Control, B: Doxorubicin treatment and C: Trimetazidine and doxorubicin treatment. After sacrifice, tissular distribution of doxorubicin, cardiac scintigraphy, histological examination of the myocardium, and evaluation of liver function were assessed.
Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to establish the population pharmacokinetic (PPK) model of bupivacaine after combined lumbar plexus and sciatic nerve blocks and secondary aim is to assess the effect of patient's characteristics including age, body weight and sex on pharmacokinetic parameters.
Materials And Methods: A total of 31 patients scheduled for elective lower extremity surgery with combined lumbar and sciatic nerve block using plain bupivacaine 0.5% were included.
The present work aims to investigate whether the pharmacokinetics of the active metabolite mycophenolic acid (MPA) varies according to the circadian dosing-time of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF). A total of 180 male Wistar rats aged 8 weeks and synchronized for 3 weeks to 12 h light and 12 h dark were used. A single dose of 200 mg/kg of MMF was administrated in rats by i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF