Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther Toxicol
September 1992
The purpose of this study consisted in following-up the biological and clinical parameters in HIV infected patients treated with tacrine (THA). THA (150-300 mg/d) was administrated to 70 patients (39 IVC I and 31 IVC II and III). Thirty-five were treated after discontinuation of AZT treatment and 35 as a first intention treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPreviously used in Alzheimer disease Tacrine (THA): tetrahydroaminoacridine has shown a rise of hepatic transaminase enzyme activity (TEA) in 18% of patients for Summers and 19% for Ames. Although studies using THA from USA or Canada have noticed a rise of TEA in 30% of the patients, after a treatment course with French THA we also have noted a rise of TEA in 12% of the Alzheimer patients. However, these secondary effects yielded to the end of treatment.
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August 1989
On the basis of a similarity between certain neurological symptoms of AIDS and Alzheimer's disease, the authors studied the effects of tetrahydroaminoacridine (THA) in 9 patients with HIV infection. After 2 months of treatment, the preliminary results showed a significant increase in CD4 lymphocyte count as well as a decrease in p24 antigen level in 8 patients, of whom 4 became negative for the p24 antigen.
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January 1987
Previous studies have described a pharmacokinetic interaction between probenecid, a uricosuric drug, and oxipurinol, the major metabolite of allopurinol. In single dose studies, no interaction was found to occur between benzbromarone, another uricosuric agent, and oxipurinol. A cross over study was conducted in 12 volunteers to compare the kinetics of allopurinol and oxipurinol following treatment for 7 days with allopurinol alone or combined with benzbromarone 20 or 100 mg.
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