Patent pending for pain-free method of monitoring drug levels in transplant patients

...iate Professor of Pharmacy Fatemeh Akhlaghi said saliva offers a pain-free way to measure levels of immunosuppressive agents such as cyclosporine, and mycophenolic acid, which are essential in preventing organ rejection after transplantation. She is also researching the use of saliva for monitoring the concentrat...

Liver transplant recipients have higher cancer risk

... malignancy is strong. "Currently, two immunosuppressive agents have shown protective effects against the development of cancer," Buell points out. mycophenolic acid and TOR inhibitors may provide an oncologic advantage for liver transplant recipients. ...

Best Drug for SARS

...ribavirin, with four additional antiviral drugs: 6-azauridine, pyrazofurin, mycophenolic acid, and glycyrrhizin. All were tested against two isolates of the SARS vi...s most effective in inhibiting replication of the SARS virus. Ribavirin and mycophenolic acid, by contrast, did not affect replication of the virus, and 6-azauridin...

Mycophenolic in Biological Technology

A new LC/MS/MS Research Method for Rapid Quantitation of Five Immunosuppressant Drugs, including Mycophenolic Acid (MPA)

Purpose A previously published application note in this series describes an LC/MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of four immunosuppressant drugs: Cyclosporin A (CsA), Tacrolimus (TAC, aka FK-506), Sirolimus (SIR, aka Rapamycin) and Everolimus (EVE, aka RAD-001) ...