the microsampling blog / Immunosuppressants

An article by Binu Susan Mathew et al at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, published in the July-August 2022 …

The human immune system is conditioned to attack anything it identifies as "foreign." When a patient receives an organ transplant, their immune system typically identifies the new organ as foreign, …

Immunosuppressive drugs are mandatory when a patient is going through procedures like organ or tissue transplantation, chemotherapy, or suffering from autoimmune diseases. This is because ISP drugs have a narrow …

Expert interpretation of drug concentration is critical to understanding pharmacokinetics and realizing full its clinical benefits. Clinicians achieve this by monitoring drug pharmacodynamics routinely and measuring physiological indices of therapeutic responses directly. However, …

Immunosuppression prevents and treats acute rejection and graft damage during kidney transplantation. The development immunosuppressive agents such as tacrolimus, cyclosporine, and mycophenolate minimized the rejection rate and improved short-term graft …

Over the past five decades, the medical community has witnessed considerable advancements in organ transplants. Patients receive organs, and through immunosuppressive drugs, their bodies can accept the organ. Therefore, the …