Shigeru Satoh, Takenori Niioka, Hideaki Kagaya, Kazuyuki Numakura, Takamitsu Inoue, Mitsuru Saito, Naoki Komine, Shintaro Narita, Norihiko Tsuchiya, Tomonori Habuchi, Masatomo Miura
UNLABELLED: Aim & patients & methods: This study investigated 24-h pharmacokinetic and CYP3A5 pharmacogenetic differences between once-daily tacrolimus (Tac-q.d.) versus twice-daily tacrolimus (Tac-b.i.d.) pretransplantation and at 1 month and 1 year post-transplantaion. RESULTS: The dose-adjusted trough level (Cmin) and area under the blood concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h (AUC₀₋₂₄) increased twofold within 1 year post-transplantation with both formulations and the two genotypes...
August 2014: Pharmacogenomics