Significance of ethnic factors in immunosuppressive therapy management after organ transplantation.
Significance of ethnic factors in immunosuppressive therapy management after organ transplantation.
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DOI:
10.1097/ftd.0000000000000748
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发表时间:
2020-02
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Takaaki Yamada;Mengyu Zhang;S. Masuda
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作者:
Takaaki Yamada;Mengyu Zhang;S. Masuda
Clinical outcomes after organ transplantation have greatly improved in the last two decades with the discovery and development of immunosuppressive drugs such as calcineurin inhibitors, antiproliferative agents, and mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors. However, individualized dosage regimens have not yet been fully established for these drugs except for therapeutic drug monitoring-based dosage modification due to extensive interindividual variations in immunosuppressive drug pharmacokinetics. The variations in immunosuppressive drug pharmacokinetics are attributed to interindividual variations in the functional activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes, UDP-glucuronosyltransferases, and ATP-binding cassette subfamily B member 1 (known as P-glycoprotein or multidrug resistance 1) in the liver and small intestine. Some genetic variations have been found to be involved to at least some degree in pharmacokinetic variations in post-transplant immunosuppressive therapy. It is well known that the frequencies and effect size of minor alleles vary greatly between different races. Thus, ethnic considerations might provide useful information for optimizing individualized immunosuppressive therapy after organ transplantation. Here, we review ethnic factors affecting the pharmacokinetics of immunosuppressive drugs requiring therapeutic drug monitoring, including tacrolimus, cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil, sirolimus, and everolimus.