TY - CHAP
T1 - Drugs That Act on the Immune System
T2 - Immunosuppressive and Immunostimulatory Drugs
AU - Meaney, Calvin J.
AU - Karas, Spinel
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Side Effects of Drugs Annuals is a series of volumes in which the adverse effects of drugs and adverse reactions to them are surveyed. The series supplements the contents of Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions. This review of the January 2015 to December 2015 publications on immunosuppressive and immunostimulatory drugs covers belatacept, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, everolimus, fingolimod, glatiramer, leflunomide, mycophenolic acid (mycophenolate mofetil and enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium), sirolimus (rapamycin), tacrolimus, temsirolimus, thiopurines and the immunoenhancing drug levamisole. A special review of genetic associations with cyclophosphamide side effects is presented. Pharmacogenetic associations to adverse effects are also presented for cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, leflunomide, and tacrolimus.
AB - The Side Effects of Drugs Annuals is a series of volumes in which the adverse effects of drugs and adverse reactions to them are surveyed. The series supplements the contents of Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions. This review of the January 2015 to December 2015 publications on immunosuppressive and immunostimulatory drugs covers belatacept, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, everolimus, fingolimod, glatiramer, leflunomide, mycophenolic acid (mycophenolate mofetil and enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium), sirolimus (rapamycin), tacrolimus, temsirolimus, thiopurines and the immunoenhancing drug levamisole. A special review of genetic associations with cyclophosphamide side effects is presented. Pharmacogenetic associations to adverse effects are also presented for cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, leflunomide, and tacrolimus.
KW - Cyclosporine
KW - Everolimus
KW - Immunostimulatory drugs
KW - Immunosuppressive drugs
KW - Mycophenolic acid
KW - Sirolimus
KW - Tacrolimus
KW - Thiopurines
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84997418600
U2 - 10.1016/bs.seda.2016.08.001
DO - 10.1016/bs.seda.2016.08.001
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Side Effects of Drugs Annual
SP - 407
EP - 424
BT - Side Effects of Drugs Annual
PB - Elsevier B.V.
ER -