Evidence of Different Pharmacokinetics Including Relationship among AUC, Peak, and Trough Levels between Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus in Renal Transplant Recipients Using New Pharmacokinetic Parameter—Why Cyclosporine Is Monitored by C2 Level and Tacrolimus by Trough Level

• Published in: Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 90 - 94
• Main Authors: Takeuchi, Hironori, Matsuno, Naoto, Senuma, Kayoko, Hirano, Toshihiko, Yokoyama, Takayoshi, Taira, Shinichiro, Kihara, Yu, Kuzuoka, Kentaro, Konno, Osamu, Jojima, Yoshimaro, Mejit, Abudushukur, Akashi, Isao, Nakamura, Yuki, Iwamoto, Hitoshi, Hama, Koichiro, Iwahori, Tohru, Ashizawa, Tatsuto, Nagao, Takeshi, Toraishi, Tatsunori, Okuyama, Kiyoshi, Oka, Kitaro, Unezaki, Sakae
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Tokyo The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan 01.01.2008; Pharmaceutical Society of Japan; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: area under the concentration time curve; area under the trough level; blood concentration at 2 h after administration; cyclosporine; tacrolimus; trough concentration

The clinical efficacy of calcineurin inhibitors administered to renal transplant patients is considered to be a strong function of the area under the concentration time curve (AUC). Interestingly, monitoring timings of blood concentrations for two similar calcineurin inhibitors, cyclosporine (CYA; N...