Population pharmacokinetics and limited sampling strategy for therapeutic drug monitoring of mycophenolate mofetil in Japanese patients with lupus nephritis

Abstract Background Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), a prodrug of the immunosuppressive agent mycophenolic acid (MPA), is difficult to administer because of the pharmacokinetic complexity of MPA. Although dosage adjustment according to the 12-h area under the concentration–time curve (AUC0-12) is though...

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Main Authors: Tomoko Mizaki, Hironobu Nobata, Shogo Banno, Makoto Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Kinashi, Shiho Iwagaitsu, Takuji Ishimoto, Yukiko Kuru, Masafumi Ohnishi, Ken-ichi Sako, Yasuhiko Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-01-01
Series:Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40780-022-00271-w