Direct acting anti-hepatitis C virus drugs: clinical pharmacology and future direction

A Geddawy, YF Ibrahim, NM Elbahie… - Journal of translational …, 2017 - degruyter.com
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of chronic liver disease. The
introduction of direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs) for its treatment represents a major …

Vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus: challenges and solutions

I Gentile, G Borgia - International journal of women's health, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
More than 240 million people worldwide are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV).
Mother-to-child transmission remains the most important mechanism of infection in countries …

Synthetic approaches to the 2014 new drugs

AC Flick, HX Ding, CA Leverett, RE Kyne Jr… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2016 - Elsevier
New drugs introduced to the market every year represent privileged structures for particular
biological targets. These new chemical entities (NCEs) provide insight into molecular …

New hepatitis C virus therapies: drug classes and metabolism, drug interactions relevant in the transplant settings, drug options in decompensated cirrhosis, and drug …

PY Kwo, MB Badshah - Current opinion in organ transplantation, 2015 - journals.lww.com
In summary, DAAs have better tolerability and greater efficacy than interferon-based therapy
post-transplant. Drug–drug interactions must be carefully assessed when these newer …

The discovery of sofosbuvir: a revolution for therapy of chronic hepatitis C

I Gentile, AE Maraolo, AR Buonomo… - Expert opinion on …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a worldwide health problem, whose
management has been revolutionized after the availability of sofosbuvir, a direct-acting …

A rapid and optimized LC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous extraction and determination of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir in human plasma

EF Elkady, AA Aboelwafa - Journal of AOAC international, 2016 - academic.oup.com
A new validated bioanalytical method based on LC tandem MS has been developed for the
simultaneous extraction and determination of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir in human plasma …

Dasabuvir: a non-nucleoside inhibitor of NS5B for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection

I Gentile, AR Buonomo, G Borgia - Reviews on recent clinical …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronically infects about 2% of the world's population. Approximately
a quarter of these patients will develop, during their life, liver cirrhosis, which entails a high …

A journey around the medicinal chemistry of hepatitis C virus inhibitors targeting NS4B: from target to preclinical drug candidates

R Cannalire, ML Barreca, G Manfroni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global health burden with an estimated 130–170
million chronically infected individuals and is the cause of serious liver diseases such as …

Drug interactions with new hepatitis C oral drugs

V Soriano, P Labarga, P Barreiro… - Expert Opinion on …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has recently become a curable
disease with antiviral therapy. The knowledge of drug interactions using direct-acting …

New direct-acting antivirals in hepatitis C therapy: a review of sofosbuvir, ledipasvir, daclatasvir, simeprevir, paritaprevir, ombitasvir and dasabuvir

SM McConachie, SM Wilhelm… - Expert review of clinical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Hepatitis C is a chronic infection associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. In
recent years, there has been a shift in treatment paradigm with the discovery and approval of …