[PDF][PDF] Drug-induced pruritus: a review

A Reich, S Ständer… - Acta dermato …, 2009 - researchgate.net
237 Drug-induced pruritus pruritus, neuronal storage of the substance evokes pruritus,
which slowly relieves after degradation of the substance. This can be grouped as chronic …

Risk assessment of drug‐induced long QT syndrome for some COVID‐19 repurposed drugs

V Michaud, P Dow, SB Al Rihani… - Clinical and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The risk‐benefit ratio associated with the use of repurposed drugs to treat severe acute
respiratory syndrome‐coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)‐related infectious coronavirus disease …

Cytochrome P450 2C8 and CYP3A4/5 are involved in chloroquine metabolism in human liver microsomes

KA Kim, JY Park, JS Lee, S Lim - Archives of pharmacal research, 2003 - Springer
Chloroquine has been used for many decades in the prophylaxis and treatment of malaria. It
is metabolized in humans through the N-dealkylation pathway, to desethylchloroquine …

Human Genetic Variation Is Associated With Plasmodium falciparum Drug Resistance

GM Paganotti, BC Gallo, F Verra… - Journal of Infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
One approach to investigate if human genetic variation influences the selection of
Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance is to compare the frequency of resistant infections …

Biologic functions of hydroxychloroquine in disease: From COVID-19 to cancer

B Niemann, A Puleo, C Stout, J Markel, BA Boone - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chloroquine (CQ) and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), initially utilized in the treatment of
malaria, have now developed a long list of applications. Despite their clinical relevance …

Itching, chloroquine, and malaria: a review of recent molecular and neuroscience advances and their contribution to mechanistic understanding and therapeutics of …

AAL Ajayi - International journal of dermatology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Chloroquine (CQ) is an antimalarial drug that elicits severe pruritus in black Africans with
malaria fever. This acute itching (2–7 days duration) exhibits age dependency and a racial …

A longitudinal trial comparing chloroquine as monotherapy or in combination with artesunate, azithromycin or atovaquone-proguanil to treat malaria

MK Laufer, PC Thesing, FK Dzinjalamala, OM Nyirenda… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background The predominance of chloroquine-susceptible falciparum malaria in Malawi
more than a decade after chloroquine's withdrawal permits contemplation of re-introducing …

Endogenous opioids, µ‐opiate receptors and chloroquine‐induced pruritus: A double‐blind comparison of naltrexone and promethazine in patients with malaria fever …

AA Ajayi, BA Kolawole, SJ Udoh - International journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Chloroquine induces a severe generalized pruritus, in predisposed Black African
patients, during treatment of malaria fever, and also in some Caucasian patients treated for …

Risk of drug-induced Long QT Syndrome associated with the use of repurposed COVID-19 drugs: A systematic review

V Michaud, P Dow, SBA Rihani, M Deodhar, M Arwood… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Objective To determine the relative risk of drug-induced Long QT Syndrome (LQTS)
associated with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) proposed repurposed drugs compared to well …

Pharmacokinetic aspects of chloroquine-induced pruritus: influence of dose and evidence for varied extent of metabolism of the drug

CO Onyeji, FA Ogunbona - European journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2001 - Elsevier
The significance of a pharmacokinetics basis in chloroquine (CQ)-induced pruritus was
investigated by determining the disposition of the drug in two groups of volunteers; pruritus …