Salma Nabil Tammam
Application of biodegradable nanopartieles in liver targeting of tacrolimus /
Salma Nabil Tammam ; Supervised Nagia Nagib Afifi , Ola Heikal
- Cairo : Salma Nabil Tammam , 2010
- 163 Leaves : charts , facsimiles ; 30cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - German University - Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research - Department of Pharmaceutical Technology
Tacrolimus is a potent immunosuppressant used in liver transplantation to avoid graft rejection. Tacrolimus has a narrow therapeutic index and exhibits variable phamacokinetics with high inter and intra-patient variability making dose adjustment and therapeutic drug monitoring a complicated task, not to mention increasing the occurrence of adverse effects