Usefulness of monitoring free (unbound) concentrations of therapeutic drugs in patient management

A Dasgupta - Clinica chimica acta, 2007 - Elsevier
Drugs are bound to various serum proteins in different degrees and only unbound or free
drug is pharmacologically active. Although free drug concentration can be estimated from …

Fab antibody fragments: some applications in clinical toxicology

RJ Flanagan, AL Jones - Drug safety, 2004 - Springer
This review provides current information on the use of antigen-binding fragments (Fab) from
cleaved antibodies to treat poisoning with digoxin and other potent, low formula mass …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between the autophagy protein Beclin 1 and Na+, K+-ATPase during starvation, exercise, and ischemia

ÁF Fernández, Y Liu, V Ginet, M Shi, J Nah, Z Zou… - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Autosis is a distinct form of cell death that requires both autophagy genes and the Na+, K+-
ATPase pump. However, the relationship between the autophagy machinery and Na+, K+ …

Interferences in quantitative immunochemical methods

S Dodig - Biochemia Medica, 2009 - biochemia-medica.com
In the immunoassays, an antibody used as a reagent, detects an analyte (antigen) of
interest. Although the noncovalent bound between analyte and complementary antibody is …

Extracorporeal treatment for digoxin poisoning: systematic review and recommendations from the EXTRIP Workgroup

JB Mowry, EA Burdmann, K Anseeuw, P Ayoub… - Clinical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background: The Extracorporeal Treatments in Poisoning (EXTRIP) workgroup was
formed to provide recommendations on the use of extracorporeal treatments (ECTR) in …

In vitro selection and characterization of deoxyribonucleic acid aptamers for digoxin

Z Kiani, M Shafiei, P Rahimi-Moghaddam… - Analytica chimica …, 2012 - Elsevier
The low therapeutic index of digoxin necessitates careful monitoring of its serum levels. Most
of digoxin immunoassays suffer from interferences with digoxin-like immunoreactive …

Rapid detection of oleander poisoning using digoxin immunoassays: comparison of five assays

A Dasgupta, P Datta - Therapeutic drug monitoring, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Oleander is an ornamental shrub that grows in the United States, Australia, India, Sri Lanka,
China, and other parts of the world. All parts of the plant are poisonous because the …

Therapeutic drug monitoring of digoxin: impact of endogenous and exogenous digoxin-like immunoreactive substances

A Dasgupta - Toxicological reviews, 2006 - Springer
Digoxin is a cardioactive drug with a narrow therapeutic range. Therapeutic drug monitoring
is essential in clinical practice for efficacy as well as to avoid digoxin toxicity. Immunoassays …

Anticalins as an alternative to antibody technology

S Schlehuber, A Skerra - Expert opinion on biological therapy, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Anticalins are a class of engineered ligand-binding proteins that are based on the lipocalin
scaffold. The lipocalin protein architecture is characterised by a compact, rigid β-barrel that …

Molecular similarity methods for predicting cross-reactivity with therapeutic drug monitoring immunoassays

MD Krasowski, MG Siam, M Iyer… - Therapeutic drug …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Immunoassays are used for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), yet may suffer from cross-
reacting compounds able to bind the assay antibodies in a manner similar to the target …