COVID-19: therapeutics and their toxicities

MA Chary, AF Barbuto, S Izadmehr, BD Hayes… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - Springer
SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus that emerged in 2019 and is causing the COVID-19
pandemic. There is no current standard of care. Clinicians need to be mindful of the toxicity …

A review of the toxicity of HIV medications

AM Margolis, H Heverling, PA Pham… - Journal of Medical …, 2014 - Springer
Antiretroviral therapy has changed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection from a
near-certainly fatal illness to one that can be managed chronically. More patients are taking …

Mitochondrial toxicity of NRTI antiviral drugs: an integrated cellular perspective

W Lewis, BJ Day, WC Copeland - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2003 - nature.com
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimes based on nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) have revolutionized the treatment of AIDS in recent years …

Assessment of mitochondrial toxicity in human cells treated with tenofovir: comparison with other nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

G Birkus, MJM Hitchcock, T Cihlar - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Drug-associated dysfunction of mitochondria is believed to play a role in the etiology of the
various adverse symptoms that occur in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected …

HIV neuropathy: insights in the pathology of HIV peripheral nerve disease

CA Pardo, JC McArthur… - Journal of the Peripheral …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract HIV‐associated neuropathies (HIV‐N) have become the most frequent neurological
disorder associated with HIV infection. The most common forms of HIV‐N are the distal …

Idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury: an overview

SH Hussaini, EA Farrington - Expert opinion on drug safety, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) encompasses a spectrum of clinical disease ranging from
mild biochemical abnormalities to acute liver failure. The majority of adverse liver reactions …

Lactic acidosis: recognition, kinetics, and associated prognosis

C Vernon, JL LeTourneau - Critical care clinics, 2010 - criticalcare.theclinics.com
Lactic acidosis in the setting of severe illness has a history dating back into the 1800s when
Johann Joseph Scherer first measured lactic acid levels in postmortem blood from two …

Toxicity of nucleoside analogues used to treat AIDS and the selectivity of the mitochondrial DNA polymerase

H Lee, J Hanes, KA Johnson - Biochemistry, 2003 - ACS Publications
Incorporation of nucleoside analogues by the mitochondrial DNA polymerase has been
implicated as the primary cause underlying many of the toxic side effects of these drugs in …

Drugs targeting mitochondrial functions to control tumor cell growth

N Dias, C Bailly - Biochemical pharmacology, 2005 - Elsevier
Mitochondria, the power houses of the cell, are at the cross-road of many cellular pathways.
They play a central role in energy metabolism, regulate calcium flux and are implicated in …

Changing patterns in the neuropathogenesis of HIV during the HAART era

TD Langford, SL Letendre, GJ Larrea… - Brain …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid progress in the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy has changed the
observed patterns in HIV encephalitis and AIDS‐related CNS opportunistic infections. Early …