drawback to its use. The early studies by Myers et al. In addition to the studies by Myers et al. [1–3], seven [1] described the renal structural and functional retrospective long-term analyses and one case control changes in the native kidneys of heart transplant study regarding renal function in cardiac transplant recipients. Repeated haemodynamic investigations recipients have been published...

BACKGROUND WE AIMED AT CHARACTERIZING THE AGING GINGIVA ANALYZING: i) collagen content and turnover in human gingival tissues and fibroblasts obtained from healthy young and aging subjects. ii) the effect of cyclosporin A administration in human cultured gingival fibroblasts obtained from aging compared to young subjects. METHODS Morphological analysis was performed on haematoxylin-eosin and ...

The hopes for liver transplantation have been increased by experience with the new immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A. Optimal therapy with cyclosporin A has required steroid therapy, but the amounts of prednisone used have been a small fraction of those used in the past.

Five children with severe asthma requiring at least 10 mg of prednisolone daily were treated with cyclosporin. Three were weaned from prednisolone, but one quickly relapsed. One girl had her steroid dose lowered but suffered unacceptable hirsutism and one child failed to respond. Cyclosporin may be useful in refractory childhood asthma. A prospective study is required to confirm this.

We describe the beneficial effects of treatment with cyclosporin A in a 10-year-old boy with hyperimmunoglobulin E and refractory nephrotic syndrome. The patient was initially resistant to steroid therapy with prednisolone alone. Additional therapy with cyclosporin A was then prescribed, effectively reducing levels of serum immunoglobulin E and preventing flare up of nephrotic syndrome.

Cyclosporin A is effective in the treatment of asthma patients, but its chronic use is limited by toxicity. Novel cyclosporin A analogues were synthesized utilizing the olefin metathesis reaction and evaluated in a calcineurin A inhibition assay. The novel analogues demonstrated activity comparable to activity of the parent molecule and are potential soft drugs.

Several reference compounds such as Cyclosporin A, Tamoxifen, Verapamil, and our compound 1, known as P-gp modulators, have been tested for their P-gp modulating activity in isolated organ bath. Compound 1 showed the best result in organ bath experiment (EC(50)=14.7 microM), Cyclosporin A and Tamoxifen displayed EC(50)=25.2 and 39.4 microM, respectively.