Introduction: Dyslipidemias are well-documented disorders in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients; and have been implicated as an etiology and prognosis factor for the disease, as well. In the current study, we aimed to evaluate the impact of various antihyperlipidemic regimens on the serum cholesterol levels. Method and material: A longitudinally study was conducted and 98 NAFLD p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of pioglitazone on cardiometabolic risk factors in non-diabetic patients with dyslipidaemia. METHODS This prospective, randomised clinical trial was conducted at Sheikh Zayed Medical College and Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, from August to October 2016, and comprised non-diabetic patients with dyslipidaemia. They were randomly divided into three groups....

Statins are an extensively used class of drugs, and myopathy is an uncommon, but well-described side effect of statin therapy. Inflammatory myopathies, including polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and necrotizing autoimmune myopathy, are even more rare, but debilitating, side effects of statin therapy that are characterized by the persistence of symptoms even after discontinuation of the drug. It i...

Antibiotic efflux pumps expressed in eukaryotic cells can decrease the intracellular accumulation of the corresponding drugs and therefore impair their activity against intracellular bacteria. We have investigated whether verapamil (an inhibitor of P-glycoprotein) and gemfibrozil (an inhibitor of multidrug resistance proteins (MRP) and other organic anion transporters), can modulate the intrace...

Screening chemical libraries to identify compounds that affect overall cell proliferation is common. However, in most cases, it is not known whether the compounds tested alter the timing of particular cell cycle transitions. Here, we evaluated an FDA-approved drug library to identify pharmaceuticals that alter cell cycle progression in yeast, using DNA content measurements by flow cytometry. Th...

The effects of gemfibrozil (GFZ), an antihyperlipidemic agent, on the anionic transport of the human red blood cells (RBC) during the oxygenation-deoxygenation cycle were examined. Gemfibrozil clearly plays a role in the modulation of the anionic flux in erythrocytes; in fact it causes a strong increment of anions transport when the RBCs are in the high-oxygenation state (HOS). Such an effect i...