Firas Al-Niaimi 1, 2 and Calum C. Lyon 3. Firas Al-Niaimi 1 St. Calum C. Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer. Firas Al-Niaimi, Email: moc. Corresponding author. Received Sep 6. Abstract Ciclosporin is widely used in a number of inflammatory disorders and has the potential for drug interactions. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article doi Introduction Ciclosporin is widely used in a number of inflammatory disorders and has the potential for drug interactions [ 1 ].
Case Report A year-old male patient with longstanding atopic dermatitis was referred to the dermatology outpatient department Dermatology Department, York Hospital, UK with a history of rapid deterioration of his condition despite optimal topical therapy. Table 1 The baseline findings for the patient. Open in a separate window.
Discussion A detailed review of pharmacokinetics and metabolism of ciclosporin and sex steroids revealed the likely cause of his acute kidney injury. Conclusion Prior to starting a patient on ciclosporin, a careful drug history should include enquiries about over-the-counter medications and supplements purchased via the Internet. Electronic supplementary material Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material. Supplementary material 1 PDF kb K, pdf.
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Androgenic activity was also determined as proliferative activity in the prostate epithelium. PCNA expression was stimulated dose-dependently after sc and oral administration Fig. Dose-dependent effects of M1T on the proliferation of the prostate epithelium. A, Representative pictures of immunohistochemically stained sections of prostate. Animals were treated as described in Materials and Methods. The weight of the m.
After po administration, a significant stimulation of m. Both were down-regulated dose-dependently after sc and po administration. To identify potential adverse side effects, pathological changes on viscera, i. Neither macroscopic alterations nor pathological alterations or statistically significant effects on heart or liver weight were detected. Histological analysis did not show any signs for hepatic damage. After oral administration, there is a tendency for a dose-dependent down-regulation of TAT starting at 0.
Another metabolite metabolite I was detected and, from its mass spectrum Fig. As expected, the mass spectra of the epimers are found to be very similar. Comparison of RT and ion transitions with those of the reference steroids identified the structures. After separation of the conjugates, M1T and epi-M1T were found in the fraction of unconjugated steroids, whereas the other metabolites were excreted as glucuronides.
All metabolites could be detected up to the last sample collected 87—93 h urine. The kinetics of the urinary excretion is displayed in Fig. The routine doping control urine of , from which the structures of some M1T metabolites were proposed 10 , was reanalyzed, and the proposals were confirmed with the help of the data from the investigation reported herein.
M1T is a designer steroid that is most likely produced to circumvent the legal restrictions for anabolic steroids. However, there is only limited information about its tissue-specific activity, side effects, and metabolism. In the present study, the tissue-selective biological activity, potential adverse effects, and the species-specific metabolism of M1T were investigated to develop analytical tools for its detection.
Figure 1 shows that one of the products sold as dietary supplement, Methyl 1-Testosterone, was found to contain high amounts of M1T. This could be confirmed by GC-MS comparison with the commercially available reference material. The data shown in Fig. This can be taken as a clear indication that M1T could not be classified as prohormone. With respect to its binding and transactivation potency, M1T can be defined to be an anabolic designer steroid and has a comparable or even higher potency than other steroids characterized in a similar design 20 — Figure 2 demonstrates that sc treatment resulted in significantly higher plasma levels of M1T than oral administration.
This indicates a limited oral bioavailability of M1T. However, biological activity of M1T was detectable after both po and sc administration. In general, the intensity of the response of all measured biological endpoints correlated with the corresponding plasma concentrations.
As shown in Fig. Analysis of molecular markers such as the stimulation of proliferation of the prostate epithelium Fig. The prostate epithelium is the most androgen-sensitive part of this organ. Because the epithelial cells represent only a small proportion of the complete organ weight, stimulation of proliferative activity in the epithelium does not necessarily result in an increase of organ weight but is an extremely sensitive marker for anabolic activity.
There is a strong indication for a significant biological effect already at the lowest dose given. These data clearly show that M1T, after oral and sc administration, has a high androgenic potency. To investigate the anabolic potency, the response of the levator ani muscle and the gastrocnemius muscle were compared. Recently, we reported that, in addition to the classical parameter m.
Summarizing these results, our data demonstrate that the anabolic potency of M1T may be more pronounced than its androgenic potency.
However, the substance definitely cannot be defined as a selective AR modulator. To identify potential adverse side effects, pathological changes on viscera, including liver and heart, were investigated. In general, no macroscopic alterations could be observed. Also no significant effects on the absolute and relative heart and liver weight detailed data in Table 1 were determined. The modulation of TAT expression after M1T treatment suggests a functional in vivo interference of the substance with the glucocorticoid receptor GR.
As recently described, the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone THG with a high binding affinity to the GR also decreases TAT expression in the liver However, binding does not activate TAT expression, because it was observed for GR agonistic ligands such as dexamethasone Such a regulatory pattern has been reported to be typical for liver-toxic and carcinogenic substances such as dimethylnitrosamine 27 or xenobiotics such as tolylfluanid and ketoconazole Therefore, our observation can be taken as a direct hint for a potential liver-toxic or carcinogenic activity of M1T.
Most of the compounds had to be synthesized because there are no commercial sources. Because of very low amounts prepared, the products were not amenable to nuclear magnetic resonance analysis. Separation and assignment of the isomers was performed only by GC-MS.
The urinary elimination profile of M1T showed a very quick maximum concentration in the 2- to 5-h urine. The other metabolites had their maximum in urine collected between Due to the limited collection period, the assignment of long-term metabolites remained unclear. However, monitoring the identified metabolites allows us to trace back the administration of M1T from the analysis of urine samples even almost 4 d after administration.
The urinary metabolite pattern in rats differed from that detected in humans. Additionally, a metabolite undetected in the human urine samples was assigned to a Chydroxylated M1T from its fragmentation pattern.
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