Pharmacology-Anti-HIV Agents Flashcards
What are the fusion inhibitors?
Enfuviride
Maraviroc
What are the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors?
zidovudin Didanosine Lamivudine Stavudine Abacavir
What are the Nucleotide inhibitors?
Tenofovir
What are the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors?
Nevirapine
Delavirdine
Efvirenz
What are the integrase inhibitors?
Raltegravir
What are the protease inhibitors??
Atazanavir Saquinavir Ritonavir Lopinavir Indinavir Nelfinavir
What are the goals of therapy?
Improvement of quality of life
reduction of HIV related morbidity and morality
Restoration and or preservation of immunologic function
Maximal and durable suppression of Viral load
What are the tools to achieve Goals?
Selection of ARV regimen
Preservation of future treatment options
Rational sequencing of therapy
Maximizing adherence
Use of resistance testing in selected clinical settings
What are the parts of initiation?
attachment
penetration
uncoating
What are the steps in Release?
assembly
maturation
exit from cell
What is the mechanism of Enfuviritde adn what type of antiretroviral is it?
-increases the effectiveness of HAART in combo chemotherapy
-Binds ot GP41 of hte bviral envelope
-prevents conformational change and impedes the fusion of hte viral and host cell memranes
Fusion inhibitors
What are the resistance mechanisms for Enfuviride?
pg41 mutations may develop when drug is given at suboptiaml doses as monotherapy
-No cross resistance with other HIV agents
What are the ADMEs of Enfuvirtide?
- Subcu
- High protein binding
- Metabolized by proteolytic hydrolysis (no involvement of cyt P450)
What are the adverse effects of Enfuvirtide?
- injection-site rxns (lrg # of pts. )
- Hypersensitivity rxnn (occurs rarely <1%)
- increased risk of bacterial pneumonia (8x more frequently than placebo)
What is Maraviroc, and what is its mechanism of action?
Fusion Inhibitor
- chemokine receptor 5 antagonist
- binds ot CCR5 co-receptor
- prevents virus form entering the host cell
What are the ADMEs of Maraviroc?
-Oral
-Substrate for both CYP3A4 and P-glycoprotein
T 1/2— 14-18 h
-both feces adn urine
Why would you use Maraviroc?
- txment of CCR5-tropic HI-1 (not CXCR4)
- in combo for patients failing other antiretroviral drugs
- Only ~50% of txment experienced pts will be eligible to take
What are the adverse effects of Maraviroc?
- cough, pyrexia, rash, musculoskeletal symptoms, abdominal pain and psotural dizzziness, bladder irritation
- Phase II studies reported possible liver and cardiac problems (1.3%)
What are the drug interactions of Maraviroc??
CYP3A4 inducers or inhibitors
-dosage adjustment needed with efavirenx and lopinavir/ritonavir
What are the combination therapies used for NRTIs?
Combirvir (AZT+3TC) (Zidovudine+ Lamivudine)
Trizivir (AZT+3TC+ABC)(Zidovudine+ Lamivudine+ Abacavir)
What is the mechanism of action of the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs)?
- analogs of naturally occuring nucleosides (3’ hydroxyl replaced by an azido, hydrogen or other )
- competitive inhibitor of viral reverse transcriptase
- DNA chain terminator
How does do the NRTIs work (2 steps)
Triphosphate competes with native nucleotides
incorporation and chain termination
What are the properties of Zidovudine and Stavudine?
- analogs of pyrimidine nucleoside (T)
- phosphorylated to active triphosphate forms
- competes with deoxythymidine thriphosphate for incorporation into DNA
What are the properties of Lamivudin adn Emtricitabine?
- Analogous of pyrimiden nucleoside (C)
- compete with deoxycytidine triphosphate for incorportation into viral DNA
What are the properties of Didanosine?
Alalog of purine nucleosides (A,G)
-Active 2’ 3’- dideoxyadenosine 5’- triphosphate (ddATP) competes iwth cellular deoxyaadenosine triphosphate for incorporation into viral DNA
What are the properties of Abacavir?
analog of purine nucleosides (G)
What are theindications of NRTIs?
- management of HIV infection as components of combination HAART
- prevent acute infection of susceptible cells
- little effect on cells already infected by HIB
- Zidovudine (only NRTI shown to reduce perinatal HIV transmission )
What are the resistance mechanisms for NRTIs?
drugs select for differnet mutations of the reverse transcriptase gene at the level of specific codons
What two drugs have AUC changes due to meals and what are they?
Zidovudine: v 24 (high fat)
Didanosine: v 50% (acidity)
What is important about the metabolism adn renal excretion of Abacavir?
metabolism >80%
renal excretion <5% of parent drug
How is Zidovudine metabolized?
glucuronidation
What are the pharmacological propertis of NRTIs?
- good oral absorption
- poor bindding to plama proteins
- metabolism does not rely on CYP450 system
- excteted unchanged in urine except (zidovudine and abacavir)
- Didanosine is acid labile (~take 1/2 h beofre or 2 h after meals)
How is Abacavir metabolized?
by alcohol dehydrogenase
What are the common adverse effects of NRTIs?
-GI distress
Lactic acidosis with hepatic steatosis due to mitochondrial toxicity
-higher with stavudine
Lipodystropy (most common with stavudine and zidocudine)