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Record W2379944334 · doi:10.1155/2006/736415

Managing Psychotropic Drugs with Efavirenz

2006· article· en· W2379944334 on OpenAlexaff
Rachel Therrien

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MontréalCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEfavirenzPharmacologyCYP2B6BupropionTricyclicCYP3A4Reverse-transcriptase inhibitorDrug interactionDrugMedicineNucleoside Reverse Transcriptase InhibitorPharmacokineticsChemistryCytochrome P450EnzymeHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)BiochemistryVirologyViral loadAntiretroviral therapy

Abstract

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Efavirenz is in the non‐nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor category of HIV antiretroviral medicines. It is an in vivo inducer of the CYP3A4 isoenzyme within the cytochrome P450 (CYP450) system, and an in vitro inhibitor of the system’s CYP2C9/2C19, 3A4 and 2B6 isoenzymes; as a result, concentrations of psychotropic drugs can be increased or decreased depending on the specific enzyme pathway involved in their metabolism. CYP3A4 is responsible for metabolizing many benzodiazepines and other psychotropics, as well as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants. As an inducer of CYP3A4, efavirenz can increase the rate at which these agents are metabolized, resulting in administered psychotropic drug levels that are below their therapeutic thresholds. Conversely, efavirenz is an inhibitor of CYP2B6, which metabolizes agents such as bupropion; consequently, bupropion levels in the blood can increase. Given the existing conflicting data, the clinician may find it impractical to use an evidence‐based approach when concomitantly prescribing efavirenz and psychotropic drugs to their HIV patients. Instead, it may be preferable to use a more pragmatic approach that applies knowledge of the most current pharmacological and pharmacokinetic data for psychotropics and non‐nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, which may help better predict their potential interactions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.234 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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