Effects of Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) on Surrogate Markers for Cardiovascular Disease in HIV-1 Infected Patients

Summary

This study is a substudy of the MAN2 -study (Mycophenol mofetil in Antiretroviral Naïve patients 2, see elsewhere in the ClinicalTrials.gov database). In the MAN2 study, HIV-1 infected patients who are not treated with antiretroviral treatment will be randomized to treatment with Mycophenol mofetil (MMF)500 mg BID or a control group without treatment (open label). Both patients randomized to treatment with MMF and patients randomized to the control group will be asked to participate also in this substudy. In this substudy we want to show whether monotherapy with Mycophenol mofetil (MMF) in patients infected with HIV-1 can reduce acceleration of atherogenesis by attenuating various inflammatory pathways normally involved in progression of atherosclerosis.

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2005-04

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Publications

• Background Allison AC, Eugui EM. Mycophenolate mofetil and its mechanisms of action. Immunopharmacology. 2000 May;47(2-3):85-118. doi: 10.1016/s0162-3109(00)00188-0.
• Background Romero F, Rodriguez-Iturbe B, Pons H, Parra G, Quiroz Y, Rincon J, Gonzalez L. Mycophenolate mofetil treatment reduces cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis in the rabbit. Atherosclerosis. 2000 Sep;152(1):127-33. doi: 10.1016/s0021-9150(99)00458-x.
• Background Greenstein SM, Sun S, Calderon TM, Kim DY, Schreiber TC, Schechner RS, Tellis VA, Berman JW. Mycophenolate mofetil treatment reduces atherosclerosis in the cholesterol-fed rabbit. J Surg Res. 2000 Jun 15;91(2):123-9. doi: 10.1006/jsre.2000.5919.

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