How to Use cyclosporine in a Sentence

cyclosporine

noun
  • One of the tale’s greatest heroes is the drug cyclosporine, approved in 1983 for use in transplants.
    Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Kahwash sent the patient to the lab to get tested for each of them and started her on a higher dose of cyclosporine.
    New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • She was started the same day on high doses of prednisone and cyclosporine, an immune-suppressing medicine often used in transplant patients.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • These drops are called cyclosporine (Restasis) and lifitegrast (Xiidra).
    Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • One example of an immunosuppressant used to help manage atopic dermatitis is the oral medication cyclosporine, says Dr. Libby.
    Jessie Van Amburg, Health.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Fungi are the basis for many drugs, including the antibiotic penicillin, the immunosuppressant cyclosporine and the cholesterol buster lovastatin, so Blanchette wondered if these Antarctic species might produce any useful molecules.
    Peter Andrey Smith, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • The most commonly used systemic medications for pediatric psoriasis include acitretin, methotrexate and cyclosporine, with the latter two drugs causing suppression of the immune system.
    Kate E. Oberlin, M.d., and Lawrence A. Schachner, M.d. taking The Next Steps, miamiherald, 31 July 2017
  • Meanwhile, the results of transplants between humans improved, dialysis was invented to keep alive patients with diseased kidneys, and the drug cyclosporine was developed in 1983, dramatically reducing the rate of organ rejection.
    Joshua Mezrich, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Systemic therapies for psoriasis include oral therapy (such as methotrexate, cyclosporine, oral retinoids, and apremilast) as well as numerous injectable biologic and biosimilar medications.
    Jenna Birch, SELF, 28 Oct. 2019
  • For more widespread disease, systemic therapy is generally required, which can involve either oral medication (like methotrexate, acitretin, or cyclosporine) or injectable biologic medications (like Enbrel, Humira or Stelara).
    Lambeth Hochwald, Health.com, 29 Aug. 2019

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