pharmacoenhancer

noun

Any substance that enhances the efficacy of a drug

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Meanings

nounpharmacoenhancer (plural pharmacoenhancers)

plural pharmacoenhancers

  1. Any substance that enhances the efficacy of a drug

    However, as EVG is co-administered with other antiretroviral drugs and pharmacoenhancer such as COBI or RTV, it is expected that these combination therapies may alter the inhibitory effects of EVG on the CYP3A4 enzyme [1 ] at least during the acute phase of drug exposure.

    2016 February 13, “Effect of Ethanol on the Metabolic Characteristics of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor Elvitegravir and Elvitegravir/Cobicistat with CYP3A: An Analysis Using a Newly Developed LC-MS/MS Method”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From pharmaco- + enhancer.

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