High on Cannabis and Calcineurin Inhibitors: A Word of Warning in an Era of Legalized Marijuana

Tacrolimus, a potent immunosuppressant medication, acts by inhibiting calcineurin, which eventually leads to inhibition of T-cell activation. The drug is commonly used to prevent graft rejection in solid organ transplant and graft-versus-host disease in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients. T...

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Main Authors: Naomi Hauser, Tanmay Sahai, Rocco Richards, Todd Roberts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Transplantation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4028492
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