Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation

This thesis has highlighted the role of BCRP as a potential significant mediator of drug movement from mother to baby through breastmilk. However, it was also shown that only epithelial cells collected from breastmilk represent expression of efflux proteins but the same cells propagated in culture l...

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Main Author: Ahmadzai, Hilai
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82266
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description This thesis has highlighted the role of BCRP as a potential significant mediator of drug movement from mother to baby through breastmilk. However, it was also shown that only epithelial cells collected from breastmilk represent expression of efflux proteins but the same cells propagated in culture lose their in-vivo characteristics. The need for better lactation related medication safety data and pharmacovigilance was also highlighted as infant ADRs attributed to breastfeeding were shown to be underreported.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-822662022-12-15T06:31:47Z Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation Ahmadzai, Hilai This thesis has highlighted the role of BCRP as a potential significant mediator of drug movement from mother to baby through breastmilk. However, it was also shown that only epithelial cells collected from breastmilk represent expression of efflux proteins but the same cells propagated in culture lose their in-vivo characteristics. The need for better lactation related medication safety data and pharmacovigilance was also highlighted as infant ADRs attributed to breastfeeding were shown to be underreported. 2020 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82266 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Ahmadzai, Hilai
Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation
title Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation
title_full Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation
title_fullStr Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation
title_full_unstemmed Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation
title_short Maternal Medication Use and the Risk to Breastfed Infants: A Focus on Active Efflux Transporters and Changes in Expression During the Course of Lactation
title_sort maternal medication use and the risk to breastfed infants: a focus on active efflux transporters and changes in expression during the course of lactation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82266