Ivermectin Alcohol

Glycine receptor function is modulated by alcohols and anesthetics [4]. Amino acid residue al(S267) is critical for alcohol potentiation, as mutation to small residues (Gly, Ala) enhance, and mutation to large residues (His, Cys, Tyr) diminish the ethanol effect. Glycine recqrtor modulation by Zn2+ involves structural determinants located within the large N-terminal domain. Additional glycinergic modulators include neuroactive steroids and the anthelmintic, ivermectin, which activates glycine receptors by a novel, strychnine-insensitive mechanism. 

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Clinically important, potentially hazardous interactions with alcohol, aprepitant, clarithromycin, CNS depressants, delavirdine, digoxin, efavirenz, fluconazole, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, grapefruit juice, indinavir, itraconazole, ivermectin, kava, ketoconazole, propoxyphene, ritonavir, saquinavir, St John s wort... 

Clinically important, potentially hazardous interactions with alcohol, amprenavir, barbiturates, buprenorphine, chlorpheniramine, clarithromycin, CNS depressants, efavirenz, esomeprazole, eucalyptus, fluoroquinolones, imatinib, indinavir, ivermectin, macrolide antibiotics, MAO inhibitors, methadone, mianserin, nalbuphine, narcotics, nelfinavir, nilutamide, phenothiazines, ritonavir, SSRIs... 

Ivermectin is rapidly absorbed, is bound to a great extent to plasma protein, and is excreted in the urine or feces either unchanged or as the 3 -0-demethyl-22,23-dihydroavermectin Bia or as the dihydroavermectin Bia monosaccharide. The absorption of IVM is significantly affected by the presence of alcohol. Administration of IVM as an alcoholic solution may result in as much as a 100% increase in absorption. 

Shu EN, Onwujekwe EO, Okonkwo PO. Do alcoholic beverages enhance availability of ivermectin EurJ Clin Pharmacol (2000) 56, 437-8. 

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