How to Use cyclosporine in a Sentence

cyclosporine

noun
  • Schreiber liked the idea of studying a new drug without cyclosporine’s long history.
    — Gary Taubes, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • One of the tale’s greatest heroes is the drug cyclosporine, approved in 1983 for use in transplants.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • These drops are called cyclosporine (Restasis) and lifitegrast (Xiidra).
    — Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Examples of calcineurin inhibitors include cyclosporine and Prograf (tacrolimus).
    — Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2025
  • After that, Verghese said doctors typically try calcineurin inhibitors like tacrolimus or cyclosporine, which suppress the immune system, and then rituximab.
    — Tara Bannow, STAT, 2 Mar. 2023
  • When people are receiving cyclosporine therapy to prevent rejection, magnesium can reduce the thickening of the kidney's vascular walls that the therapy can cause.
    — Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Some immunosuppressants a healthcare provider may prescribe include cyclosporine or hydroxychloroquine.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Voclosporin is chemically similar to cyclosporine but has been modified to exhibit more predictable pharmacokinetics, resulting in steadier blood levels and fewer dose adjustments.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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