Applications

Clarithromycin is a semisynthetic macrolide antibiotic that is derived from erythromycin. Clarithromycin may be bacteriostatic or bactericidal depending on the organism and drug concentration . Clarithromycin may be used to attenuate cardiac transplantation rejection via matrix metalloproteinase suppression¹. Clarithromycin has been used to study inflammatory markers in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)². It is used to study bacterial protein synthesis and peptide translation.