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One of the most prevalent and interfering psychosocial comorbidities of HIV infection is clinical depression (22 to 45%). For this reason, a study of a possible interaction between the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor nevirapine (NVP) and the tricyclic antidepressant nortriptyline (NT) was carried out. In vitro studies with rat and human hepatic microsomes showed a marked inhibition of NVP metabolism by NT being more intense in rat than in human. The extrapolation of these results to humans suggests increased NVP side effects when both drugs are coadministered, but additional in vivo human studies are required to evaluate the clinical implication of this interaction.This protocol describes a technique for detecting and measuring the inhibition of the nevirapine metabolism by nortriptyline in hepatic microsomes.