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Failure of erythromycin breath test to correlate with midazolam clearance as a probe of cytochrome P4503A.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Sept 1999
Kinirons M T, O'Shea D, Kim R B, Groopman J D, Thummel K E, Wood A J, Wilkinson G R
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BACKGROUND: Cytochrome P4503A (CYP3A) activity exhibits considerable interindividual variability, and an in vivo probe to measure such differences would serve several purposes. The erythromycin breath test (ERBT) is an established approach that has proven useful in this regard, but it has several limitations. More recently, the hydroxylation of midazolam has been suggested as an alternative in vivo probe...
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