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Pharmacogenetics of classical and new antipsychotic drugs.
Therapeutic drug monitoring - 1 Feb 2000
Otani K, Aoshima T
Abstract excerpt
Several classical antipsychotic drugs, i.e., chlorpromazine, haloperidol, perphenazine, thioridazine and zuclopenthixol; and some new neuroleptic drugs, i.e., risperidone and sertindole, are metabolized predominantly by cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6. Significant relationships have been reported between the steady state plasma concentrations (Css) of some classical neuroleptics and the CYP2D6 activity or genotype....
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