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Drug extrapyramidal side-effects or not: is there a dextromethorphan phenotype difference?
Therapie - 1 Jan 2000
Vandel P, Haffen E, Vandel S, Bonin B, Sechter D, Bizouard P, Dalery J
Abstract excerpt
A recent hypothesis suggests the possible role of cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) polymorphism (involved in the metabolism of a large number of drugs), as a potential risk factor for the development of extrapyramidal side-effects of psychotropic drugs. The CYP2D6 metabolizer phenotype (dextromethorphan test) of 31 drug treated psychiatric adult patients suffering from extrapyramidal side-effects (group 1) and of 31...
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