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Effects of genotypic differences in CYP2C19 status on cure rates for Helicobacter pylori infection by dual therapy with rabeprazole plus amoxicillin.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Jun 2001
Furuta T, Shirai N, Takashima M, Xiao F, Hanai H, Nakagawa K, Sugimura H, Ohashi K, Ishizaki T
Abstract excerpt
Rabeprazole is a potent proton pump inhibitor and is mainly reduced to thioether rabeprazole by a non-enzymatic pathway and partially metabolized to demethylated rabeprazole by CYP2C19 in the liver. We intended to determine a cure rate for Helicobacter pylori infection by dual rabeprazole/amoxicillin therapy in relation to CYP2C19 genotype status prospectively. Ninety-seven patients with gastritis and H. pylori...
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