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Effects of whole deletion of CYP2A6 on nicotine metabolism in humans.
Drug and chemical toxicology - 1 May 2002
Zhang X, Ameno K, Ameno S, Kinoshita H, Kubota T, Kumihashi M, Mostofa J, Iwahashi K, Ijiri I
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We investigated the effects of CYP2A6 genotypes on nicotine metabolism, focused from nicotine to cotinine and its additional 3'-hydroxylating resulted in trans-3'-hydroxycotinine formation. In the subjects genotyped by PCR-RFLP method, one cigarette smoking experiment was performed and urine samples were collected for 24 h. In all subjects who smoked, we detected nicotine, cotinine and trans-3'-hydroxycotinine in...
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