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Cytochrome p450 phenotyping/genotyping in patients receiving antipsychotics: useful aid to prescribing?
Clinical pharmacokinetics - 1 Jan 2002
Dahl Marja-Liisa
Abstract excerpt
Many antipsychotics, including perphenazine, zuclopenthixol, thioridazine, haloperidol and risperidone, are metabolised to a significant extent by the polymorphic cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6, which shows large interindividual variation in activity. Significant relationships between CYP2D6 genotype and steady-state concentrations have been reported for perphenazine, zuclopenthixol, risperidone and haloperidol when...
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