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Interaction of ibuprofen and probenecid with drug metabolizing enzyme phenotyping procedures using caffeine as the probe drug.
British journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Feb 2003
Vrtic Fatima, Haefeli Walter E, Drewe Jürgen, Krähenbühl Stephan, Wenk Markus
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To examine the suspected inhibitory potential of the over-the-counter (OTC) drug ibuprofen on N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) in vitro and in vivo and the possible implications for phenotyping procedures using caffeine as probe drug. METHODS: We first studied the inhibitory effect of ibuprofen on NAT2 in vitro, using human liver cytosol and sulfamethazine as substrate. In vivo 15 fast and 15 slow acetylating...
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