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CYP3A5*1-carrying graft liver reduces the concentration/oral dose ratio of tacrolimus in recipients of living-donor liver transplantation.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Jul 2004
Goto Maki, Masuda Satohiro, Kiuchi Tetsuya, Ogura Yasuhiro, Oike Fumitaka, Okuda Masahiro, Tanaka Koichi, Inui Ken-ichi
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OBJECTIVES: Tacrolimus is widely used for immunosuppressive therapy after organ transplantation, but its pharmacokinetics shows such great interindividual variation that control of its blood concentration is difficult. We have previously reported that an intestinal P-glycoprotein (MDR1) contributes to this variation as an absorptive barrier, but the role of hepatic metabolism is not clear. METHODS: In this study,...
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