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Association of the ABCB1 3435C>T polymorphism with antiemetic efficacy of 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 antagonists.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Dec 2005
Babaoglu Melih O, Bayar Banu, Aynacioglu A Sukru, Kerb Reinhold, Abali Huseyin, Celik Ismail, Bozkurt Atila
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BACKGROUND: Resistance to antiemetic treatment with 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 (5-HT(3)) receptor antagonists is still a major problem resulting in patient discomfort and poor compliance to chemotherapy. We hypothesized that clinical resistance to 5-HT(3) antagonists is associated with the single-nucleotide polymorphism (3435C>T) in the gene that codes for the drug efflux transporter adenosine...
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