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Prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting with granisetron and dolasetron in relation to CYP2D6 genotype.
Anesthesia and analgesia - 1 Apr 2006
Janicki Piotr K, Schuler H Gregg, Jarzembowski Tomasz M, Rossi Malina
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the efficacy of granisetron and dolasetron in preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting. Because the metabolism of the various antiemetic 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 (5-HT3) antagonists involves different isoforms of the hepatic cytochrome P450 system, we examined the relationship between the clinical efficacy of these drugs and polymorphic cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) genotype. This...
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