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Depot haloperidol treatment in outpatients with schizophrenia on monotherapy: impact of CYP2D6 polymorphism on pharmacokinetics and treatment outcome.
Therapeutic drug monitoring - 1 Aug 2007
Panagiotidis Georgios, Arthur Holger W, Lindh Jonatan D, Dahl Marja-Liisa, Sjöqvist Folke
Abstract excerpt
Haloperidol and several other antipsychotic drugs are at least partially metabolized by the polymorphic cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6). The interindividual variation in metabolic capacity of CYP2D6 might be of importance when dosing. In this study, 26 outpatients with schizophrenia and depot haloperidol as monotherapy were genotyped. The authors found 1 patient with no functional alleles, 8 with one functional...
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