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[CYP2D6-, CYP2C9- and CYP2C19-based dose adjustments: when do they make sense?].
Der Internist - 1 Jul 2008
Seeringer A, Kirchheiner J
Abstract excerpt
The efficacy of a drug therapy is influenced by many different factors such as age, weight, comorbidity and co-medication, which vary between patients, as well as fixed parameters such as gender and pharmacogenetic characteristics. Many enzymes involved in drug metabolism are genetically polymorphic, which means that their activity differs depending on a certain genotype. Drugs will be metabolized slowly in...
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