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Challenges for drug studies in children: CYP3A phenotyping as example.
Drug discovery today - 1 Jan 2009
de Wildt Saskia N, Ito Shinya, Koren Gideon
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A paucity of data exists on the disposition and effect of drugs in young children. This information gap can be reduced by elucidating developmental principles of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) in vivo. Such knowledge might enable the prediction of the disposition of individual drugs in children over the whole pediatric age range. CYP3A, the most abundant human drug metabolizing enzyme,...
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