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Pharmacokinetics of tolterodine in Japanese and Koreans: physiological and stochastic assessment of ethnic differences.
Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics - 1 Jun 2011
Oishi Masayo, Chiba Koji, Malhotra Bimal, Suwa Toshio
Abstract excerpt
Tolterodine is known as a drug which exhibits ethnic differences in pharmacokinetics between Japanese and Koreans despite genetic similarities among the populations of East Asian countries. Tolterodine is mainly metabolized by CYP2D6 to a 5-hydroxymethyl metabolite (5-HM), and 5-HM is also metabolized by CYP2D6. The reduced-function allele CYP2D6*10 is frequently observed in Asian populations. We investigated...
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