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Interplay of Drug Metabolizing CYP450 Enzymes and ABC Transporters in the Blood-Brain Barrier
1 Oct 2011
Abstract excerpt
The recent identification of drug-metabolizing enzymes cytochrome P450 (CYP) in the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) raises the question of whether these enzymes act in concert with ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters to limit the brain distributions of drugs. We recently demonstrated several CYP genes in freshly isolated human brain microvessels; the main isoforms expressed were CYP1B1 and CYP2U1. Many...
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