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Cytochrome 1A1 and 1B1 gene diversity in the Zanzibar islands.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 Jul 2012
Cavaco I, Piedade R, Msellem M I, Bjorkman A, Gil J P
Abstract excerpt
Amodiaquine (AQ) is a 4-aminoquinoline widely used in the treatment of malaria as part of the artemisinin combination therapy (ACT). AQ is metabolised towards its main metabolite desethylamodiaquine mainly by cytochrome P450 2C8 (CYP2C8). CYP1A1 and CYP1B1 play a minor role in the metabolism but they seem to be significantly involved in the formation of the short-lived quinine-imine. To complete the genetic...
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