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UGT1A4*3 encodes significantly increased glucuronidation of olanzapine in patients on maintenance treatment and in recombinant systems.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Aug 2012
Haslemo T, Loryan I, Ueda N, Mannheimer B, Bertilsson L, Ingelman-Sundberg M, Molden E, Eliasson E
Abstract excerpt
Olanzapine, a world leader in antipsychotic drugs, is used in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. There is considerable interpatient variability in its hepatic clearance. Polymorphic glucuronidation of olanzapine by uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase 1A4 (UGT1A4) was inv...
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