Developmental expression of drug metabolizing enzymes: impact on disposition in neonates and young children.

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Profound changes in drug metabolizing enzyme expression occurs during development that impacts drug efficacy and the risk of adverse events in the neonate and young child. A review of our current knowledge suggests individual hepatic drug metabolizing enzymes can be categorized into one of three classes based on developmental trajectories. The time frame for the perinatal changes observed for both Class 1 and...

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