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Effects of grapefruit juice and SLCO1B1 388A>G polymorphism on the pharmacokinetics of pitavastatin.
Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics - 1 Jan 2013
Hu Miao, Mak Valiant Wah Lun, Yin Ophelia Qi Ping, Chu Tanya Ten Wah, Tomlinson Brian
Abstract excerpt
Pitavastatin undergoes little hepatic metabolism but it is a substrate for uptake and efflux transporters, particularly OATP1B1 (gene SLCO1B1). A previous study in 8 Japanese healthy subjects showed that co-administration with grapefruit juice (GFJ) resulted in a small increase in systemic exposure to pitavastatin. We examined whether common polymorphisms in SLCO1B1 might influence the pharmacokinetics of...
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