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Equine cytochrome P450 2B6--genomic identification, expression and functional characterization with ketamine.
Toxicology and applied pharmacology - 1 Jan 2013
Peters L M, Demmel S, Pusch G, Buters J T M, Thormann W, Zielinski J, Leeb T, Mevissen M, Schmitz A
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Ketamine is an anesthetic and analgesic regularly used in veterinary patients. As ketamine is almost always administered in combination with other drugs, interactions between ketamine and other drugs bear the risk of either adverse effects or diminished efficacy. Since cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs) play a pivotal role in the phase I metabolism of the majority of all marketed drugs, drug-drug interactions often...
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