Article
Acetylator status of kwashiorkor children in Ibadan (south-west Nigeria).
European journal of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics - 1 Jan 2000
Jeyakumar L H, Arowoshegbe U A, Akinyinka O O, Akinbami F O, Bababunmi E A
Abstract excerpt
Acetylator status was determined in 25 kwashiorkor children, aged between 8 months and 3 years and in 25 age-matched control group of healthy children after a single oral dose of sulphamethazine (40 mg/kg body weight) and by measuring the acetylated sulphamethazine in blood samples, collected 6 h...
Topics
- Acetylation
- Child, Preschool
- Humans
- Infant
- Kwashiorkor
- Nigeria
- Phenotype
- Sulfamethazine