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Pharmacogenetics and Treatment Response in Narcolepsy Type 1: Relevance of the Polymorphisms of the Drug Transporter Gene ABCB1.
Clinical neuropharmacology - 1 Jan 2000
Moresco Monica, Riccardi Laura Natalia, Pizza Fabio, Zenesini Corrado, Caporali Leonardo, Plazzi Giuseppe, Pelotti Susi
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic hypersomnia clinically characterized by daytime sleepiness and cataplexy. Narcolepsy type 1 treatments target individual symptoms: wake-promoting agents (eg, modafinil) are effective for sleepiness, antidepressants (eg, venlafaxine) on cataplexy, whereas sodium oxybate on both. Narcolepsy type 1 patients variably respond to modafinil and venlafaxine independently of...
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