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Association of nicotine metabolism and sex with relapse following varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy.
Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology - 1 Oct 2017
Glatard Anaïs, Dobrinas Maria, Gholamrezaee Mehdi, Lubomirov Rubin, Cornuz Jacques, Csajka Chantal, Eap Chin B
Abstract excerpt
Nicotine is metabolized into cotinine and then into trans-3'-hydroxycotinine, mainly by cytochrome P450 2A6. Recent studies reported better effectiveness of varenicline in women and in nicotine normal metabolizers phenotypically determined by nicotine-metabolite ratio. Our objective was to study the influence of nicotine-metabolite ratio, CYP2A6 genotype and sex on the response to nicotine replacement therapy and...
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