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Racial Disparity in Drug Disposition in the Digestive Tract.
International journal of molecular sciences - 21 Jan 2021
Gao Song, Bell Edward C, Zhang Yun, Liang Dong
Abstract excerpt
The major determinants of drug or, al bioavailability are absorption and metabolism in the digestive tract. Genetic variations can cause significant differences in transporter and enzyme protein expression and function. The racial distribution of selected efflux transporter (i.e., Pgp, BCRP, MRP2) and metabolism enzyme (i.e., UGT1A1, UGT1A8) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are highly expressed in the...
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