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Partial protein binding of uracil and thymine affects accurate dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) phenotyping.
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis - 15 Oct 2024
van den Wildenberg Sebastian A H, Genet Sylvia A A M, Streng Alexander S, Broeren Maarten A C, Deenen Maarten J, van Dongen Joost L J, Brunsveld Luc, Scharnhorst Volkher, van de Kerkhof Daan
Abstract excerpt
Fluorouracil is among the most used antimetabolite drugs for the chemotherapeutic treatment of various types of gastrointestinal malignancies. Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD) genotyping prior to fluorouracil treatment is considered standard practice in most European countries. Yet, current pre-therapeutic DPYD genotyping procedures do not identify all dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD)-deficient...
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