Article
Quinidine-enhanced beta-blockade during treatment with propafenone in extensive metabolizer human subjects.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Jan 1994
Mörike K E, Roden D M
Abstract excerpt
Propafenone, a sodium channel blocking antiarrhythmic drug with beta-blocking properties, is metabolized to non-beta-blocking metabolites in part by cytochrome P4502D6. Subtherapeutic doses of quinidine inhibit P4502D6 and increase plasma propafenone in extensive metabolizer subjects, in whom the...
Topics
- Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
- Adult
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- Double-Blind Method
- Drug Synergism
- Exercise
- Female
- Heart Rate
- Humans
- Isoproterenol
- Male
- Mixed Function Oxygenases
- Phenotype
- Propafenone
- Quinidine
- Stereoisomerism
