Article
Phenotyping of CYP1A2 in Japanese population by analysis of caffeine urinary metabolites: absence of mutation prescribing the phenotype in the CYP1A2 gene.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Jan 2000
Nakajima M, Yokoi T, Mizutani M, Shin S, Kadlubar F F, Kamataki T
Abstract excerpt
Caffeine has been used as a metabolic probe to determine the relative levels of CYP1A2 activity in different individuals, since this compound is specifically 3-demethylated by CYP1A2. Urine specimen obtained at a 4-5-h interval after caffeine ingestion from 205 Japanese were analyzed using the [1...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Caffeine
- Child
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A2
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- DNA
- Female
- Humans
