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Metabolic disposition of imipramine in oriental subjects: relation to metoprolol alpha-hydroxylation and S-mephenytoin 4'-hydroxylation phenotypes.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics - 1 Nov 1994
Koyama E, Sohn D R, Shin S G, Chiba K, Shin J G, Kim Y H, Echizen H, Ishizaki T
Abstract excerpt
We studied the metabolic disposition of imipramine by measuring imipramine and its metabolites in plasma and urine simultaneously after a single oral dose of 25 mg of imipramine hydrochloride administered to 16 healthy (three Japanese and 13 Korean) volunteers. Four of the subjects were poor metabolizers (PMs) of metoprolol but extensive metabolizers (EMs) of S-mephenytoin (PMML/EMMP), five subjects were EMs of...
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