Article
Genetic polymorphism of cytochrome P450. Functional consequences and possible relationship to disease and alcohol toxicity.
EXS - 1 Jan 1994
Ingelman-Sundberg M, Johansson I, Persson I, Oscarson M, Hu Y, Bertilsson L, Dahl M L, Sjöqvist F
Abstract excerpt
The hepatic cytochrome P450 system participates in the oxidative metabolism of numerous endogenous and exogenous compounds. In total several hundred different P450s have been cloned, but it appears that in humans only about 5-10 isoforms account for the major part of drug metabolism. Some of these are polymorphically distributed in the population. Cytochrome P450 2D6 catalyzes the oxidation of over 25 clinically...
Topics
- Animals
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- Enzyme Induction
- Ethanol
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genotype
- Humans
- Liver Diseases, Alcoholic
- Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating
