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Determination of cytochrome P450 3A4/5 activity in vivo with dextromethorphan N-demethylation.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Oct 1996
Jones D R, Gorski J C, Haehner B D, O'Mara E M, Hall S D
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Dextromethorphan is used widely in vivo to phenotype the polymorphically expressed cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6. Dextromethorphan is N-demethylated in vitro to 3-methoxymorphinan by human CYP3A4/5. We examined whether the dextromethorphan/3-methoxymorphinan urinary metabolic ratio (MR) could be used as an in vivo probe of CYP3A. Urinary excretion of 3-methoxymorphinan was excretion rate-limited in extensive...
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