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Biochemical basis for deficient paracetamol glucuronidation in cats: an interspecies comparison of enzyme constraint in liver microsomes.
The Journal of pharmacy and pharmacology - 1 Apr 1997
Court M H, Greenblatt D J
Abstract excerpt
Unlike most other mammalian species, domestic cats glucuronidate phenolic compounds poorly and are therefore highly susceptible to the toxic side effects of many drugs, including paracetamol. In this study, we evaluated the role of enzyme constraint, a characteristic that limits the activity of all uridine 5'-diphosphoglucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzymes, in the aetiology of this species-dependent defect of drug...
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