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Mechanisms of idiosyncratic hypersensitivity reactions to antiepileptic drugs.
Epilepsia - 1 Jan 1998
Leeder J S
Abstract excerpt
Hypersensitivity reactions to the aromatic antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) phenytoin (PHT) and carbamazepine (CBZ) appear to have an immune etiology. Current models of drug hypersensitivity center around the concept of drug bioactivation to reactive metabolites that irreversibly modify cellular proteins. These modified proteins are believed to initiate (or serve as targets of) an autoimmune-like attack on specific...
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