Osimertinib in Patients With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation–Positive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Leptomeningeal Metastases: The BLOOM Study The 6-month discontinuation rates of tamoxifen ...

Owing to its highly polymorphic nature and major contribution to the metabolism and bioactivation of numerous clinically used drugs, CYP2D6 is one of the most extensively studied drug-metabolizing ...

Life-threatening opioid intoxication developed in a patient after he was given small doses of codeine for the treatment of a cough associated with bilateral pneumonia. Codeine is bioactivated by ...

For older nursing home (NH) residents, use of CYP2D6-metabolized opioids concomitantly with CYP2D6-inhibiting antidepressants is associated with worsening pain and increased risk of opioid-related ...

In recent years, scientists discovered that an enzyme called CYP2D6 could possibly predict whether a patient would respond to the drug. Small studies aimed at confirming the predictive link, however, ...

Functional Activity of the OCT-1 Protein Is Predictive of Long-Term Outcome in Patients With Chronic-Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treated With Imatinib Evidence has emerged that the clinical benefit ...

(A) Transgene structures for the expression of the exogenous FLAG-tagged CYP2D6 protein or the IRES-based co-expression of the human hepatic CYP2D6 and GFP proteins. (B) Phase contrast images of the ...

Accurate prediction of CYP2D6 activity from genotype data is of utmost importance as CYP2D6 pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing is increasingly used to guide drug therapy. However, given the complexity of ...

Aim We sought to discover endogenous urinary biomarkers of human CYP2D6 activity. Patients & Methods Healthy pediatric subjects (n = 189) were phenotyped using dextromethorphan and randomized for ...

—New research uncovers a possible link between CYP2D6 activity and the development of tardive dyskinesia in certain patients taking antipsychotics. Reviewed by Nicole Foubister, Clinical Assistant ...