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NicotineFiend··on Pharmacokinetics: Drug development's broken stair
Many tricyclic antidepressants metabolized by CYP2D6 would be here, if you put the nonmetabolizers up against the rapid metabolizer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxepin for example.
NicotineFiend··on Pharmacokinetics: Drug development's broken stair
I'm surprised the article didn't mention anything about pharmacogenetics. For example, drug-metabolizing enzyme polymorphisms can often lead to a 10+ fold difference in Cmax (or name the parameter) between a poor and an ultrarapid metabolizer of some enzyme.
NicotineFiend··on 16-year-old arrested in England over felling of famous tree at Hadrian’s Wall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9