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Medicinal importance of grapefruit juice and its interaction with various drugs

Grapefruit juice is consumed widely in today's health conscious world as a protector against cardiovascular diseases and cancers. It has however, been found to be an inhibitor of the intestinal cytochrome P – 450 3A4 system, which is responsible for the first pass metabolism of many drugs. The...

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Autores principales: Kiani, Jawad, Imam, Sardar Z
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2147024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17971226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-6-33