Title : Some aspects of genetic polymorphism in the biotransformation of antidepressants.

Pub. Date : 2004 Jan-Feb

PMID : 15199661






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1 Tricyclic antidepressants are all hydroxylated by cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6, but the tertiary amines, amitriptyline, clomipramine and imipramine, are also N-demethylated to the active metabolites, nortriptyline, N-desmethylclomipramine and desipramine, by several CYPs, including the polymorphic CYP2C19, CYP1A2 and CYP3A4. Imipramine cytochrome P450 family 1 subfamily A member 2 Homo sapiens