Grapefruit Juice Effect

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The effect that grapefruit juice has on the body, in particular, by increasing the effects of some drugs, due to the bergamottin in grapefruit juice, which blocks cytochrome P-450 CYP3A4 and CYP1A2, which in turn increases the serum levels of those drugs metabolised by those cytochrome P-450 pathways serum levels of certain drugs

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