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Poor Metaboliser

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Poor Metaboliser
A person who metabolises a probe drug—the rate of which is related to the metabolising cytochrome P-450 enzyme—slower than others; a person can be a poor metaboliser of one probe drug, and an extensive metaboliser of another


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Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with codeine for postoperative pain relief in ten extensive metabolisers and one poor metaboliser of dextromethorphan.
Colour is thought to show your constitutional leanings: so the brown- eyed, for example, tend to be poor metabolisers of fats; the blue-eyed are liable to develop acid conditions such as arthritis; while those with mixed irises tend to suffer poor digestion.
 
 
 
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