A multi-system approach assessing the interaction of anticonvulsants with P-gp.

30% of epilepsy patients receiving antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are not fully controlled by therapy. The drug transporter hypothesis for refractory epilepsy proposes that P-gp is over expressed at the epileptic focus with a role of P-gp in extruding AEDs from the brain. However, there is controversy r...

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Main Authors: David Dickens, Siti R Yusof, N Joan Abbott, Babette Weksler, Ignacio A Romero, Pierre-Olivier Couraud, Ana Alfirevic, Munir Pirmohamed, Andrew Owen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064854&type=printable
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