PXR variants: the impact on drug metabolism and therapeutic responses

The pregnane X receptor (PXR) plays an important and diverse role in mediating xenobiotic induction of drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters. Several protein isoforms of PXR exist, and they have differential transcriptional activity upon target genes; transcript variants 3 (PXR3) and 4 (PXR4) d...

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Main Authors: C. Trent Brewer, Taosheng Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-09-01
Series:Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211383516300806