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BASIC & CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY
Volume 103, Issue 5, Pages 445-449Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2008.00307.x
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- Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway,
- Research Council of Norway
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The in vitro CYP3A4 inhibition profiles of Echinacea purpurea, St. John's wort and ketoconazole were evaluated by three different substrates: 7-benzyloxy-trifluoromethylcoumarin (BFC), 7-benzyloxyquinoline (BQ) and testosterone. St. John's wort and ketoconazole produced similar inhibition profiles regardless of substrate. For E. purpurea, testosterone metabolism showed a much lower CYP3A4 inhibition (IC50 5394 mu g/ml) compared to the fluorescent substrates BFC and BQ (IC50 354 and 452 mg/ml, respectively). It is suggested that the substrate/assay-dependent effects may arise from a complex nature of E. purpurea constituents, involving different CYP3A4 substrate binding sites. The choice of substrate might thus be essential for evaluation of the inhibition of CYP3A4 metabolism for some herbs. A weak inhibition potential of E. purpurea towards CYP3A4-mediated metabolism in vitro was confirmed by the use of three different substrates.
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