Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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ISSN: 2155-6148
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ISSN: 2155-6148
+44 1223 790975
Avinash Puri
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,
Chandigarh, 160012
India
Review Article
Pharmacogenetics Variations in Anesthesia
Author(s): Avinash PuriAvinash Puri
Pharmacogenetics is an emerging discipline that attempted to understand the hereditary basis for differences in responsiveness or inter-individual variation to therapeutic agents. It is the study of variability in drug response as a result of heredity factors. The importance for pharmacogenetics for the clinician is to enable optimum therapeutic efficacy, to avoid toxicity of those drugs whose metabolism is catalyzed by polymorphic isoenzymes, and to contribute to the rational design of new drugs... View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-6148.1000233