General factors affecting drug metabolism: effect of physiological factors and disease 1

Published on October 1, 2007 Updated on July 31, 2017   30 min

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Drug-metabolizing enzymes are highly regulated by chemicals in the organisms environment. In this presentation, we'll discuss several physiological and pathophysiological factors that affect drug metabolism in distinct populations.
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This slide lists some of the most important factors. For the purposes of this presentation, I'll focus on the first four of these important regulatory mechanisms: gender, pregnancy, development and aging, and inflammation and infection.
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In most cases, the reason for this regulation is not known, but may be related to the enzymes abilities to catabolize physiological substrates, such as steroids, bile acids and thyroid hormones or to synthesize bioactive metabolites, such as hydroxylated and epoxidized carcinoids. Regardless of the reasons, the potential consequences for human and animal drug therapy for susceptibility to toxicants and for drug development are clear.
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As a general principle, it's important to appreciate that none of these physiological factors affecting drug metabolism operate in isolation. Ultimately, the expression of an enzyme, and therefore, the responses to drugs that it metabolizes will be an integration of all the non-genetic factors that can control the enzyme impinged upon the individual's genetic constitution. So a 50% decrease in the metabolism of a given drug due to, for example, a viral infection might not have a significant effect on most people's response to a drug that has a good safety margin. However, the same infection could have an adverse effect in someone who has a predisposition to metabolize that drug early. For example, someone who is heterozygous for an inactivating mutation in a cytochrome P450 enzyme.

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