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ReviewPharmaceutics2021

Assessing the Mechanism of Fluoxetine-Mediated CYP2D6 Inhibition.

Malavika Deodhar, Sweilem B Al Rihani, Lucy Darakjian, Jacques Turgeon, Veronique Michaud

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In one paragraph

Review in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Serotonin Syndrome Versus Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome in a Pediatric Patient Receiving Fluoxetine and Haloperidol: A Case Report.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2025
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  15. Clinical effects of CYP2D6 phenoconversion in patients with psychosis.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Malavika DeodharPrecision Pharmacotherapy Research and Development Institute, Tabula Rasa Health Care, Lake Nona, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1661-6518
Sweilem B Al RihaniPrecision Pharmacotherapy Research and Development Institute, Tabula Rasa Health Care, Lake Nona, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2415-4664
Lucy DarakjianPrecision Pharmacotherapy Research and Development Institute, Tabula Rasa Health Care, Lake Nona, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.
Jacques TurgeonPrecision Pharmacotherapy Research and Development Institute, Tabula Rasa Health Care, Lake Nona, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.
Veronique MichaudPrecision Pharmacotherapy Research and Development Institute, Tabula Rasa Health Care, Lake Nona, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.
Research & Development Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluoxetine is still one of the most widely used antidepressants in the world. The drug is extensively metabolized by several cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes and subjected to a myriad of CYP450-mediated drug interactions. In a multidrug regimen, preemptive mitigation of drug-drug interactions requires knowledge of fluoxetine actions on these CYP450 enzymes. The major metabolic pathway of fluoxetine leading to the formation of its active metabolite, norfluoxetine, is mediated by CYP2D6. Fluoxetine and norfluoxetine are strong affinity substrates of CYP2D6 and can inhibit, potentially through various mechanisms, the metabolism of other sensitive CYP2D6 substrates. Remarkably, fluoxetine-mediated CYP2D6 inhibition subsides long after fluoxetine first passes through the liver and even remains long after the discontinuation of the drug. Herein, we review pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic information to help us understand the mechanisms underlying the prolonged inhibition of CYP2D6 following fluoxetine administration. We propose that long-term inhibition of CYP2D6 is likely a result of competitive inhibition. This is due to strong affinity binding of fluoxetine and norfluoxetine to the enzyme and unbound fluoxetine and norfluoxetine levels circulating in the blood for a long period of time because of their long elimination half-life. Additionally, we describe that fluoxetine is a CYP2C9 substrate and a mechanism-based inhibitor of CYP2C19.

Indexed as

competitive inhibitionCYP2D6drug interactionsfluoxetinemechanism-based inhibitionmetabolismnorfluoxetine

Identifiers

PMID33498694
PMCPMC7912198
OpenAlexW3123280459

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