a group of enzymes that are found in the liver. They are responsible for processing drugs.
A very important class of enzymes, mainly located in the liver, which break down drugs and toxins so they can be removed from the body more easily.
A family of enzymes found in animals, plants, and bacteria that have an important role in drug metabolism.
A family of membrane-bound hemeproteins that play a key role in the oxidative biotransformation of drugs and a variety of other xenobiotics and endobiotics. Cytochrome P450 is abbreviated CYP.
Cytochrome denotes of any iron containing protein that participates in the oxidation-reduction system involved in electron transfer. P450 is a trivial name for enzymes present in microsomes involved in the detoxification of many drugs.
A family of cytochromes, one of which (CYP2E1) can oxidize alcohol to form acetaldehyde. Most alcohol taken into the body is oxidized by alcohol dehydrogenase; high alcohol levels stimulate CYP2E1 activity.
one of the families of phase one detoxification enzymes.
