The drug’s harmful liver effects come from how the drug is metabolized by the body. The primary culprit appears to be an enzyme called CYP2E1, which breaks acetaminophen down into byproducts that can ...

A team of Northwestern Medicine investigators has discovered novel DNA methylation patterns in the blood of patients with ...

Based on this, Kata Wolff Pedersen concluded that levels of the enzyme CYP2E1 in people with alcohol use were approximately 30 percent higher compared with people without known alcohol consumption.

Medications changed by the liver (Cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) substrates) interacts with CANNABIS Some medications are changed and broken down by the liver. Cannabis might change how quickly the ...