文摘
Despite appropriate use of antiemetics including 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 (5-HT3) receptor antagonists, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is still an unsolved problem in patients with anticancer drugs. We examined whether the variants of ABCB1, CYP2D6 and HTR3B affect efficacy of ramosetron, a selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist in a dose escalation clinical trial.