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Published online 19 April 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060417-3
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Urine test predicts drug response
Metabolic fingerprint could help match medicines to patients.
A simple urine test could show which drugs are best suited to a person's body, say researchers who have shown that the technique works in animals.
The investigators found that the fingerprint of molecules in rat urine foretells whether or not a high dose of the painkiller paracetamol (also called acetaminophen) will poison the animals' livers, because it reveals how well the body can process the drug.
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