“…MDZ is rapidly and extensively metabolized by the liver and intestinal microsomal enzymes (Heizmann and Ziegler, 1981;Kronbach et al, 1989). Many factors, such as age and sex (Hunt et al, 1992;Gibbs and Hosea, 2003;Wojnowski, 2004;Cotreau et al, 2005), concomitant medication (von Moltke et al, 1996), and hepatic function (Gibbs and Hosea, 2003), may influence the activity of CYP3A isoforms.…”