Article
Metabolic disposition of imipramine in oriental subjects: relation to metoprolol alpha-hydroxylation and S-mephenytoin 4'-hydroxylation phenotypes.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics - 1 Nov 1994
Koyama E, Sohn D R, Shin S G, Chiba K, Shin J G, Kim Y H, Echizen H, Ishizaki T
Abstract excerpt
We studied the metabolic disposition of imipramine by measuring imipramine and its metabolites in plasma and urine simultaneously after a single oral dose of 25 mg of imipramine hydrochloride administered to 16 healthy (three Japanese and 13 Korean) volunteers. Four of the subjects were poor meta...
Topics
- Adult
- Asian People
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- Dealkylation
- Female
- Humans
- Hydroxylation
- Imipramine
- Isoenzymes
- Male
- Mephenytoin
