{"title":"Polymorphic acetylation of 7-amino-clonazepam in human liver cytosol.","authors":"D R Peng, C Birgersson, C von Bahr, A Rane","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The N-acetylation of the reduced metabolite of clonazepam 7-amino-clonazepam was studied in cytosolic preparation from human fetal and adult livers. The metabolite formed 7-acetamido-clonazepam was measured with high performance liquid chromatography. A bimodal distribution of the N-acetyltransferase activities was observed in cytosols from human adult livers. These activities were 117 +/- 11 and 27 +/- 16 pmoles X mg-1 X min-1 for rapid and slow acetylators, respectively. The data observed in the fetal specimens did not allow any conclusion about bimodality because of a low number of samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":77932,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric pharmacology (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"4 3","pages":"155-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pediatric pharmacology (New York, N.Y.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The N-acetylation of the reduced metabolite of clonazepam 7-amino-clonazepam was studied in cytosolic preparation from human fetal and adult livers. The metabolite formed 7-acetamido-clonazepam was measured with high performance liquid chromatography. A bimodal distribution of the N-acetyltransferase activities was observed in cytosols from human adult livers. These activities were 117 +/- 11 and 27 +/- 16 pmoles X mg-1 X min-1 for rapid and slow acetylators, respectively. The data observed in the fetal specimens did not allow any conclusion about bimodality because of a low number of samples.