Publication
Title
In vitro Phase I and Phase II metabolism of alpha-pyrrolidinovalerophenone (alpha-PVP), methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and methedrone by human liver microsomes and human liver cytosol
Author
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to identify the in vitro Phase I and Phase II metabolites of three new psychoactive substances: alpha-pyrrolidinovalerophenone (alpha-PVP), methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), and methedrone, using human liver microsomes and human liver cytosol. Accurate-mass spectra of metabolites were obtained using liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Six Phase I metabolites of alpha-PVP were identified, which were formed involving reduction, hydroxylation, and pyrrolidine ring opening reactions. The lactam compound was the major metabolite observed for alpha-PVP. Two glucuronidated metabolites of alpha-PVP, not reported in previous in vitro studies, were further identified. MDPV was transformed into 10 Phase I metabolites involving reduction, hydroxylation, and loss of the pyrrolidine ring. Also, six glucuronidated and two sulphated metabolites were detected. The major metabolite of MDPV was the catechol metabolite. Methedrone was transformed into five Phase I metabolites, involving N- and O-demethylation, hydroxylation, and reduction of the ketone group. Three metabolites of methedrone are reported for the first time. In addition, the contribution of individual human CYP enzymes in the formation of the detected metabolites was investigated.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry / Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker. - Heidelberg, 2002, currens
Publication
Heidelberg : Springer , 2015
ISSN
1618-2642 [print]
1618-2650 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S00216-015-8763-6
Volume/pages
407 :19 (2015) , p. 5803-5816
ISI
000358136900024
Pubmed ID
26014283
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
Full text (open access)
Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
Advanced tools for exposure assessment and biomonitoring (A-TEAM).
Publication type
Subject
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
Record
Identifier
Creation 03.09.2015
Last edited 09.10.2023
To cite this reference