Metabolism of (R)-(+)-pulegone and (R)-(+)-menthofuran by human liver cytochrome P-450s: Evidence for formation of a furan epoxide

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 574-580

  Khojasteh Bakht, Siamak C ^a   Chen, Weiqiao ^a   Koenigs, Luke L ^a   Peter, Raimund M ^a   Nelson, Sidney D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; FURAN DERIVATIVE; MENTHOFURAN; PULEGONE;

ARTICLE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG OXIDATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME MECHANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; FURANS; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; LIVER; MENTHOL; MONOTERPENES; NECROSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOISOMERISM; TERPENES;

EID: 0032960136     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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