{"title":"The metabolism of tromantadine.","authors":"C Köppel, J Tenczer, E Rütten, F Klaschka","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The metabolism of the antiviral drug tromantadine (1-adamantyl-2-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)acetamide) was studied after an oral dose of 120 mg tromantadine hydrochloride using capillary gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Most of the dose was excreted unchanged with the urine. Six metabolites could be identified. The main metabolic products were 1-aminoadamantane (amantadine) and 1-adamantyl-(2-hydroxy)acetamide. Further metabolic pathways were demethylation of the dimethylamino function and oxidative desamination to an unstable aldehyde which is oxidized to a carbonic acid or reduced to an alcohol.</p>","PeriodicalId":9006,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical mass spectrometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14067170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The metabolism of tromantadine.","authors":"C. Köppel, J. Tenczer, E. Rütten, F. Klaschka","doi":"10.1002/BMS.1200120909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/BMS.1200120909","url":null,"abstract":"The metabolism of the antiviral drug tromantadine (1-adamantyl-2-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)acetamide) was studied after an oral dose of 120 mg tromantadine hydrochloride using capillary gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Most of the dose was excreted unchanged with the urine. Six metabolites could be identified. The main metabolic products were 1-aminoadamantane (amantadine) and 1-adamantyl-(2-hydroxy)acetamide. Further metabolic pathways were demethylation of the dimethylamino function and oxidative desamination to an unstable aldehyde which is oxidized to a carbonic acid or reduced to an alcohol.","PeriodicalId":9006,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical mass spectrometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81677311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry in Life Sciences. Ghent, Belgium, 15-18 May 1984.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9006,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical mass spectrometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14067166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symposium on mass spectrometry: the search for zero.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9006,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical mass spectrometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18317536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter: Ion monitoring nomenclature.","authors":"B S Middleditch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9006,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical mass spectrometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12309679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}