1970 年 90 巻 3 号 p. 302-307
Absorption, excretion and metabolism of 2-amino-3-ethoxycarbonyl-6-benzyl-4, 5, 6, 7-tetrahydrothieno [2, 3-c] pyridine (Y-3642) were investigated using the radioactive compound (14C-Y-3642) in mice. Excretion of radioactivity (14C) was about 48% in urine, 49% in feces, within 3 days after oral administration of 14C-Y-3642 at the dose of 100mg/kg. When this compound was administered intraperitoneally, the same amount of 14C were excreted in urine and feces. Urinary 14C was extracted with chloroform : 6-11% from alkaline urine (F-1) and 68-76% from acid urine (F-2). According to the analysis of thin-layer chromatography and inverse isotope dilution method, 17-29% of 14C in F-1 was 14C-Y-3642, 48-59% of 14C in F-2 was 14C-hippuric acid, 4-6% of it was 14C-benzoic acid and 1-2% of 14C in the aqueous residue was 14C-benzoyl glucuronide. Furthermore in the case of direct analysis of urinary 14C, 0.4-1% of 14C in urine was 14C-Y-3642 and 42-50% was 14C-hippuric acid. Unchanged 14C-Y-3642 was found in the brain, but 14C-benzoic acid and 14C-hippuric acid mainly existed in the liver and kidney after oral administration of 14C-Y-3642 in mice.