demethylation in a sentence
Examples
- Loxapine may be metabolized by " N "-demethylation to amoxapine, a tetracyclic antidepressant.
- Oxymorphone is also a minor metabolite of oxycodone, which is formed by CYP2D6-mediated O-demethylation.
- O-demethylation of DXM to DXO contributes to at least 80 % of the DXO formed during DXM metabolism.
- Additional demethylation reactions occur in tumor cells, releasing formaldehyde in situ before the drug is excreted in the urine.
- Nicodicodeine is metabolised in the liver by demethylation to produce 6-nicotinoyldihydromorphine, and subsequently further metabolised to dihydromorphine.
- Tetrahydrofolate here serves as a 1-carbon acceptor during the demethylation process ( See figure 3 for mechanism ).
- It has also been suggested that members of the DNA damage repair GADD45 family may contribute to this demethylation process.
- Under anaerobic condition and without tetrahydrofolate, however, a free formaldehyde is formed after the N-demethylation of sarcosine.
- This demethylation process is the first step in the highly sought-after demethylation pathway of DMSP degradation in marine bacteria.
- This demethylation process is the first step in the highly sought-after demethylation pathway of DMSP degradation in marine bacteria.