Nicotine and Related Alkaloids: Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion

ISBN-13: 9780412557408 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 299 str.

J. W. Gorrod; J. Wahren; J. W. Gorrod

Opis

This book serves as a reference volume for anyone interested in nicotine and tobacco. An international team of authors contribute to this comprehensive review of current knowledge on the pharmacokinetics and metabolism of nicotine. A broad range of material on the action and uptake of nicotine and the consequences of exposure to it has been drawn together for the first time in this volume.

Spis treści

Plant metabolism. Mammalian metabolism: overview. Nicotine to cotinine. Nicotine to cotinine: enzyme induction. N-oxidation, N-methylation and conjugation reactions. Nicotine metabolism: beyond cotinine. Extrahepatic nicotine metabolism. Minor tobacco alkaloids. Pharmacokinetics of nicotine and metabolites in animals. Pharmacokinetics of nicotine and metabolites in humans. Factors influencing individual variation in nicotine pharmacokinetics. Analysis of nicotine. Chromatographic analysis of nicotine and metabolites. Nicotine and metabolites: pharmacokinetics models. New methods for probing the in vivo disposition of nicotine in humans. Aspects of metabolism of S- nicotine.