Abstract
Glucuronidation is known to be a major metabolic pathway for labetalol. As the drug contains a phenolic and an alcoholic hydroxy group, in principle two regio isomeric glucuronides can be formed. By incubating the substrate labetalol with bovine liver microsomes, in the presence of the co-substrate UDP-glucuronic acid, both hydroxy positions were glucuronidated. The different glucuronides were isolated from the incubation mixture using Bond-Elut extraction cartridges and separated by means of high performance liquid chromatography. The formation of glucuronides was confirmed by performing reference incubations using radiolabeled UDP-glucuronic acid. Structure elucidation of the various glucuronides was done by nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry.
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Glucuronidation of labetalol at the two hydroxy positions by bovine liver microsomes. Isolation, purification, and structure elucidation of the glucuronides of labetalol.
