Abstract
Metabolic interaction between naloxone and morphine has been studied in vitro in human liver microsomes. Morphine and naloxone are metabolized by an UDP-glucuronyl transferase to their 3-glucuronides. There is a very good correlation between the rates of formation of morphine-3-glucuronide and of naloxone-3-glucuronide. Naloxone seems to have a 10-fold higher affinity for the enzyme binding site than does morphine. Morphine and naloxone show bisubstrate kinetic patterns which appear very similar.
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