title: The disposition of a histidine decarboxylase inhibitor (S)-alpha-fluoromethylhistidine in rats.
abstract: An amino acid analyser method using ninhydrin was developed for (S)-alpha-fluoromethylhistidine (FMH) with a minimum quantitation limit of 0.2 microgram mL-1. The assay was used to study the kinetics of FMH in rat. After bolus intravenous administration of FMH hydrochloride hemihydrate (50 mg kg-1), plasma concentration decreased biexponentially with half-lives of 4.4 and 32.7 min. The distribution volumes of the central and peripheral compartments were 127.4 and 166.3 mL kg-1, respectively. The tissue concentration of FMH was highest in the kidney and also decreased biphasically. The FMH concentrations in other tissues were lower, but their tissue/plasma ratios of FMH increased continuously after FMH injection, indicating that FMH partitioned into these tissues and was lost from them very slowly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics I, Tohoku College of Pharmacy, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niwa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maeyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006640:Histidine Decarboxylase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D008762:Methylhistidines / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D008762:Methylhistidines; C028309:alpha-fluoromethylhistidine; D006640:Histidine Decarboxylase