Published in Hospital Business Week, November 16th, 2008
"MDMA is also a mechanism-based inhibitor of CYP2D6. A controlled clinical trial was conducted in 15 healthy male subjects whereby a probe drug, dextromethorphan (DEX), was administered after an oral dose of 1.5 mg/kg MDMA. The pharmacokinetics of DEX and its metabolites were used to evaluate changes in CYP2D6 activity. The urinary metabolic ratio of DEX and dextrorphan was used to calculate a recovery half-life...
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