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A novel metabolite, an oxepin formed from cannabidiol with guinea-pig hepatic microsomes
Yamamoto,Nagai,Watanabe,Matsunaga,Yoshimura
, p. 683 - 686 (2007/10/02)
The metabolic formation of an oxepin derivative, 3-pentyl-6, 7, 7a, 8, 9, 11a-hexahydro-1, 7-dihydroxy-7, 10-dimethyldibenzo-[b,d]-oxepin, from cannabidiol was studied in-vitro using guinea-pig hepatic microsomes. The hepatic microsomes catalysed the formation of the metabolite from cannabidiol and 8S, 9-epoxycannabidiol in the presence of an NADPH-generating system and 3, 3, 3-trichloropropene-1, 2-oxide. 8S, 9-Epoxycannabidiol was thought to be an intermediate in the formation of the metabolite, which was identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The metabolite synthesized from 8S, 9-epoxycannabidiol diacetate exhibited catalepsy, hypothermia and pentobarbitone-induced sleep prolongation in mice, although the pharmacological effect was less potent than that of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol.