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Lim HK, Zeng S, Foltz RL. 
“Comparative investigation of disposition of 3,4-(methylenedioxy)methamphetamine (MDMA) in the rat and the mouse by a capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry assay based on perfluorotributylamine-enhanced ammonia positive ion chemical ionization”. 
J Pharm Biomed Anal. 1992;10(9):657-65.
Abstract
A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry assay based on perfluorotributylamine-enhanced ammonia positive ion chemical ionization has been developed for MDMA and three of its primary metabolites in biological specimens; the assay is linear from 2 to 1000 ng ml-1. Quantitatively, more of an administered dose of 10 mg kg-1 MDMA was excreted by the mouse (72%) than by the rat (35%); most in both species was excreted in urine and within 24 h. The difference in per cent excretion is entirely due to proportionally greater excretion of the parent drug by the mouse. 4-Hydroxy-3-methoxymethamphetamine (HMM) is the major urinary metabolite in both species. HMM and another primary metabolite, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyamphetamine (HMA), were excreted mainly as glucuronide and sulphate conjugates (> 85%).
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