Levomethadone
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| Systematic (IUPAC) name | |
| (6R)-6-(dimethylamino)-4,4-diphenyl-3-heptanone | |
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| AHFS/Drugs.com | International Drug Names |
| Pregnancy cat. | ? |
| Legal status | Schedule II (US) Class A (UK) Schedule I (UN) |
| Routes | Oral, IV, IM, SC, IT[1] |
| Pharmacokinetic data | |
| Bioavailability | High[1] |
| Protein binding | 60-90%[1] |
| Half-life | ~18 hours[1] |
| Identifiers | |
| CAS number | 125-58-6 5967-73-7 (HCl) |
| ATC code | N07BC05 |
| PubChem | CID 22267 |
| ChemSpider | 20904 |
| Chemical data | |
| Formula | C21H27NO |
| Mol. mass | 309.445 g/mol |
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Levomethadone (INN; L-Polamidon, L-Polamivet, Levadone, Levothyl), or levamethadone, is a synthetic opioid analgesic and antitussive which is marketed in Europe and is used for pain management and in opioid maintenance therapy.[1][2][3] In addition to being used as a pharmaceutical drug itself, levomethadone, or R-(-)-methadone, is the active enantiomer of methadone,[2] having approximately 50x the potency of the S-(+)-enantiomer as well as greater μ-opioid receptor selectivity.[1][4] Accordingly, it is about twice as potent as methadone by weight and its effects are virtually identical in comparison.[5][6] In addition to its activity at the opioid receptors, levomethadone has been found to act as a weak competitive antagonist of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor complex[7] and as a potent noncompetitive antagonist of the α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine (nACh) receptor.[8]
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- ^ Verthein U, Ullmann R, Lachmann A, et al. (November 2005). "The effects of racemic D,L-methadone and L-methadone in substituted patients--a randomized controlled study". Drug and Alcohol Dependence 80 (2): 267–71. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.04.007. PMID 15916866.
- ^ Eric C. Strain; Maxine L. Stitzer (4 November 2005). The Treatment of Opioid Dependence. JHU Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8018-8303-3. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ Xiao Y, Smith RD, Caruso FS, Kellar KJ (October 2001). "Blockade of rat alpha3beta4 nicotinic receptor function by methadone, its metabolites, and structural analogs". The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 299 (1): 366–71. PMID 11561100.
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