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The first claimed detection of mammalian endogenous DMT is published in June 1965: German researchers F. Franzen and H. Gross report to have evidenced and quantified DMT, along with its [[structural analog]] bufotenin (5-OH-DMT), in human blood and urine.<ref name="pmid5839067">{{cite journal |author=Franzen F., Gross H. |title=Tryptamine, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, N,N-dimethyl-5-hydroxytryptamine and 5-methoxytryptamine in human blood and urine |journal=Nature |volume=206 |issue=988 |pages=1052 |year=1965 |month=June |pmid=5839067 |doi=10.1038/2061052a0 |url=}}</ref> In an article published four months later, the method used in their study is strongly criticized, and credibility of their results challenged.<ref name="pmid5860629">{{cite journal |author=Siegel M. |title=A sensitive method for the detection of N,N-dimethylserotonin (bufotenin) in urine; failure to demonstrate its presence in the urine of schizophrenic and normal subjects |journal=Journal of Psychiatric Research |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=205–11 |year=1965 |month=October |pmid=5860629 |doi=10.1016/0022-3956(65)90030-0 |url=}}</ref> In 2001, surveys, made in research articles, point that few of the analytical methods previously used to measure levels of endogenously formed DMT had enough sensitivity and selectivity to produce reliable results.<ref name="pmid11232854">{{cite journal |author=Barker S.A., Littlefield-Chabaud M.A., David C. |title=Distribution of the hallucinogens ''N'',''N''-dimethyltryptamine and 5-methoxy-''N'',''N''-dimethyltryptamine in rat brain following intraperitoneal injection: application of a new solid-phase extraction LC-APcI-MS-MS-isotope dilution method |journal=Journal of Chromatography. B, Biomedical Sciences and Applications |volume=751 |issue=1 |pages=37–47 |year=2001 |month=February |pmid=11232854 |doi=10.1016/S0378-4347(00)00442-4 |url=}}</ref><ref name="pmid11763413">{{cite journal |author=Forsström T., Tuominen J., Karkkäinen J. |title=Determination of potentially hallucinogenic N-dimethylated indoleamines in human urine by HPLC/ESI-MS-MS |journal=Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation |volume=61 |issue=7 |pages=547–56 |year=2001 |pmid=11763413 |doi=10.1080/003655101753218319 |url=}}</ref> [[Gas chromatography]], preferably coupled to [[mass spectrometry]] ([[GC-MS]]), is considered a minimum requirement.<ref name="pmid11763413"/> A study published in 2005<ref name="pmid16095048"/> implements the most sensitive and selective method ever used to measure endogenous DMT<ref name="pmid20523750">{{cite journal |author=Shen H.W., Jiang X.L., Yu A.M. |title=Development of a LC-MS/MS method to analyze 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine and bufotenine, and application to pharmacokinetic study |journal=Bioanalysis |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=87–95 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=20523750 |pmc=2879651 |doi=10.4155/bio.09.7 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879651/}}</ref>: [[High-performance liquid chromatography|liquid chromatography]]-[[tandem mass spectrometry]] with [[electrospray ionization]] (LC-ESI-MS/MS) allows to reach limits of detection (LODs) 12 to 200 fold lower (i.e. better) than those attained by the best methods employed in the 1970s (citations in table below). The data summarized in the table below are from studies conforming to the abovementioned requirements (abbreviations used: CSF = [[cerebrospinal fluid]]; LOD = [[limit of detection]]; n = number of samples; ng/L and ng/kg = nanograms (10<sup>−9</sup> g) per litre, and nanograms per kilogram, respectively):
The first claimed detection of mammalian endogenous DMT was published in June 1965: German researchers F. Franzen and H. Gross report to have evidenced and quantified DMT's [[structural analog]] [[bufotenin]] (5-OH-DMT) and [[5-Methoxytryptamine]] in human blood and urine. However, this report is often inaccurately interpreted as being evidence of N,N-DMT in the human body, for whatever reason, even though the report clearly states in the [[abstract (summary)|abstract]], "There is no information about an occurrence of N,N-dimethyltryptamine in human beings."<ref name="pmid5839067">{{cite journal |author=Franzen F., Gross H. |title=Tryptamine, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, N,N-dimethyl-5-hydroxytryptamine and 5-methoxytryptamine in human blood and urine |journal=Nature |volume=206 |issue=988 |pages=1052 |year=1965 |month=June |pmid=5839067 |doi=10.1038/2061052a0 |url= |quote=There is no information about an occurrence of N,N-dimethyltryptamine in human beings.}}</ref> In an article published four months later, the method used in Franzen and Gross' study is strongly criticized, and credibility of their results challenged.<ref name="pmid5860629">{{cite journal |author=Siegel M. |title=A sensitive method for the detection of N,N-dimethylserotonin (bufotenin) in urine; failure to demonstrate its presence in the urine of schizophrenic and normal subjects |journal=Journal of Psychiatric Research |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=205–11 |year=1965 |month=October |pmid=5860629 |doi=10.1016/0022-3956(65)90030-0 |url=}}</ref> Some other published research includes this misinterpretation of Franzen and Gross' report. For example, Jacob and Presti's 2004 article titled, "Endogenous psychoactive tryptamines reconsidered: an anxiolytic role for dimethyltryptamine," inaccurately states, "Then, in 1965, DMT, tryptamine and 5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (bufotenine) were reported as normal constituents of human urine and blood [8]."<ref name="pmid15780487" />
In 2001, surveys, made in research articles, point out that few of the analytical methods previously used to measure levels of endogenously formed DMT had enough sensitivity and selectivity to produce reliable results.<ref name="pmid11232854">{{cite journal |author=Barker S.A., Littlefield-Chabaud M.A., David C. |title=Distribution of the hallucinogens ''N'',''N''-dimethyltryptamine and 5-methoxy-''N'',''N''-dimethyltryptamine in rat brain following intraperitoneal injection: application of a new solid-phase extraction LC-APcI-MS-MS-isotope dilution method |journal=Journal of Chromatography. B, Biomedical Sciences and Applications |volume=751 |issue=1 |pages=37–47 |year=2001 |month=February |pmid=11232854 |doi=10.1016/S0378-4347(00)00442-4 |url=}}</ref><ref name="pmid11763413">{{cite journal |author=Forsström T., Tuominen J., Karkkäinen J. |title=Determination of potentially hallucinogenic N-dimethylated indoleamines in human urine by HPLC/ESI-MS-MS |journal=Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation |volume=61 |issue=7 |pages=547–56 |year=2001 |pmid=11763413 |doi=10.1080/003655101753218319 |url=}}</ref> [[Gas chromatography]], preferably coupled to [[mass spectrometry]] ([[GC-MS]]), is considered a minimum requirement.<ref name="pmid11763413"/> A study published in 2005<ref name="pmid16095048"/> implements the most sensitive and selective method ever used to measure endogenous DMT<ref name="pmid20523750">{{cite journal |author=Shen H.W., Jiang X.L., Yu A.M. |title=Development of a LC-MS/MS method to analyze 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine and bufotenine, and application to pharmacokinetic study |journal=Bioanalysis |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=87–95 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=20523750 |pmc=2879651 |doi=10.4155/bio.09.7 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879651/}}</ref>: [[High-performance liquid chromatography|liquid chromatography]]-[[tandem mass spectrometry]] with [[electrospray ionization]] (LC-ESI-MS/MS) allows to reach limits of detection (LODs) 12 to 200 fold lower (i.e. better) than those attained by the best methods employed in the 1970s (citations in table below). The data summarized in the table below are from studies conforming to the abovementioned requirements (abbreviations used: CSF = [[cerebrospinal fluid]]; LOD = [[limit of detection]]; n = number of samples; ng/L and ng/kg = nanograms (10<sup>−9</sup> g) per litre, and nanograms per kilogram, respectively):


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N,N-Dimethyltryptamine
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  • 2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-N,N-dimethylethanamine
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FormulaC12H16N2
Molar mass188.269 g/mol g·mol−1
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Density1.099g/ml g/cm3
Melting point40 to 59 °C (104 to 138 °F)
Boiling point160 °C (320 °F) @ 0.6 Torr[1] also reported as 80 - 135 °C @ 0.03 Torr[2]
  • CN(C)CCc1c[nH]c2ccccc12
  • InChI=1S/C12H16N2/c1-14(2)8-7-10-9-13-12-6-4-3-5-11(10)12/h3-6,9,13H,7-8H2,1-2H3 checkY
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N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a naturally occurring hallucinogenic compound of the tryptamine family. DMT is found not only in several plants,[3] but also in trace amounts in humans and other mammals, where it is originally derived from the essential amino acid tryptophan, and ultimately produced by the enzyme INMT during normal metabolism.[4] The natural function of its widespread presence remains undetermined. Structurally, DMT is analogous to the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT), the hormone melatonin, and other psychedelic tryptamines, such as 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenin, and psilocin.

Many cultures, indigenous and modern, ingest DMT as a psychedelic drug, in either extracted or synthesized forms.[5] When DMT is inhaled, depending on the dose, its subjective effects can range from short-lived milder psychedelic states to powerful immersive experiences, which include a total loss of connection to conventional reality, which may be so extreme that it becomes ineffable.[6] DMT is also the primary psychoactive in ayahuasca, an Amazonian Amerindian brew employed for divinatory and healing purposes. Pharmacologically, ayahuasca combines DMT with an MAOI, an enzyme inhibitor that allows DMT to be orally active.[7]

History

Naturally-occurring DMT has been known to humans for millennia.[citation needed] DMT was first synthesized in 1931 by Canadian chemist Richard Manske (1901–1977).[8][9] Its discovery as a natural product is generally credited to Brazilian chemist and microbiologist Oswaldo Gonçalves de Lima (1908–1989) who, in 1946, isolated an alkaloid he named nigerina (nigerine) from the root bark of jurema preta, i.e. Mimosa tenuiflora.[9][10][11] However, in a careful review of the case Jonathan Ott shows that the empirical formula for nigerine determined by Gonçalves de Lima, which notably contains an atom of oxygen, can only match a partial, "impure" or "contaminated" form of DMT.[12] It was only in 1959, when Gonçalves de Lima provided American chemists a sample of Mimosa tenuiflora roots, that DMT was unequivocally identified in this plant material.[12][13] Less ambiguous is the case of isolation and formal identification of DMT in 1955 in seeds and pods of Anadenanthera peregrina by a team of American chemists led by Evan Horning (1916–1993).[12][14] Since 1955 DMT has been found in a host of organisms: in at least 50 plant species belonging to 10 families,[3] and in at least 4 animal species, including one gorgonian[15] and 3 mammalian species (see Endogenous DMT).

Another historical milestone is the discovery of DMT in plants frequently used by Amazonian natives as additive to the vine Banisteriopsis caapi to make ayahuasca decoctions. In 1957, American chemists Francis Hochstein and Anita Paradies identify DMT in an "aqueous extract" of leaves of a plant they name Prestonia amazonicum (sic) and describe as "commonly mixed" with B. caapi.[16] The lack of a proper botanical identification of Prestonia amazonica in this study led American ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes (1915–2001) and other scientists to raise serious doubts about the claimed plant identity.[17][18] A better evidence is produced in 1965 by French pharmacologist Jacques Poisson who isolates DMT as sole alkaloid from leaves, provided and used by Aguaruna Indians, identified as pertaining to the vine Diplopterys cabrerana (then known as Banisteriopsis rusbyana).[18] Published in 1970, the first identification of DMT in the other commonly used additive plant Psychotria viridis[10] is made by a team of American researchers led by pharmacologist Ara der Marderosian.[19] Not only did they detect DMT in leaves of P. viridis obtained from Cashinahua Indians, but they also were the first to identify it in a sample of an ayahuasca decoction, prepared by the same Indians.[10]

Biosynthesis

Biosynthetic pathway for N,N-dimethyltryptamine

Dimethyltryptamine is an indole-alkaloid derived from the shikimate pathway. Its biosynthesis is relatively simple and summarized in the picture to the left. In plants, the parent amino acid L-tryptophan is produced endogenously where in animals L-tryptophan is an essential amino acid coming from diet. No matter the source of L-tryptophan, the biosynthesis begins with its decarboxylation by an aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) enzyme (step 1). The resulting decarboxylated tryptophan analog is tryptamine. Tryptamine then undergoes a transmethylation (step 2): the enzyme indolethylamine-N-methyltransferase (INMT) catalyses the transfer of a methyl group from cofactor S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM), via nucleophilic attack, to tryptamine. This reaction transforms SAM into S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH), and gives the intermediate product N-methyltryptamine (NMT).[20][21] NMT is in turn transmethylated by the same process (step 3) to form the end product N,N-dimethyltryptamine. Tryptamine transmethylation is regulated by two products of the reaction: SAH,[4][22][23] and DMT[4][23] were shown ex vivo to be among the most potent inhibitors of rabbit INMT activity.

This transmethylation mechanism has been repeatedly and consistently proven by radiolabeling of SAM methyl group with carbon-14 (14C-CH3)SAM).[4][20][23][24][25]

Evidence in mammals

Published in the prestigious journal Science in 1961, Julius Axelrod's finding in rabbit lung of an N-methyltransferase enzyme capable to mediate biotransformation of tryptamine into DMT[20] initiated a still ongoing scientific interest in endogenous production of DMT in humans and other mammals.[21][26] From then on, two major complementary lines of evidence are investigated: localization and further characterization of the N-methyltransferase enzyme, and analytical studies looking for endogenously produced DMT in body fluids and tissues.[21]

INMT

Before techniques of molecular biology were used to localize indolethylamine N-methyltransferase (INMT),[23][25] characterization and localization went on a par: samples of the biological material where INMT is hypothesized to be active are subject to enzyme assay. Those enzyme assays are performed either with a radiolabeled methyl donor like (14C-CH3)SAM to which known amounts of unlabeled substrates like tryptamine are added,[21] or with addition of a radiolabeled substrate like (14C)NMT to demonstrate in vivo formation.[4][24] As qualitative determination of the radioactively tagged product of the enzymatic reaction is sufficient to characterize INMT existence and activity (or lack of), analytical methods used in INMT assays don't require to be as sensitive as those needed to directly detect and quantify the minute amounts of endogenously formed DMT (see DMT subsection below). The essentially qualitative method thin layer chromatography (TLC) was thus used in a vast majority of studies.[21] Also, robust evidence that INMT can catalyze transmethylation of tryptamine into NMT and DMT could be provided with reverse isotope dilution analysis coupled to mass spectrometry for rabbit[27][28] and human[29] lung during the early 1970s.

Selectivity rather than sensitivity proved to be an Achilles’ heel for some TLC methods with the discovery in 1974-1975 that incubating rat blood cells or brain tissue with (14C-CH3)SAM and NMT as substrate mostly yields tetrahydro-β-carboline derivatives,[4][21][30] and negligible amounts of DMT in brain tissue.[21] It is indeed simultaneously realized that the TLC methods used thus far in almost all published studies on INMT and DMT biosynthesis are incapable to resolve DMT from those tetrahydro-β-carbolines.[21] These findings are a blow for all previous claims of evidence of INMT activity and DMT biosynthesis in avian[31] and mammalian brain,[32][33] including in vivo,[34][35] as they all relied upon use of the problematic TLC methods[21]: their validity is doubted in replication studies that make use of improved TLC methods, and fail to evidence DMT-producing INMT activity in rat and human brain tissues.[36][37] Published in 1978, the last study attempting to evidence in vivo INMT activity and DMT production in brain (rat) with TLC methods finds biotransformation of radiolabeled tryptamine into DMT to be real but "insignificant".[38] Capability of the method used in this latter study to resolve DMT from tetrahydro-β-carbolines is questioned later.[4]
To localize INMT, a qualitative leap is accomplished with use of modern techniques of molecular biology, and of immunohistochemistry. In humans, a gene encoding INMT is determined to be located on chromosome 7.[25] Northern blot analyses reveal INMT messenger RNA (mRNA) to be highly expressed in rabbit lung,[23] and in human thyroid, adrenal gland, and lung.[25][39] Intermediate levels of expression are found in human heart, skeletal muscle, trachea, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, testis, prostate, placenta, lymph node, and spinal cord.[25][39] Low to very low levels of expression are noted in rabbit brain,[25] and human thymus, liver, spleen, kidney, colon, ovary, and bone marrow.[25][39] INMT mRNA expression is absent in human peripheral blood leukocytes, whole brain, and in tissue from 7 specific brain regions (thalamus, subthalamic nucleus, caudate nucleus, hippocampus, amygdala, substantia nigra, and corpus callosum).[25][39] Immunohistochemistry showed INMT to be present in large amounts in glandular epithelial cells of small and large intestines, and to be absent in neurons.[26]

Endogenous DMT

The first claimed detection of mammalian endogenous DMT was published in June 1965: German researchers F. Franzen and H. Gross report to have evidenced and quantified DMT's structural analog bufotenin (5-OH-DMT) and 5-Methoxytryptamine in human blood and urine. However, this report is often inaccurately interpreted as being evidence of N,N-DMT in the human body, for whatever reason, even though the report clearly states in the abstract, "There is no information about an occurrence of N,N-dimethyltryptamine in human beings."[40] In an article published four months later, the method used in Franzen and Gross' study is strongly criticized, and credibility of their results challenged.[41] Some other published research includes this misinterpretation of Franzen and Gross' report. For example, Jacob and Presti's 2004 article titled, "Endogenous psychoactive tryptamines reconsidered: an anxiolytic role for dimethyltryptamine," inaccurately states, "Then, in 1965, DMT, tryptamine and 5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (bufotenine) were reported as normal constituents of human urine and blood [8]."[42]

In 2001, surveys, made in research articles, point out that few of the analytical methods previously used to measure levels of endogenously formed DMT had enough sensitivity and selectivity to produce reliable results.[43][44] Gas chromatography, preferably coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS), is considered a minimum requirement.[44] A study published in 2005[26] implements the most sensitive and selective method ever used to measure endogenous DMT[45]: liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization (LC-ESI-MS/MS) allows to reach limits of detection (LODs) 12 to 200 fold lower (i.e. better) than those attained by the best methods employed in the 1970s (citations in table below). The data summarized in the table below are from studies conforming to the abovementioned requirements (abbreviations used: CSF = cerebrospinal fluid; LOD = limit of detection; n = number of samples; ng/L and ng/kg = nanograms (10−9 g) per litre, and nanograms per kilogram, respectively):

DMT in body fluids and tissues (NB: units have been harmonized)
Species Sample Results
Human Blood serum < LOD (n = 66)[26]
Blood plasma < LOD (n = 71)[26]  ♦  < LOD (n = 38); 1,000 & 10,600 ng/L (n = 2)[46]
Whole blood < LOD (n = 20); 50-790 ng/L (n = 20)[47]
Urine < 100 ng/L (n = 9)[26]  ♦  < LOD (n = 60); 160-540 ng/L (n = 5)[44]  ♦  Detected in n = 10 by GC-MS[48]
Feces < 50 ng/kg (n = 12); 130 ng/kg (n = 1)[26]
Kidney 15 ng/kg (n = 1)[26]
Lung 14 ng/kg (n = 1)[26]
Lumbar CSF 100,370 ng/L (n = 1); 2,330-7,210 ng/L (n = 3); 350 & 850 ng/L (n = 2)[49]
Rat Kidney 12 &16 ng/kg (n = 2)[26]
Lung 22 & 12 ng/kg (n = 2)[26]
Liver 6 & 10 ng/kg (n = 2)[26]
Brain 10 &15 ng/kg (n = 2)[26]  ♦  Measured in synaptic vesicular fraction[50]
Rabbit Liver < 10 ng/kg (n = 1)[26]

Physical and chemical properties

DMT Crystals

DMT is commonly handled and stored as a fumarate as other DMT acid salts are generally very hygroscopic and will not readily crystallize. Its freebase form, although less stable than DMT fumarate, is favored by recreational users choosing to vaporize (smoke) the chemical because it has a lower boiling point. In contrast to DMT's base, its salts are water-soluble. DMT in solution degrades relatively quickly and should be stored protected from air, light, and heat in a freezer.

Pharmacology

Pharmacokinetics

DMT peak levels concentrations (Cmax) measured in whole blood after intramuscular (IM) injection (0.7 mg/kg, n = 11)[51] and in plasma following intravenous (IV) administration (0.4 mg/kg, n = 10)[52] of fully psychedelic doses are in the range of ≈14 to 154 μg/L and 32 to 204 μg/L, respectively. The corresponding molar concentrations of DMT are therefore in the range of 0.074–0.818 µM in whole blood and 0.170–1.08 µM in plasma. However, several studies have described active transport and accumulation of DMT into rat and dog brain following peripheral administration.[53][54][55][56][57] Similar active transport, and accumulation processes likely occur in human brain and may concentrate DMT in brain by several-fold or more (relatively to blood), resulting in local concentrations in the micromolar or higher range. Such concentrations would be commensurate with serotonin brain tissue concentrations which have been consistently determined to be in the 1.5-4 μM range.[58][59]
Closely coextending with peak psychedelic effects, mean time to reach peak concentrations (Tmax) was determined to be 10-15 minutes in whole blood after IM injection,[51] and 2 minutes in plasma after IV administration.[52] When taken orally mixed in an ayahuasca decoction, and in freeze-dried ayahuasca gel caps, DMT Tmax is considerably delayed: 107.59 ± 32.5 minutes,[60] and 90–120 minutes,[61] respectively.

Pharmacodynamics

DMT binds non-selectively with affinities < 0.6 μM to the following serotonin receptors: 5-HT1A,[62][63][64] 5-HT1B,[62][65] 5-HT1D,[62][64][65] 5-HT2A,[62][64][65][66] 5-HT2B,[62][65] 5-HT2C,[62][65][66] 5-HT6,[62][65] and 5-HT7.[62][65] An agonist action has been determined at 5-HT1A,[63] 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C.[62][65][66] Its efficacies at other serotonin receptors remain to be determined. Of special interest will be the determination of its efficacy at human 5-HT2B receptor as two in vitro assays evidenced DMT high affinity for this receptor: 0.108 μM[65] and 0.184 μM.[62] This may be of importance because chronic or frequent uses of serotonergic drugs showing preferential high affinity and clear agonism at 5-HT2B receptor have been causally linked to valvular heart disease.[67][68]

It has also been shown to possess affinity for the dopamine D1, α1-adrenergic, α2-adrenergic, imidazoline-1, sigma-1 (σ1), and trace amine-associated receptors.[64][65][69] Agonism was demonstrated at 1 μM at the rat trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1)[70] and converging lines of evidence established activation of the σ1 receptor at concentrations of 50-100 μM.[71] Its efficacies at the other receptor binding sites are unclear. It has also been shown in vitro to be a substrate for the cell-surface serotonin transporter (SERT) and the intracellular vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2), inhibiting SERT-mediated serotonin uptake in human platelets at an average concentration of 4.00 ± 0.70 μM and VMAT2-mediated serotonin uptake in vesicles (of army worm Sf9 cells) expressing rat VMAT-2 at an average concentration of 93 ± 6.8 μM.[72]

Like with other so-called "classical hallucinogens",[73] a large part of DMT psychedelic effects can be attributed to a specific activation of the 5-HT2A receptor.[52][62][74][75][76][77][78] DMT concentrations eliciting 50% of its maximal effect (half maximal effective concentration = EC50 or Kact) at the human 5-HT2A receptor in vitro are in the 0.118-0.983 μM range.[62][65][66][79] This range of values coincides well with the range of concentrations measured in blood and plasma after administration of a fully psychedelic dose (see Pharmacokinetics).

As DMT has been shown to have slightly better efficacy (EC50) at human serotonin 2C receptor than at 2A receptor,[65][66] 5-HT2C highly likely also is implicated in DMT overall effects.[75][80] Other receptors, such as 5-HT1A[64][75][77] σ1,[71][81] and TAAR1[70][82][42] may also play a role.

In 2009 it is hypothesized that DMT may be an endogenous ligand for the σ1 receptor.[71][81] However, the concentration of DMT needed for σ1 activation (50-100 μM) is minimally 4 orders of magnitude (104) higher than average endogenous concentrations measured in rat brain tissue or human plasma (see Endogenous DMT), and is also two orders of magnitude (102) higher than the average concentration needed to activate the human 5-HT2A receptor in vitro (0.118-0.983 μM).

Psychedelic properties

DMT occurs naturally in many species of plants often in conjunction with its close chemical relatives 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin (5-OH-DMT).[83] DMT-containing plants are commonly used in South American Shamanic practices. It is usually one of the main active constituents of the drink ayahuasca,[5] however ayahuasca is sometimes brewed without plants that produce DMT. It occurs as the primary psychoactive alkaloid in several plants including Mimosa tenuiflora, Diplopterys cabrerana, and Psychotria viridis. DMT is found as a minor alkaloid in snuff made from Virola bark resin in which 5-MeO-DMT is the main active alkaloid.[83] DMT is also found as a minor alkaloid in bark, pods, and beans of Anadenanthera peregrina and Anadenanthera colubrina used to make Yopo and Vilca snuff in which bufotenin is the main active alkaloid.[83][84] Psilocin, an active chemical in many psychedelic mushrooms, is structurally similar to DMT.

The psychotropic effects of DMT were first studied scientifically by the Hungarian chemist and psychologist Dr. Stephen Szára who performed research with volunteers in the mid-1950s. Szára, who later worked for the US National Institutes of Health, had turned his attention to DMT after his order for LSD from the Swiss company Sandoz Laboratories was rejected on the grounds that the powerful psychotropic could be dangerous in the hands of a communist country.[11]

File:Dmtlab.jpg
DMT during various stages of purification in an illegal drug laboratory in Los Angeles

DMT can produce powerful entheogenic experiences including intense visuals, euphoria, even true hallucinations (perceived extensions of reality). DMT is generally not active orally unless it is combined with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) such as a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A (RIMA), e.g., harmaline. Without an MAOI, the body quickly metabolizes orally administered DMT, and it therefore has no hallucinogenic effect unless the dose exceeds monoamine oxidase's metabolic capacity. Other means of ingestion such as smoking or injecting the drug can produce powerful hallucinations and entheogenic activity for a short time (usually less than half an hour), as the DMT reaches the brain before it can be metabolized by the body's natural monoamine oxidase. Taking a MAOI prior to smoking or injecting DMT prolongs and potentiates the effects.[6]

Inhalation

A standard dose for smoked DMT is between 15–60 mg. This is generally smoked in a few successive breaths. The effects last for a short period of time, usually 5 to 15 minutes, dependent on the dose. The onset after inhalation is very fast (less than 45 seconds) and peak effects are reached within a minute. In the 1960s, some reportedly referred to DMT as "the businessman's trip"[85] because of the relatively short duration of vaporized, insufflated, or injected DMT. DMT is commonly vaporized in glass pipes such as those used with crack cocaine and methamphetamine. Improvised smoking devices can be constructed from light bulbs. The vapor is sometimes described as harsh, and some users even compare its flavor to that of burning plastic. Some users elect to combine it with cannabis, parsley, mullein, mint, or other plants in an attempt to improve flavor and reduce harshness. Combining DMT with plant matter or depositing it upon a substrate of ash also facilitates use of an ordinary pipe, a bong, or a vaporizer.

Insufflation

Insufflating DMT (commonly as a freebase or fumarate) requires a higher dose than does inhalation. The duration is markedly increased, and some users report diminished euphoria but an intensified otherworldly experience [citation needed].

Injection

Injected DMT produces an experience that is similar to inhalation in duration, intensity, and characteristics.

In a study conducted from 1990 through 1995, University of New Mexico psychiatrist Rick Strassman found that some volunteers injected with high doses of DMT had experiences with a perceived alien entity. Usually, the reported entities were experienced as the inhabitants of a perceived independent reality the subjects reported visiting while under the influence of DMT.[11] In a September, 2009, interview with Examiner.com, Strassman described the effects on participants in the study: "Subjectively, the most interesting results were that high doses of DMT seemed to allow the consciousness of our volunteers to enter into non-corporeal, free-standing, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who oftentimes were expecting the volunteers, and with whom the volunteers interacted. While “typical” near-death and mystical states occurred, they were relatively rare."

Oral ingestion

DMT is broken down by the digestive enzyme monoamine oxidase and is practically inactive if taken orally, unless combined with an MAOI. The traditional South American ayahuasca, or yage, is a tea mixture containing DMT and a MAOI.[5] There are a variety of recipes to this brew, but most commonly it is simply the leaves of Psychotria viridis (the source of DMT) and the vine Banisteriopsis caapi (the source of MAOI). Other DMT containing plants, including Diplopterys cabrerana, are sometimes used in ayahuasca in different areas of South America. Two common sources in the western US are Reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) and Harding grass (Phalaris aquatica). These invasive grasses contain low levels of DMT and other alkaloids. In addition, Jurema (Mimosa tenuiflora) shows evidence of DMT content: the pink layer in the bark of this vine contains a high concentration of N,N-DMT.

Taken orally with an appropriate MAOI, DMT produces a long lasting (over 3 hour), slow, deep metaphysical experience similar to that of psilocybin mushrooms, but more intense.[5] MAOIs should be used with extreme caution as they can have lethal complications with some prescription drugs such as SSRI antidepressants, some over-the-counter drugs,[86] and many common foods.[87]

Induced DMT experiences can include profound time-dilation, visual and auditory illusions, and other experiences that, by most firsthand accounts, defy verbal or visual description. Some users report intense erotic imagery and sensations and utilize the drug in a ritual sexual context.[5][88][89]

Distinguish from 5-MeO-DMT

5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic drug structurally similar to N,N-DMT, is sometimes referred to as DMT through ignorance or by abbreviation. As a white, crystalline solid, it is also similar in appearance to DMT. However, it is considerably more potent (5-MeO-DMT typical smoked dose: 5–20 mg), and care should be taken to clearly differentiate between the two drugs to avoid accidental overdose.[90]

Side effects

Similar to other psychedelic drugs, there are relatively few physical side effects associated with DMT acute exposure. When inhaled, its vapor has been described as "very harsh".[91] According to a "Dose-response study of N,N-dimethyltryptamine in humans" by Rick Strassman, "Dimethyltryptamine dose slightly elevated blood pressure, heart rate, pupil diameter, and rectal temperature, in addition to elevating blood concentrations of beta-endorphin, corticotropin, cortisol, and prolactin. Growth hormone blood levels rose equally in response to all doses of DMT, and melatonin levels were unaffected."[52]

Psychologically, the DMT experience can be overly-intense, potentially causing overwhelming fear and difficulty integrating experiences, if one is not mentally prepared. Furthermore, due to the intense nature of the experience, DMT is generally considered to have no addiction potential.[6]

Speculation

DMT crystal at 400x magnification.

Several speculative and yet untested hypotheses suggest that endogenous DMT is produced in the human brain and is involved in certain psychological and neurological states. DMT is naturally occurring in small amounts in rat brain, human cerebrospinal fluid, and other tissues of humans and other mammals. It may play a role in mediating the visual effects of natural dreaming, and also near-death experiences, religious visions and other mystical states.[92] A biochemical mechanism for this was proposed by the medical researcher J. C. Callaway, who suggested in 1988 that DMT might be connected with visual dream phenomena: brain DMT levels would be periodically elevated to induce visual dreaming and possibly other natural states of mind.[93] A new hypothesis proposed is that in addition to being involved in altered states of consciousness, endogenous DMT may be involved in the creation of normal waking states of consciousness. It is proposed that DMT and other endogenous hallucinogens mediate their neurological abilities by acting as neurotransmitters at a sub class of the trace amine receptors; a group of receptors found in the CNS where DMT and other hallucinogens have been shown to have activity. Wallach further proposes that in this way waking consciousness can be thought of as a controlled psychedelic experience. It is when the control of these systems becomes loosened and their behavior no longer correlates with the external world that the altered states arise.[82]

Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the hypothesis that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience (NDE) phenomenon. Several of his test subjects reported NDE-like audio or visual hallucinations. His explanation for this was the possible lack of panic involved in the clinical setting and possible dosage differences between those administered and those encountered in actual NDE cases. Several subjects also reported contact with 'other beings', alien like, insectoid or reptilian in nature, in highly advanced technological environments[11] where the subjects were 'carried', 'probed', 'tested', 'manipulated', 'dismembered', 'taught', 'loved' and even 'raped' by these 'beings' (one could note the strong similarities of these bodily tests/invasions in other psychedelic experiences throughout time, outlined in Graham Hancock's "Supernatural"[94]). Basing his reasoning on the unreferenced and unsupported statement that all the enzymatic material needed to produce DMT is found in the pineal gland (see evidence in mammals), and moreover in substantially greater concentrations than in any other part of the body, Strassman (,[11] p. 69) has speculated that DMT is made in the pineal gland. Currently there is no published reliable scientific evidence supporting this hypothesis.

In the 1950s, the endogenous production of psychoactive agents was considered to be a potential explanation for the hallucinatory symptoms of some psychiatric diseases as the transmethylation hypothesis[95] (see also adrenochrome), though this hypothesis does not account for the natural presence of endogenous DMT in otherwise normal humans, rats and other laboratory animals.

Writers on DMT include Terence McKenna, Jeremy Narby and Graham Hancock. In his writings and speeches, Terence McKenna recounts encounters with entities he sometimes describes as "Self-Transforming Machine Elves" among other phrases. McKenna believed DMT to be a tool that could be used to enhance communication and allow for communication with other-worldly entities. Other users report visitation from external intelligences attempting to impart information. These Machine Elf experiences are said to be shared by only a minority of DMT users and some people report never seeing or experiencing anything of that nature.

International Law

DMT is classified as a Schedule I drug under the UN 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, meaning that use of DMT is supposed to be restricted to scientific research and medical use and international trade in DMT is supposed to be closely monitored. Natural materials containing DMT, including ayahuasca, are explicitly not regulated under the 1971 Psychotropic Convention.[96]

Canada

DMT is classified in Canada as a Schedule III drug.

France

DMT, along with most of its plant sources, is classified in France as a stupéfiant (Narcotic).

New Zealand

DMT is classified as a Class A drug in New Zealand.

United Kingdom

DMT is classified in the United Kingdom as a Class A drug.

United States

DMT is classified in the United States as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

In December 2004, the Supreme Court lifted a stay thereby allowing the Brazil-based União do Vegetal (UDV) church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year. This decoction is a "tea" made from boiled leaves and vines, known as hoasca within the UDV, and ayahuasca in different cultures. In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U.S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In September, 2008, the three Santo Daime churches filed suit in federal court to gain legal status to import DMT-containing ayahuasca tea. The case, Church of the Holy Light of the Queen v. Mukasey,[97] presided over by Judge Owen M. Panner, was ruled in favor of the Santo Daime church. As of March 21, 2009 a federal judge says members of the church in Ashland can import, distribute and brew ayahuasca. U.S. District Judge Owen Panner issued a permanent injunction barring the government from prohibiting or penalizing the sacramental use of "Daime tea." Panner's order said activities of The Church of the Holy Light of the Queen are legal and protected under freedom of religion. His order prohibits the federal government from interfering and prosecuting church members who follow a list of regulations set out in his order.[98]

Culture

In South America there are a number of indigenous traditions and more recent religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca, usually in an animistic context that may be mixed with Christian imagery. There are four main branches using DMT-MAOI based sacraments in South America:

  • Amazonian Peoples. There are many indigenous cultures in South America, mostly in the Upper Amazon Basin whose traditional religious practices include the use of ayahuasca. These are the oldest cultures in the whole of South America that continue to use ayahuasca or analogue brews, such as the ones made from Jurema in the Pernambuco, near Recife or Iquitos in Peru.
  • Santo Daime ("Saint Give Unto Me") and Barquinha ("Little Boat"). A syncretic religion from Brazil. The former was founded by Raimundo Irineu Serra in the early 1930s, as an esoteric Christian religion with shamanic tendencies. The Barquinha was derived from this one.
  • União do Vegetal (Union of Vegetal or UDV). Another Christian ayahuasca religion from Brazil, is a single unified organization with a democratic structure.
  • Neo-shamans. There are some self-styled shamanic facilitators in Brazil and other South American countries that use ayahuasca or analogous brews in their rituals and séances.

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