代谢
生物转化的主要途径涉及去氧糖或大环内酯环9a位置上的N-脱甲基化。其他代谢途径包括克拉定糖和去氧糖部分以及大环内酯环的O-脱甲基化和水解和/或羟基化。已经鉴定出阿奇霉素的最多10种代谢物,所有这些代谢物在微生物学上均不活跃。尽管短期给予阿奇霉素会导致药物在肝脏中积累并增加阿奇霉素脱甲基酶活性,但目前证据表明,通过细胞色素-代谢物复合物形成导致肝脏细胞色素p450诱导失活的情况并不发生。与红霉素不同,阿奇霉素不会通过此途径抑制其自身的代谢。
The principal route of biotransformation involves N-demethylation of the desosamine sugar or at the 9a position on the macrolide ring. Other metabolic pathways include O-demethylation and hydrolysis and/or hydroxylation of the cladinose and desosamine sugar moieties and the macrolide ring. Up to 10 metabolites of azithromycin have been identified, and all are microbiologically inactive. While short-term administration of azithromycin produces hepatic accumulation of the drug and increases azithromycin demethylase activity, current evidence indicates that hepatic cytochrome p450 induction of inactivation via cytochrome-metabolite complex formation does not occur. In contrast to erythromycin, azithromycin does not inhibit its own metabolism via this pathway.
来源:Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)