The value of haloperidol (HAL) in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders has been well established. Its metabolism has been studied intensively. HAL is N-dealkylated to p-fluorobenzoylpropionic acid (FBPA) and to 4-(4-chlorophenyl) -4-hydroxypiperidene (CPHP), 1 reduction of the benzylic ketone produces reduced haloperidol (RHAL) by a cytosolic carbonyl reductase, 2 RHAL is reversely oxidated to HAL, 3 and HAL and RHAL undergo glucuronide conjugation. 4 Moreover, several other metabolic pathways of HAL are known, including formation of neurotoxic pyridinium metabolites by CYP3 A4.In vitro 3,5 and in vivo 6-8 studies suggested the involvement of CYP2D6 in HAL metabolism. Disposition of HAL is related to the polymorphic debrisoquine oxidation phenotype, 7 and the oxidation of RHAL to HAL is inhibited in vitro by quinidine, a potent inhibitor of CYP2D6, 3 although Young et al. have shown that quinidine does not affect the interconversion of HAL and RHAL. 9 CYP2D6 activity is reported in population studies to be bimodally distributed. Subjects who lack CYP2D6 activity are referred to as poor metabolizers, and they can be detected by screening for the specific alleles, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (1999)
AbstractWe investigated the effect of cytochrome P450 (CYP2D6) genotypes on plasma levels of haloperidol (HAL) and reduced haloperidol (RHAL) in 47 Japanese male schizophrenic inpatients being treated with HAL. Mutation-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis was used to detect CYP2D6*10 as the C188C1T mutation in exon 1. A long-PCR analysis method was used to detect CYP2D6*5. Allele frequencies of CYP2D6*5 and CYP2D6*10 were 4.3% and 34.0%, respectively. Plasma concentrations of HAL and RHAL were measured using high-performance liquid chromatography. The ranges of the plasma concentration of HAL and RHAL corrected to the dose were 0.28-1.60 (mean ± SD, 0.66 ± 0.25, n = 47) ng/mL/mg and 0.03-3.00 (mean ± SD, 0.36 ± 0.46, n = 47) ng/mL, respectively. Plasma RHAL/HAL ratios (R/H ratios) ranged from 0.06 to 1.88 (mean ± SD, 0.48 ± 0.32, n = 47). The analysis was performed among the four genotype groups:CYP2D6*1/CYP2D6*1 (n = 11), CYP2D6*1/CYP2D6*10 (n = 11), CYP2D6*10/CYP2D6*10 (n = 6) and those who have CYP2D6*5 allele (CYP2D6*1/ CYP2D6*5 or CYP2D6*5/CYP2D6*10 (n = 4). We observed significant tendency in effects of CYP2D6 genotypes on plasma concentration of HAL and significant effects on plasma concentration of RHAL, and R/H ratio. These results we obtained suggested that the plasma concentration of HAL and RHAL were determined partly by CYP2D6 polymorphic activity.