Mexiletine hydrochloride

개요Mexiletine is a voltage-gated sodium channel blocker and class Ib antiarrhythmic agent that preferentially binds to open/inactive channels. It inhibits aconitine-induced dysrhythmias in mice with ED50 values of 57 and 107 mg/kg for intraperitoneal and oral administration, respectively. Mexiletine decreases or inhibits conduction across the Purkinje fiber-muscle junction, shortens action potential duration, and decreases the refractory period when used at concentrations less than 5 μg/ml in isolated canine Purkinje fiber and ventricular muscle preparations.

용도Mexiletine hydrochloride has been used as a sodium channel blocker: expressed in chinese hamster ovary cellsin human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells for whole cell patch-clamp studieselectrophysiology studies in HEK cells expressing Nav1.7 protein

일반 설명Mexiletine hydrochloride,1-methyl-2-(2,6-xylyloxy)ethylamine hydrochloride (Mexitil)(pKa 8.4), is a class IB antiarrhythmic agent that is effectivewhen given either intravenously or orally. It resembles lidocainein possessing a xylyl moiety but otherwise is differentchemically. Mexiletine hydrochloride is an ether and is notsubject to the hydrolysis common to the amides lidocaineand tocainide. Its mean half-life on oral administration isapproximately 10 hours.Although not subject to hydrolysis, mexiletine hydrochlorideis metabolized by oxidative and reductiveprocesses in the liver. Its metabolites, p-hydroxymexiletineand hydroxymethylmexiletine, are not pharmacologicallyactive as antiarrhythmic agents.