Transformations of alkaloids of the quinazolin-4-one group in the animal organism

Summary It has been found by chromato-mass spectrometry that the main product of the transformation of deoxy-vasicinone excreted with rat urine in the unbound form is vasicinone. Vasicinone used as a drug is excreted predominantly in the unchanged form.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 250–254, March–April, 1977.