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Octopamine

What the body does with Octopamine, from the dose to the exit, as its Wikipedia drug infobox records it.

Quoted from the Wikipedia infobox, not yet written up by hand. The order is the usual order of events, not a measured schedule.

OctopaminetakenExitUp to 93% of ingested octopamine is elim

The clock, on a log scale

Each bar runs from the dose to about five half-lives, roughly when 97% of that molecule has been converted or cleared. The scale is logarithmic so minutes and days fit on one line.

  1. doseabsorbed

    Bioavailability

    99.42% 1

  2. hoursbreakdown

    Metabolism

    p-Hydroxymandelic acid; N-acetyltransferases; phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase 1

  3. half-lifehalf gone

    Elimination half-life

    15 minutes in insects. Between 76 and 175 minutes in humans 1

  4. exitleaves the body

    Excretion

    Up to 93% of ingested octopamine is eliminated via the urinary route within 24 hours 1

Source

  1. Wikipedia, Octopamine, drug infobox (revision 1369726080), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.