[Effect of the diethylamide of nicotinic acid (cordiamine) on the hydroxylating function of the liver].

Diethylamide of nicotinic acid (subcutaneously, 40 and 120 mg/kg, once a day for 4 days) was shown to exert no influence on p-hydroxylation of aniline and to increase the rate of N-demethylation of amidopyrine and ethylmorphine in the rat liver microsomal fraction by 21 and 47% as compared with the control. At the same dose of 40 mg/kg and the same schedule of administration the drug was found to increase urine excretion of antipyrine metabolites: nor-antipyrine, 4-hydroxy-antipyrine and the sum of metabolites by 229, 89 and 80%, respectively, during the first 90 min of the experiment. Excretion of antipyrine, 3-hydroxymethyl-antipyrine and 3-carboxymethyl-antipyrine underwent no significant changes. The duration of hexobarbital-induced sleep of the rats was shown to be decreased by 26%.