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Metacycline
Chemical compound / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Meticillin or Meclocycline.
Metacycline or methacycline is a tetracycline antibiotic. It is used as a precursor in the industrial synthesis of doxycycline hyclate.[citation needed]
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Formula | C22H22N2O8 |
Molar mass | 442.424 g·mol−1 |
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It has been found to act as an agonist of the human pregnane X receptor ligand-binding domain and to induce CYP3A4 expression in vitro.[1]