Abstract: | Subcellular fractions of three human brain specimens were found to contain esterase activities which hydrolyzed racemic oxazepam 3-acetate (rac-OXA). All three human brain preparations were highly selective toward the S-enantiomer of rac-OXA. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 1 This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America. |