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Trade namesTransdermscop, Kwells, others
Other nameshyoscine hydrobromide, scopolamine hydrobromide
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MetabolismLiver
Elimination half-life4.5 hours[1]
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  • (–)-(S)-3-Hydroxy-2-phenylpropionic acid (1R,2R,4S,7S,9S)-9-methyl-3-oxa-9-azatricyclo[3.3.1.02,4]non-7-yl ester
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FormulaC17H21NO4
Molar mass303.353 g/mol g·mol−1
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Hyoscine, also known as scopolamine,[2] is a medication used to treat motion sickness and postoperative nausea and vomiting. It is also sometimes used before surgery to decrease saliva. When used by injection effects begin after about 20 minutes and last for up to 8 hours. It may also be used by mouth and as a skin patch.[3]

Common side effects include sleepiness, blurred vision, dilated pupils, and dry mouth. It is not recommended in people with glaucoma or bowel obstruction.[3] It is unclear if use during pregnancy is safe; however, it appears to be safe during breastfeeding.[4] Hyoscine is in the antimuscarinic family of medications and works by blocking some of the effects of acetylcholine within the nervous system.[3]

Hyoscine was first written about in 1881 and came into medical use in 1947.[5] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system.[6] Hyoscine is produced from plants of the nightshade family.[7] The name "scopolamine" is derived from one type of nightshade known as Scopolia while "hyoscine" is from another type known as Hyoscyamus niger.[8][9]

Medical use edit

Hyoscine has a number of uses in medicine, where it is used to treat the following:[10][11]

It is sometimes used as a premedication (especially to reduce respiratory tract secretions) to surgery, mostly commonly by injection.[10][11]

Pregnancy edit

Scopolamine crosses the placenta and is a pregnancy category C medication, meaning a risk to the fetus cannot be ruled out. Either studies in animals have revealed adverse effects on the fetus (teratogenic or embryocidal effects or other) and no controlled studies in women have been made, or studies in women and animals are not available. Drugs should be given only if the potential benefits justify the potential risk to the fetus. It may cause respiratory depression and/or neonatal hemorrhage when used during pregnancy, and some animal studies did report adverse events.[citation needed] Transdermal scopolamine has been used as an adjunct to epidural anesthesia for Caesarean delivery without adverse CNS effects on the newborn. Except when used prior to Caesarean section, it should only be used during pregnancy if the benefit to the mother outweighs the potential risk to the fetus.

Breastfeeding edit

Scopolamine enters breast milk by secretion. Although no human studies exist to document the safety of scopolamine while nursing, the manufacturer recommends that caution be taken if scopolamine is administered to a breastfeeding woman.[15]

Elderly edit

The likelihood of experiencing adverse effects from scopolamine is increased in the elderly relative to younger people. This phenomenon is especially true for older people who are also on several other medications. It is recommended that scopolamine use should be avoided in this age group because of these potent anticholinergic adverse effects.[16]

Adverse effects edit

Adverse effect incidence:[17][18][19][20]

Uncommon (0.1–1% incidence) adverse effects include:

Rare (<0.1% incidence) adverse effects include:

Unknown frequency adverse effects include:

Overdose edit

Physostigmine is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor that readily crosses the blood-brain barrier, and has been used as an antidote to treat the central nervous system depression symptoms of scopolamine overdose.[21] Other than this supportive treatment, gastric lavage and induced emesis (vomiting) are usually recommended as treatments for oral overdoses.[20] The symptoms of overdose include:[19][20]

Hospitalizations edit

About one in five emergency room admissions for poisoning in Bogotá, Colombia, have been attributed to scopolamine.[22] Most commonly, the victim has been poisoned by a robber that gave the victim a scoplamine-laced beverage, in the hope that the victim would become unconscious or unable to effectively resist the robbery.[22] In June 2008, more than 20 people were hospitalized with psychosis in Norway after ingesting counterfeit Rohypnol tablets containing scopolamine.[23]

Interactions edit

Due to interactions with metabolism of other drugs, scopolamine can cause significant unwanted side effects when taken with other medications. Specific attention should be paid to other medications in the same pharmacologic class as scopolamine, also known as anticholinergics. The following medications could potentially interact with the metabolism of scopolamine: analgesics/pain medications, ethanol, zolpidem, thiazide diuretics, buprenorphine, anticholinergic drugs such as tiotropium, etc.

Route of administration edit

Scopolamine can be taken by mouth, subcutaneously, ophthalmically and intravenously, as well as via a transdermal patch.[24] The transdermal patch (e.g., Transderm Scōp) for prevention of nausea and motion sickness employs scopolamine base, and is effective for up to three days.[25] The oral, ophthalmic, and intravenous forms have shorter half-lives and are usually found in the form scopolamine hydrobromide (for example in Scopace, soluble 0.4 mg tablets or Donnatal).

NASA is currently developing a nasal administration method. With a precise dosage, the NASA spray formulation has been shown to work faster and more reliably than the oral form.[26]

Mechanism of action edit

The alkaloid Scopolamine is referred to as an anticholinergic as it is a non-selective muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (MaChR) antagonist [27] (However there is some indirect evidence for m1-receptor subtype specificity.[28]). It is a competitive inhibitor as it blocks the action of endogenous acetylcholine, or other exogenous agonists by binding to the receptors but not activating them.[29] Scopolamine decreases the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system, which is why it is used in the treatment of motion sickness. It is thought to be involved in blocking the acetylcholinergic transmissions from the vestibular part of the ear to the vomiting centre of the brain, located in the medulla oblongata[30] therefore preventing vomiting.[31]


As it is a non-selective inhibitor it shows similar binding affinities to all five of the muscarinic receptor sub-types (M1-M5). M1, M3 and M5 are excitatory receptors that are preferentially coupled to Gq/11 and activate phospholipase C, leading to a cascade of reactions leading to the activation of protein kinase C. M2 and M4, on the other hand, and inhibitory receptors that are coupled to Gi/o, and inhibit adenylyl cyclase activity.[32] This means that the physiological effects of scopolamine can vary depending which receptor sub type it binds to.

Biosynthesis in plants edit

Scopolamine is among the secondary metabolites of plants from Solanaceae (nightshade) family of plants, such as henbane, jimson weed (Datura), angel's trumpets (Brugmansia), and corkwood (Duboisia).[33][8]

Synthesis edit

Biosynthesis edit

The biosynthesis of scopolamine begins with the decarboxylation of L-ornithine to putrescine by ornithine decarboxylase. Putrescine is methylated to N-methylputrescine by putrescine N-methyltransferase.[34]

A putrescine oxidase that specifically recognizes methylated putrescine catalyzes the deamination of this compound to 4-methylaminobutanal, which then undergoes a spontaneous ring formation to N-methyl-pyrrolium cation. In the next step, the pyrrolium cation condenses with acetoacetic acid yielding hygrine. No enzymatic activity could be demonstrated to catalyze this reaction. Hygrine further rearranges to tropinone.[34]

Subsequently, tropinone reductase I converts tropinone to tropine which condenses with phenylalanine-derived phenyllactate to littorine. A cytochrome P450 classified as Cyp80F1[35] oxidizes and rearranges littorine to hyoscyamine aldehyde. In the final step, hyoscyamine undergoes epoxidation catalyzed by 6beta-hydroxyhyoscyamine epoxidase yielding scopolamine.[34]

 

Chemical Synthesis edit

The 1st chemical synthesis of scopolamine was reported by Fodor et al. in 1959 with acetyltropanol as an important intermediate.[36] Even though there have been precursors to the final product reported, the next full chemical synthesis of scopolamine wasn’t until 2016 by Pierre-Antoine Nocquet and Till Opatz. [37]

Their synthesis involves the intermediate 6,7- dehydrotropine (3). This intermediate was obtained firstly from a [4 + 3] cycloaddition between pyrrole (2) and diazo ester (1) and then a from the dealkoxycarbonylation of a keto-ester (4). Scopolamine (7) can be synthesized from this intermediate by an esterification reaction between acetyltropic acid chloride and alcohol (5) and then by H2O2-mediated epoxidation of the alkene (6). A scheme for this synthesis, including reagents and conditions is shown below.

 
A chemical synthesis of scopolamine.


History edit

One of the earlier alkaloids isolated from plant sources, scopolamine has been in use in its purified forms (such as various salts, including hydrochloride, hydrobromide, hydroiodide and sulfate), since its isolation by the German scientist Albert Ladenburg in 1880, and as various preparations from its plant-based form since antiquity and perhaps prehistoric times. Following the description of the structure and activity of scopolamine by Ladenburg, the search for synthetic analogues of and methods for total synthesis of scopolamine and/or atropine in the 1930s and 1940s resulted in the discovery of diphenhydramine, an early antihistamine and the prototype of its chemical subclass of these drugs, and pethidine, the first fully synthetic opioid analgesic, known as Dolatin and Demerol amongst many other trade names.

Scopolamine was used in conjunction with morphine, oxycodone, or other opioids from before 1900 into the 1960s to put mothers in labor into a kind of "twilight sleep". The analgesia from scopolamine plus a strong opioid is deep enough to allow higher doses to be used as a form of anaesthesia.

Scopolamine mixed with oxycodone (Eukodal) and ephedrine was marketed by Merck as SEE (from the German initials of the ingredients) and Scophedal starting in 1928, and the mixture is sometimes mixed on site on rare occasions in the area of its greatest historical usage, namely Germany and Central Europe.

Scopolamine was also one of the active ingredients in Asthmador, an over-the-counter (OTC) smoking preparation marketed in the 1950s and 1960s claiming to combat asthma and bronchitis. In November 1990, the US Food and Drug Administration forced OTC products with scopolamine and several hundred other ingredients that had allegedly not been proved effective off the market. Scopolamine shared a small segment of the OTC sleeping pill market with diphenhydramine, phenyltoloxamine, pyrilamine, doxylamine, and other first-generation antihistamines, many of which are still used for this purpose in drugs such as Sominex, Tylenol PM, NyQuil, etc.

Society and culture edit

Names edit

Hyoscine hydrobromide is the International Nonproprietary Name, and scopolamine hydrobromide is the United States Adopted Name. Other names include levo-duboisine, Devil's Breath and burundanga.[22]

Recreational use edit

While it has been occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often unpleasant, mentally and physically. It is also physically dangerous, so repeated use is rare.[38]

Interrogation edit

The effects of scopolamine were studied for use as a truth serum in interrogations in the early 20th century,[39] but because of the side effects, investigations were dropped.[40] In 2009, it was proven that Czechoslovak communist state security secret police used scopolamine at least three times to obtain confessions from alleged antistate conspirators.[41]

Crime edit

In 1910, scopolamine was detected in the remains believed to be those of Cora Crippen, wife of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, and was accepted at the time as the cause of her death, since her husband was known to have bought some at the start of the year.[42]

The drug is known to produce loss of memory of events recently before exposure and sleepiness, similar to the effect of benzodiazepines or alcohol poisoning, which affects the ability of a person to resist criminal aggression. A travel advisory published by the United States Department of State in 2012 stated:

One common and particularly dangerous method that criminals use in order to rob a victim is through the use of drugs. The most common [in Colombia] has been scopolamine. Unofficial estimates put the number of annual scopolamine incidents in Colombia at approximately 50,000. Scopolamine can render a victim unconscious for 24 hours or more. In large doses, it can cause respiratory failure and death. It is most often administered in liquid or powder form in foods and beverages. The majority of these incidents occur in night clubs and bars, and usually men, perceived to be wealthy, are targeted by young, attractive women. To avoid becoming a victim of scopolamine, one should never accept food or beverages offered by strangers or new acquaintances or leave food or beverages unattended. Victims of scopolamine or other drugs should seek immediate medical attention.[43]

Beside robberies it is also allegedly involved in express kidnappings and sexual assault.[44] The Hospital Clínic in Barcelona introduced a special protocol in 2008 to help medical workers identify cases, while Madrid hospitals adopted a similar working document in February 2015.[44] However, Hospital Clínic has found little scientific evidence to support this use and relies on the victims' stories to reach any conclusion.[44] Although poisoning by scopolamine appears quite often in the media as an aid for raping, kidnapping, killing or robbery, the effects of this drug and the way it is applied by criminals (added to drinks, transdermal injection, on playing cards and papers etc.) are often exaggerated,[45][46][47] especially the transdermal uses, as the dose that can be absorbed by the skin is too low to have any effect[44] (scopolamine transdermal patches must be used for hours to days).[24]

Giulia Tofana edit

Scopolamine is also thought to be one of the main active ingredients in a poison called “aqua Tofana” invented by Giulia Tofana and her daughter around 1630. The main active ingredients are known to be belladonna (the source of scopolamine) arsenic and lead.[48] The arsenic is probably the cause of the symptoms that include throwing up, dehydration, diarrhoea and a burning sensation in the digestive system [49]. However, the poison was also ascribed magical properties, [50] which would come from the hallucinogenic effects of scopolamine (and also the atropine from the belladonna). The fact that aqua Tofana is thought to be a “slow poison” (i.e. requires a few doses over a period of time to cause death) can, in part, be attributed to the lead. The body is unable to break down lead, so it can build up to a toxic level. [51]

Aqua Tofana use had become notorious by the start of the 18th century, and was the subject of a trial in 1659 3. It is thought that this could be the trial of Giulia Tofana herself, although there are various different accounts of how she may have died, including a source that says that she met her end due to natural causes in 1651, but others saying that she was executed in 1709 and others saying she was executed in 1730. [52]


Research edit

Scopolamine has been used as a research tool to study the involvement of acetylcholine in cognition. Results in primates suggest that acetylcholine is involved in the encoding of new information into long term memory.[53] Scopolamine has also been investigated as an antidepressant with a number of small studies finding positive results.[54][55][56][57]

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