Α-Methyl-p-tyrosineα-Methyl-p-tyrosine (AMPT), or simply α-methyltyrosine, also known in its chiral 2-(S) form as metirosine, is a tyrosine hydroxylase enzyme inhibitor and is therefore a drug involved in inhibiting the catecholamine biosynthetic pathway. Read from the Chembox of the Wikipedia article Α-Methyl-p-tyrosine, revision 1367648619.

Property

Value

Formula

C10H13NO3, 195.22 g/mol

Elimination half-life

3.55 h

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