Table 1.

Urinary metabolic ratio (MR) of DEX with its metabolites (n = 6).

Subjects	Urinary metabolic ratio DEX/DOR		Urinary metabolic ratio DEX/3-MM
	MR, control	MR, phase-II	MR, control	MR, phase-II
1	0.034	0.049	2.387	3.388
2	0.067	0.086	4.382	8.0586
3	0.030	0.060	1.382	2.781
4	0.028	0.038	0.379	0.519
5	0.032	0.044	2.118	3.666
6	0.073	0.090	3.770	5.160
Mean	0.044	0.061	2.403	3.929
SD	0.020	0.022	1.483	2.524
P	0.002		0.025