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Weiss M. Is the One-Compartment Model with First Order Absorption a Useful Approximation? Pharm Res 2023; 40:2147-2153. [PMID: 37594592 PMCID: PMC10547630 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-023-03582-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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PURPOSE The one-compartment model with first order absorption (ka1C) has been extensively used to fit oral data. But when the disposition parameters of the drug are not available, the bias in the parameter estimates remains unclear. In this paper, the effect of potential misspecification of the area under the curve (AUC) and the mean absorption time (MAT) was evaluated for three relatively slowly absorbed drugs/formulations. METHODS Assuming a three-compartment disposition model with an input (absorption) rate described as a sum of two inverse Gaussian functions (2IG3C) as the true model, the deviations of AUC and MAT estimated with simpler models were analyzed. Simpler models, as the ka1C model (Bateman function), the one-compartment model with IG input function (IG1C) and the gamma density function were fitted to the oral data alone, and compared to the fits obtained with the 2IG3C model which also uses the 3C disposition parameters of the drug. Data from pharmacokinetic studies of trospium, propiverine and ketamine in healthy volunteers were analyzed using a population approach. RESULTS The Bateman function (ka1C) allowed a robust estimation of the population mean AUC, but the individual estimates were highly biased. It failed in evaluating MAT. The simple alternative models did not improve the situation. CONCLUSIONS The Bateman function appears to be useful for estimating the population mean value of AUC after oral administration. The results reemphasize the fact that insight into the absorption process can be only gained when also intravenous reference data are available.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael Weiss
- Department of Pharmacology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.
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Relationship Between Dissolution Rate in Vitro and Absorption Rate in Vivo of Ketamine Prolonged-Release Tablets. Eur J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet 2023; 48:133-140. [PMID: 36646846 PMCID: PMC10011298 DOI: 10.1007/s13318-022-00812-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Understanding the processes that determine the time course of drug absorption rates is of great interest. This study aims to answer the questions: (1) How well can the in vitro dissolution rate predict the in vivo input function (absorption rate) of a prolonged-release ketamine dosage form (PR-ketamine)? (2) Is the information obtained from the in vitro dissolution rate profile useful in estimating bioavailability? METHODS In vivo plasma concentration data were obtained from 15 healthy volunteers after intravenous and oral dosing of 20 mg PR-ketamine tablets. Both the dissolution and input rates were modeled by a sum of two inverse Gaussian functions. RESULTS The absorption process was dissolution-limited but the mean input time exceeded the mean dissolution time. When the delayed dissolution rate was used to fit the oral data, the estimated bioavailability was nearly identical to that obtained with the full model. The in vitro dissolution rate profile could be used to develop a one-point sampling strategy for predicting bioavailability. According to their fractional rate profiles, dissolution and input rates belong to different classes of functions. CONCLUSION A comparison of the time course of the absorption rate with that of the dissolution rate can reveal more details of the absorption process.
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Weiss M, D'Argenio DZ, Siegmund W. Analysis of Complex Absorption After Multiple Dosing: Application to the Interaction Between the P-glycoprotein Substrate Talinolol and Rifampicin. Pharm Res 2022; 39:3293-3300. [PMID: 36163409 PMCID: PMC9780127 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-022-03397-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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PURPOSE In order to clarify the effect of rifampicin on the bioavailability of the P-glycoprotein substrate talinolol, its absorption kinetics was modeled after multiple-dose oral administration of talinolol in healthy subjects. METHODS A sum of two inverse Gaussian functions was used to calculate the time course of the input rate into the systemic circulation. RESULTS The estimated rate of drug entry into the systemic circulation revealed two distinct peaks at 1 and 3.5 h after administration. Rifampicin did not affect bioavailability of talinolol, but did shift the second peak of the input function by 1.3 h to later times. Elimination clearance and one of the intercompartmental distribution clearances increased significantly under rifampicin treatment. CONCLUSIONS Rifampicin changes the time course of absorption rate but not the fraction absorbed of talinolol. The model suggests the existence of two intestinal absorption windows for talinolol.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael Weiss
- Department of Pharmacology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Weiss M, Siegmund W. Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Ketamine Enantiomers and Their Metabolites After Administration of Prolonged-Release Ketamine With Emphasis on 2,6-Hydroxynorketamines. Clin Pharmacol Drug Dev 2021; 11:194-206. [PMID: 34265182 DOI: 10.1002/cpdd.993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Modeling of metabolite kinetics after oral administration of ketamine is of special interest because of the higher concentrations of active metabolites because of the hepatic first-pass effect. This holds especially in view of the potential analgesic and antidepressant effects of 2R,6R- and 2S,6S-hydroxynorketamine at low doses of ketamine. Therefore, a 9-compartment model was developed to analyze the pharmacokinetics of ketamine enantiomers and their metabolites after racemic ketamine administered intravenously (5 mg) and as 4 doses (10, 20, 40, and 80 mg) of a prolonged-release formulation (PR-ketamine). Using a population approach, the serum concentration-time data of the enantiomers of ketamine, norketamine, dehydronorketamine, and 2,6-hydroxynorketamine obtained in 15 healthy volunteers could be adequately fitted. The estimated model parameters were used to simulate serum concentration-time profiles; after multiple dosing of PR-ketamine (2 daily doses of 20 mg), the steady-state concentrations of R- and S-ketamine were 1.4 and 1.3 ng/mL, respectively. The steady-state concentration of 2R,6R-hydroxynorketamine exceeded those of R-norketamine (4-fold), R-dehydonorketamine (8-fold), and R-ketamine (46-fold), whereas that of 2S,6S-hydroxynorketamine exceeded that of S-ketamine by 14-fold. The model may be useful for identifying dosing regimens aiming at optimal plasma concentrations of 2,6-hydroxynorketamines.
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- Michael Weiss
- Department of Pharmacology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Abebe BT, Weiss M, Modess C, Tadken T, Wegner D, Meyer MJ, Schwantes U, Neumeister C, Scheuch E, Schulz HU, Tzvetkov M, Siegmund W. Pharmacokinetic Drug-Drug Interactions Between Trospium Chloride and Ranitidine Substrates of Organic Cation Transporters in Healthy Human Subjects. J Clin Pharmacol 2019; 60:312-323. [PMID: 31542894 DOI: 10.1002/jcph.1523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Trospium chloride, a muscarinic receptor blocker, is poorly absorbed with different rates from areas in the jejunum and the cecum/ascending colon. To evaluate whether organic cation transporter (OCT) 1, OCT2 and multidrug and toxin extrusion (MATE) 1 and MATE2-K are involved in pharmacokinetics, competitions with ranitidine, a probe inhibitor of the cation transporters, were evaluated in transfected HEK293 cells. Furthermore, a drug interaction study with trospium chloride after intravenous (2 mg) and oral dosing (30 mg) plus ranitidine (300 mg) was performed in 12 healthy subjects and evaluated by noncompartmental analysis and population pharmacokinetic modeling. Ranitidine inhibited OCT1, OCT2, MATE1, and MATE2-K with half maximal inhibitory concentration values of 186 ± 25 µM, 482 ± 105 µM, 134 ± 37 µM, and 35 ± 11 µM, respectively. In contrast to our hypothesis, coadministration of ranitidine did not significantly decrease oral absorption of trospium. Instead, renal clearance was lowered by ∼15% (530 ± 99 vs 460 ± 120 mL/min; P < .05). It is possible that ranitidine was not available in competitive concentrations at the major colonic absorption site, as the inhibitor is absorbed in the small intestine and undergoes degradation by microbiota. The renal effects apparently result from inhibition of MATE1 and/or MATE2-K by ranitidine as predicted by in vitro to in vivo extrapolation. However, all pharmacokinetic changes were not of clinical relevance for the drug with highly variable pharmacokinetics. Intravenous trospium significantly lowered mean absorption time and relative bioavailability of ranitidine, which was most likely caused by muscarinic receptor blocking effects on intestinal motility and water turnover.
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- Bayew Tsega Abebe
- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department Medical Science/Clinical Research, Dr. Pfleger Arzneimittel GmbH, Bamberg, Germany
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- Department Medical Science/Clinical Research, Dr. Pfleger Arzneimittel GmbH, Bamberg, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- LAFAA Laboratory for Contract Research in Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutical Analytics GmbH, Bad Schwartau, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Abebe BT, Weiss M, Modess C, Roustom T, Tadken T, Wegner D, Schwantes U, Neumeister C, Schulz HU, Scheuch E, Siegmund W. Effects of the P-Glycoprotein Inhibitor Clarithromycin on the Pharmacokinetics of Intravenous and Oral Trospium Chloride: A 4-Way Crossover Drug-Drug Interaction Study in Healthy Subjects. J Clin Pharmacol 2019; 59:1319-1330. [PMID: 30973998 DOI: 10.1002/jcph.1421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The quaternary ammonium compound trospium chloride is poorly absorbed from 2 "absorption windows" in the jejunum and cecum/ascending colon, respectively. To confirm whether intestinal P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is involved, a 4-period, crossover drug interaction study with trospium chloride after intravenous (2 mg) and oral administration (30 mg) without and after comedication of clarithromycin (500 mg), an inhibitor for P-gp, was initiated in 12 healthy subjects. Pharmacokinetics of trospium was evaluated using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, noncompartmental evaluation, and pharmacokinetic modeling. Trospium chloride was poorly absorbed after oral administration (absolute bioavailability, ∼8%-10%). About 30% of the bioavailable dose fraction was absorbed from the "narrow window". Comedication with clarithromycin increased steady-state distribution volumes by ∼27% (P < .01). Bioavailability was not increased as hypothesized. The geometric mean ratios (90% confidence interval) for area under the plasma concentration-time curve, maximum concentration, and renal clearance accounted for 0.75 (0.56-1.01), 0.64 (0.45-0.89), and 1.00 (0.90-1.13), respectively. The amount of trospium absorbed from the "narrow window" was reduced in all subjects but from the "wider window" in only 9 of them. Bioavailability was strongly predicted by the maximum absorption rate of trospium in the distal "window" (rs2 = 0.910, P < .0001). In conclusion, the P-gp inhibitor clarithromycin significantly increases distribution volumes but not oral absorption of trospium. The amount absorbed from the "narrow window" was lowered in all subjects. However, the extent of all influences seems not to be of clinical relevance.
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- Bayew Tsega Abebe
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department Medical Science/Clinical Research, Dr. Pfleger Arzneimittel GmbH, Bamberg, Germany
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- Department Medical Science/Clinical Research, Dr. Pfleger Arzneimittel GmbH, Bamberg, Germany
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- LAFAA, Laboratory for Contract Research in Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutical Analytics GmbH, Bad Schwartau, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport (C_DAT), University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Shuryak I, Dadachova E. Usefulness of continuous probability distributions of rates for modelling radionuclide biokinetics in humans and animals. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1218. [PMID: 30718770 PMCID: PMC6362015 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-38046-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Modelling the biokinetics of radionuclide excretion or retention is important in nuclear medicine and following accidental/malicious radioactivity releases. Sums of discrete exponential decay rates are often used, but we hypothesized that continuous probability distributions (CPD) of decay rates can describe the data more parsimoniously and robustly. We tested this hypothesis on diverse human and animal data sets involving various radionuclides (including plutonium, strontium, caesium) measured in the laboratory and in regions contaminated by the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear accidents. We used four models on each data set: mono-exponential (ME) with one discrete decay rate, bi-exponential (BE) with two rates, gamma-exponential (GE) with a Gamma distribution of stretched-exponential rates, and power-decay (PD) with a Gamma distribution of power-decay rates. Information-theoretic model selection suggested that radionuclide biokinetics, e.g. for plutonium in humans, are often better described by CPD models like GE and PD, than by discrete rates (ME and BE). Extrapolation of models fitted to data at short times to longer times was frequently more robust for CPD formalisms. We suggest that using a set of several CPD and discrete-rate models, and comparing them by information-theoretic methods, is a promising strategy to enhance the analysis of radionuclide excretion and retention kinetics.
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- Igor Shuryak
- Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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