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Eckernäs E, Macan-Schönleben A, Andresen-Bergström M, Birgersson S, Hoffmann KJ, Ashton M. N, N-dimethyltryptamine forms oxygenated metabolites via CYP2D6 - an in vitro investigation. Xenobiotica 2023; 53:515-522. [PMID: 37916667 DOI: 10.1080/00498254.2023.2278488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a psychedelic compound that has shown potential in the treatment of depression. Aside from the primary role of monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) in DMT metabolism, the metabolic pathways are poorly understood. Increasing this understanding is an essential aspect of ensuring safe and efficacious use of DMT.This work aimed to investigate the cytochrome 450 (CYP) mediated metabolism of DMT by incubating DMT with recombinant human CYP enzymes and human liver microsomes (HLM) followed by analysis using high-resolution mass spectrometry for metabolite identification.DMT was rapidly metabolised by CYP2D6, while stable with all other investigated CYP enzymes. The metabolism of DMT in HLM was reduced after inclusion of harmine and SKF-525A whereas quinidine did not affect the metabolic rate, likely due to MAO-A residues present in HLM. Analysis of the CYP2D6 incubates showed formation of mono-, di- and tri-oxygenated metabolites, likely as a result of hydroxylation on the indole core.More research is needed to investigate the role of this metabolic pathway in vivo and any pharmacological activity of the proposed metabolites. Our findings may impact on safety issues following intake of ayahuasca in slow CYP2D6 metabolizers or with concomitant use of CYP2D6 inhibitors.
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- Emma Eckernäs
- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Sundell J, Bienvenu E, Janzén D, Birgersson S, Äbelö A, Ashton M. Model-Based Assessment of Variability in Isoniazid Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Patients Co-Infected With Tuberculosis and HIV: Implications for a Novel Dosing Strategy. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2020; 108:73-80. [PMID: 32017035 DOI: 10.1002/cpt.1806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Tuberculosis is the most common cause of death in HIV-infected patients. Isoniazid is used as a first-line drug to treat tuberculosis infection. However, variability in isoniazid pharmacokinetics can result in hepatotoxicity or treatment failure. Determination of clinical factors affecting isoniazid pharmacokinetics and metabolic pathways in HIV co-infected patients is therefore critical. Plasma levels of isoniazid, acetyl-isoniazid, and isonicotinic acid from 63 patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV were analyzed by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry followed by nonlinear mixed-effects modeling. Patients were genotyped to determine acetylator status. Patients were either on concomitant efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy or HIV treatment naïve. Clearances of isoniazid were 1.3-fold and 2.3-fold higher in intermediate and rapid acetylators, respectively, compared with slow acetylators. Patients on concomitant efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy had 64% and 80% higher population predicted clearances of acetyl-isoniazid and isonicotinic acid, respectively, compared with patients who were HIV treatment naïve. Both sex and CD4 cell count affected the bioavailability of isoniazid. Variability in isoniazid exposure could be reduced by dose adaptions based on acetylator type and sex in addition to the currently used weight bands. A novel dosing strategy that has the potential to reduce isoniazid-related toxicity and treatment failure is presented.
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- Jesper Sundell
- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda
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- Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Early Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Birgersson S, Valea I, Tinto H, Traore-Coulibaly M, Toe LC, Hoglund RM, Van Geertruyden JP, Ward SA, D’Alessandro U, Abelö A, Tarning J. Population pharmacokinetics of artesunate and dihydroartemisinin in pregnant and non-pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Burkina Faso: an open label trial. Wellcome Open Res 2019; 4:45. [PMID: 32025570 PMCID: PMC6974929 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14849.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Background: Malaria during pregnancy is a major health risk for both the mother and the foetus. Pregnancy has been shown to influence the pharmacokinetics of a number of different antimalarial drugs. This might lead to an under-exposure in these patients which could increase the risk of treatment failure and the development of drug resistance. The study aim was to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of artesunate and dihydroartemisinin in pregnant and non-pregnant patients using a population modelling approach. Methods: Twenty-four women in their second and third trimester of pregnancy and twenty-four paired non-pregnant women, all with uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria, were enrolled in this study. Treatment was a fixed-dose combination of oral artesunate and mefloquine once daily for three days. Frequent blood samples were collected and concentration-time data for artesunate and dihydroartemisinin were analysed simultaneously using nonlinear mixed-effects modelling. Results: Artesunate pharmacokinetics was best described by a transit-compartment absorption model followed by a one-compartment disposition model under the assumption of complete in vivo conversion of artesunate into dihydroartemisinin. Dihydroartemisinin pharmacokinetics was best described by a one-compartment disposition model with first-order elimination. Pregnant women had a 21% higher elimination clearance of dihydroartemisinin, compared to non-pregnant women, resulting in proportionally lower drug exposure. In addition, initial parasitaemia and liver status (alanine aminotransferase) were found to affect the relative bioavailability of artesunate. Conclusions: Results presented here show a substantially lower drug exposure to the antimalarial drug dihydroartemisinin during pregnancy after standard oral treatment of artesunate and mefloquine. This might result in an increased risk of treatment failure and drug resistance development, especially in low transmission settings where relative immunity is lower. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00701961 (19/06/2008).
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- Sofia Birgersson
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 405 30, Sweden
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- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l’Ouest Bobo-Dioulasso, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante´, Unite´ de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro, Nanoro, Burkina Faso
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- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l’Ouest Bobo-Dioulasso, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante´, Unite´ de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro, Nanoro, Burkina Faso
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- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l’Ouest Bobo-Dioulasso, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante´, Unite´ de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro, Nanoro, Burkina Faso
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- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l’Ouest Bobo-Dioulasso, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Department of Food Safety, Quality and Health, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, B-9000, Belgium
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- Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Resarch Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
- Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK
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- Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 405 30, Sweden
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- Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Resarch Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
- Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK
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Birgersson S, Valea I, Tinto H, Traore-Coulibaly M, Toe LC, Hoglund RM, Van Geertruyden JP, Ward SA, D’Alessandro U, Abelö A, Tarning J. Population pharmacokinetics of artesunate and dihydroartemisinin in pregnant and non-pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Burkina Faso: an open label trial. Wellcome Open Res 2019. [DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14849.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background: Malaria during pregnancy is a major health risk for both the mother and the foetus. Pregnancy has been shown to influence the pharmacokinetics of a number of different antimalarial drugs. This might lead to an under-exposure in these patients which could increase the risk of treatment failure and the development of drug resistance. The study aim was to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of artesunate and dihydroartemisinin in pregnant and non-pregnant patients using a population modelling approach. Methods: Twenty-four women in their second and third trimester of pregnancy and twenty-four paired non-pregnant women, all with uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria, were enrolled in this study. Treatment was a fixed-dose combination of oral artesunate and mefloquine once daily for three days. Frequent blood samples were collected and concentration-time data for artesunate and dihydroartemisinin were analysed simultaneously using nonlinear mixed-effects modelling. Results: Artesunate pharmacokinetics was best described by a transit-compartment absorption model followed by a one-compartment disposition model under the assumption of complete in vivo conversion of artesunate into dihydroartemisinin. Dihydroartemisinin pharmacokinetics was best described by a one-compartment disposition model with first-order elimination. Pregnant women had a 21% higher elimination clearance of dihydroartemisinin, compared to non-pregnant women, resulting in proportionally lower drug exposure. In addition, initial parasitaemia and liver status (alanine aminotransferase) were found to affect the relative bioavailability of artesunate. Conclusions: Results presented here show a substantially lower drug exposure to the antimalarial drug dihydroartemisinin during pregnancy after standard oral treatment of artesunate and mefloquine. This might result in an increased risk of treatment failure and drug resistance development, especially in low transmission settings where relative immunity is lower. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00701961 (19/06/2008)
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Sundell J, Bienvenu E, Birgersson S, Äbelö A, Ashton M, Hoffmann KJ. Simultaneous quantification of four first line antitubercular drugs and metabolites in human plasma by hydrophilic interaction chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2019; 1105:129-135. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2018.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Revised: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Birgersson S, Van Toi P, Truong NT, Dung NT, Ashton M, Hien TT, Abelö A, Tarning J. Population pharmacokinetic properties of artemisinin in healthy male Vietnamese volunteers. Malar J 2016; 15:90. [PMID: 26879816 PMCID: PMC4754918 DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1134-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 01/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background
Artemisinin-based combination therapy is recommended as first-line anti-malarial treatment worldwide. A combination of artemisinin with the long acting drug piperaquine has shown high efficacy and tolerability in patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum infections. The aim of this study was to characterize the population pharmacokinetic properties of artemisinin in healthy male Vietnamese volunteers after two different dose sizes, formulations and in a combination with piperaquine. A secondary aim was to compare two different methods for the evaluation of bioequivalence of the formulations. Methods Fifteen subjects received four different dose regimens of a single dose of artemisinin as a conventional formulation (160 and 500 mg) and as a micronized test formulation (160 mg alone and in combination with piperaquine phosphate, 360 mg) with a washout period of 3 weeks between each period (i.e. four-way cross-over). Venous plasma samples were collected frequently up to 12 h after dose in each period. Artemisinin was quantified in plasma using liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. A nonlinear mixed-effects modelling approach was utilized to evaluate the population pharmacokinetic properties of the drug and to investigate the clinical impact of different formulations. Results The plasma concentration–time profiles for artemisinin were adequately described by a transit-absorption model with a one-compartment disposition, in all four sequences simultaneously. The mean oral clearance, volume of distribution and terminal elimination half-life was 417 L/h, 1210 L and 1.93 h, respectively. Influence of formulation, dose and possible interaction of piperaquine was evaluated as categorical covariates in full covariate approaches. No clinically significant differences between formulations were shown which was in accordance with the previous results using a non-compartmental bioequivalence approach. Conclusions This is the first population pharmacokinetic characterization of artemisinin in healthy volunteers. Increasing the dose resulted in a significant increase in the mean transit-time but the micronized formulation or concomitant piperaquine administration did not affect the pharmacokinetic properties of artemisinin. The results from the traditional bioequivalence evaluation were comparable with results obtained from mixed-effects modelling.
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- Sofia Birgersson
- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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- Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Department of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. .,Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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