Journal
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 943-948Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11095-010-0292-6
Keywords
absorption; drug design; drug-like properties; inhalation; Lipinski's Rule of Five; ophthalmic; physicochemical properties; predictive drug delivery; pulmonary; tissue permeability; transdermal
Funding
- National Institutes of Health
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The Rule of Five predicts suitability of drug candidates, but was developed primarily using orally administered drugs. Here, we test whether the Rule of Five predicts drugs for delivery via non-oral routes, specifically ophthalmic, inhalation and transdermal. We assessed 111 drugs approved by FDA for those routes of administration and found that > 98% of current non-oral drugs have physicochemical properties within the limits of the Rule of Five. However, given the inherent bias in the dataset, this analysis was not able to assess whether drugs with properties outside those limits are poor candidates. Indeed, further analysis indicates that drugs well outside the Rule of Five limits, including hydrophilic macromolecules, can be delivered by inhalation. In contrast, drugs currently administered across skin fall within more stringent limits than predicted by the Rule of Five, but new transdermal delivery technologies may make these constraints obsolete by dramatically increasing skin permeability. The Rule of Five does appear to apply well to ophthalmic delivery. We conclude that although current non-oral drugs mostly have physicochemical properties within the Rule of Five thresholds, the Rule of Five should not be used to predict non-oral drug candidates, especially for inhalation and transdermal routes.
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