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RECENT PATENTS ON ANTI-CANCER DRUG DISCOVERY
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 177-186Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1574892814666190212164356
Keywords
ADME; CPT-11; neoplasia; pharmacokinetics; SN-38; solid tumors; therapeutic index; whole body-physiology based pharmacokinetics (WB-PBPK)
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- National Key Research Program of China [2016YPC1201802]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, China [2015A020214012, 2015B020214005]
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Background: Computational tools are becoming more and more powerful and comprehensive as compared to past decades in facilitating pharmaceutical, pharmacological and clinical practice. Anticancer agents are used either as monotherapy or in combination therapy to treat malignant conditions of the body. A single antineoplastic agent may be used in different types of malignancies at different doses according to the stage of the disease. Objective: To study the behavior of CPT-11 (Irinotecan) and its metabolite SN-38 in tumor tissue compartment through the Whole Body-Physiologically Pharmacokinetics (WB-PBPK) and to determine the activity of metabolic enzymes and transporters participating in the disposition of CPT-11 and SN-38 working in their physiological environment inside the human body. Methods: Whole body PBPK approach is used to determine the activity of different metabolic enzymes and transporters involved in the disposition of CPT-11 and its active metabolite, SN-38. The concentrations and pharmacokinetic parameters of the parent compound and its metabolite administered at clinically applicable dose via the intravenous route in the tumor tissue are predicted using this approach. Results: The activity rate constants of metabolic enzymes and transporters of CPT-11 are derived at their natural anatomic locations. Concentration-time curves of CPT-11 and SN-38 with their 5th to 95th percentage range are achieved at the tumor tissue level. Mean tumor tissue pharmacokinetics of both compounds are determined in a population of 100 individuals. Conclusion: Tumor tissue concentration-time curves of CPT-11 and SN-38 can be determined via PBPK modeling. Rate constants of enzymes and transporters can be shown for healthy and tumor bearing individuals. The results will throw light on the effective concentration of active compound at its target tissue at the clinically applied IV dose.
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