Journal
ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS
Volume 124, Issue -, Pages 50-63Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2017.07.019
Keywords
Mucus; Cell-based models; Mucosal model; Epithelium model; Permeation; Absorption
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- Fonds Leon Fredericq
- European Union
- FEDER-Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional funds through the COMPETE - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), Portugal
- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia/Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007274]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal [SFRH/BPD/92934/2013]
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The increasing interest in developing tools to predict drug absorption through mucosal surfaces is fostering the establishment of epithelial cell-based models. Cell-based in vitro techniques for drug permeability assessment are less laborious, cheaper and address the concerns of using laboratory animals. Simultaneously, in vitro barrier models that thoroughly simulate human epithelia or mucosae may provide useful data to speed up the entrance of new drugs and new drug products into the clinics. Nevertheless, standard cell-based in vitro models that intend to reproduce epithelial surfaces often discard the role of mucus in influencing drug permeation/absorption. Biomimetic models of mucosae in which mucus production has been considered may not be able to fully reproduce the amount and architecture of mucus, resulting in biased characterization of permeability/absorption. In these cases, artificial mucus may be used to supplement cell-based models but still proper identification and quantification are required. In this review, considerations regarding the relevance of mucus in the development of cell based epithelial and mucosal models mimicking the gastro-intestinal tract, the cervico-vaginal tract and the respiratory tract, and the impact of mucus on the permeability mechanisms are addressed. From simple epithelial monolayers to more complex 3D structures, the impact of the presence of mucus for the extrapolation to the in vivo scenario is critically analyzed. Finally, an overview is provided on several techniques and methods to characterize the mucus layer over cell-based barriers, in order to intimately reproduce human mucosal layer and thereby, improve in vitro/in vivo correlation. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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