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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 220, Issue 1-2, Pages 53-62Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5173(01)00646-9
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6-fluoroquinolones; partition coefficients; minimal inhibitory concentration; log P
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Partitioning of a fluoroquinolone antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, and its N-piperazinyl alkyl derivatives, between octanol or Escherichia toll lipid membrane extract and aqueous buffer pH 7.4, was studied. The experimental partition coefficients (P-exp) were corrected at this pH using an expression that includes the microconstant values of each compound. The relationship between the corrected partition coefficients expressed as log P (thermodynamic partition coefficient) and the diffusion through the lipid bilayers ('hydrophobic pathway') of entry has been considered here. In this work, we have explored the possibility of using our model to provide physicochemical evidences to support such a via. The correlation between log P values and antibacterial activities (expressed as minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) values) of the homologous series of antibiotics against different bacteria were studied. A parabolic behaviour was observed which evidenced that the only increase in lipophilicity does not result in an enhanced antimicrobial activity for the homologous family studied. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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