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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages 569-575Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2018.08.014
Keywords
Multidrug-resistant protein 1 (mdr1); Sex differences; Efflux Transporter; Gastrointestinal drug absorption; Pre-clinical development; Animal models
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The aim of this study was to explore the influence of food on P-glycoprotein (P-gp) relative expression in both male and female rats, and its effect on intestinal permeation of P-gp substrates (ranitidine and ganciclovir) and a P-gp non-substrate (metformin). The intestine of 12 male and 12 female Wistar rats were excised and segmented into the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon. P-gp extracted from each segment was then determined via Western-blotting. In male rats, the relative P-gp expression decreased significantly after food intake in all segments of the intestine except in the duodenum. The most notable change was demonstrated in the colon where relative expression decreased from 1.75 +/- 0.36 in the fasted-state to 0.31 +/- 0.15 in the fed-state. In female rats, a fundamentally different result was observed. Food ingestion resulted in a significant increase in relative P-gp expression in all regions of the intestine except in the colon. The largest difference was observed in the jejunum of the fed-state female rat intestine where P-gp expression was 1.76 +/- 0.95 which was a six-fold increase from the fasted state at 0.34 +/- 0.13. Intestinal permeation studies in an Ussing chamber showed that both ganciclovir and ranitidine exhibited a sex difference in intestinal permeability in the fasted-state. No sex differences and food effects were observed on metformin small intestine permeability. The permeability results of the three drugs highly supported that there was a sex-related food effect on P-gp function in the small intestine. In summary, the current study reports stark differences between male and female rats at a physiological level relating to P-gp expression and the influence of food.
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