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An Intestine/Liver Microphysiological System for Drug Pharmacokinetic and Toxicological Assessment
Published on: December 3, 2020
Development and validation of a physiology-based model for the prediction of oral absorption in monkeys
Stefan Willmann1, Andrea N Edginton, Jennifer B Dressman
1Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Process Technology/Systems Biology, Building E41, Leverkusen, Germany. Stefan.Willmann@Bayertechnology.com
Purpose:
The development and validation of a physiology-based absorption model for orally administered drugs in monkeys is described.
Materials And Methods:
Physiological parameters affecting intestinal transit and absorption of an orally administered drug in monkeys have been collected from the literature and implemented in a physiological model for passive absorption previously developed for rats and humans. Predicted fractions of dose absorbed have been compared to experimentally observed values for a set of N = 37 chemically diverse drugs. A sensitivity analysis was performed to assess the influence of various physiological model parameters on the predicted fraction dose absorbed.
Results:
A Pearson's correlation coefficient of 0.94 (95% confidence interval: [0.88, 0.97]; p < 0.0001) between the predicted and observed fraction dose absorbed in monkeys was obtained for compounds undergoing non-solubility limited passive absorption (N = 29). The sensitivity analysis revealed that the predictions of fractions dose absorbed in monkeys are very sensitive with respect to inter-individual variations of the small intestinal transit time.
Conclusions:
The model is well suited to predict the fraction dose absorbed of passively absorbed compounds after oral administration and to assess the influence of inter-individual physiological variability on oral absorption in monkeys.
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