Concentrations of voriconazole in healthy and inflamed lung in rats
Christian Joukhadar1, Christiane Thallinger, Wolfgang Pöppl
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. christian.joukhadar@jp-medical-research.com
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|April 1, 2009
Abstract:
By utilizing the microdialysis technique, we investigated the pharmacokinetic profile of voriconazole in the interstitium of the lungs and skeletal muscle tissue of rats after a single intravenous dose under healthy and inflammatory conditions. As expected, voriconazole penetrated excellently into the interstitium of tissues, and its levels were descriptively almost identical to free concentration-versus-time profiles in plasma.


