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Ho-Pi Lin1, Dajun Sun1, Xinyuan Zhang1
1Office of Research and Standards, Office of Generic Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993.
Abstract:
A Food and Drug Administration-approved generic oral product of venlafaxine hydrochloride (HCl) extended-release (ER) tablets has used a release mechanism based on an openable matrix, which is different from the push-pull osmotic pump system of its reference-listed drug. In an extreme case, a delay in the bursting of the openable matrix may be considered a product failure mode that alters the intended profile of systemic exposure. A physiologically based pharmacokinetic absorption model was established and verified to simulate the pharmacokinetic profiles after a single-dose oral administration of ER venlafaxine HCl tablets based on an osmotic pump or openable matrix design. This model adequately predicted the observed human mean pharmacokinetic metrics with <20% difference between the predicted and observed data. Based on the modeling and simulation results, Cmax and AUCt of the venlafaxine openable matrix tablets were entirely within the bioequivalence acceptance limits (i.e., 80%-125%) when the lag time varied from 0 to 4 h and using drug-release profiles under most dissolution conditions. The results indicated that a bioinequivalence risk is minimal for a delayed onset of drug release from the approved generic venlafaxine HCl ER tablets with an openable matrix design, supporting its substitutability to the reference product.
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