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In Vitro and In Vivo Approaches to Determine Intestinal Epithelial Cell Permeability
Published on: October 19, 2018
Study on the intestinal permeability of lamivudine using Caco-2 cells monolayer and Single-pass intestinal perfusion
Weiyin Huang1, Shuang Chen1, Lin Sun2
1School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China.
Background:
The aim of this work is to investigate the intestinal permeability of lamivudine and explore its absorption mechanism.
Method:
Caco-2 cells monolayer and single-pass intestinal perfusion (SPIP) were selected for the investigation of lamivudine under different conditions, such as different concentration, absorption time, bidirectional transportation, and transportation with efflux transporters inhibitor. The concentration of lamivudine both in Caco-2 cells monolayer samples and SPIP samples was detected by HPLC-UV. Then the permeability parameters were calculated.
Results:
The established HPLC-UV method reach the requirements for detection. There is no statistically difference between absorption parameters of lamivudine both in Caco-2 cells monolayer and SPIP (P > 0.05) under different dose groups. After transportation with efflux transporters inhibitor, the efflux rate of lamivudine in three dose groups was significantly decreased from 2.67, 2.59 and 2.59 to 1.78, 1.61, and 1.81 respectively. Lamivudine exhibits an absorption mechanism of passive diffusion.
Conclusion:
The absorption of lamivudine may be related to efflux transporters. In addition, lamivudine is a moderate-permeability drug in Biopharmaceutics Classification System.
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