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Uptake of doxifluridine by rabbit small intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles
S Kitagawa1, M Hasegawa, S Sato
1Niigata College of Pharmacy, Japan.
Abstract:
Characteristics of the transport of doxifluridine (5'-DFUR) in rabbit small intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles were examined. 5'-DFUR was rapidly incorporated and a linear relation was found between the concentration of 5'-DFUR and its uptake rate in the concentration range tested (0.1-10 mM). The uptake rate increased at an acidic pH, at which 5'-DFUR is present mostly in an undissociated form. However, the uptake rate was not changed either by the extravesicular Na+ concentration or by the inside negative membrane potential. Nucleosides, uridine and adenosine only slightly inhibited the uptake, even at a fifty-fold concentration, and nucleobases, uracil and thymine had no effect. These results suggest the possibility of the major involvement of passive diffusion of the undissocated form of 5'-DFUR in the uptake of the drug through the brush-border membrane at a relatively high concentration.
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