| Title | Nonlinear Absorption of Methylprednisolone by Absorptive and Secretory transporters. | | Author(s) | Tomita M, Watanabe A, Fujinaga I, Yamakawa T, Hayashi M | | Institution | Department of Drug Absorption and Pharmacokinetics, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0392, Japan. | | Source | Int J Pharm 2009 Oct 30. | | Abstract | The intestinal absorption rate constant of methylprednisolone (MP) evaluated by the loop method increased significantly with increasingly higher concentrations of the drug up to 500muM in a nonlinear fashion but did not increase further at higher concentrations. Mucosal-to-serosal directed permeation of MP across rat jejunal sheets also increased in a nonlinear fashion in a low concentration range (100muM approximately 150muM), followed by a decrease as the concentration further increased further, whereas serosal-to-mucosal directed permeation decreased in a concentration-dependent manner. Vectorial transport of MP across Caco-2 cell monolayers was observed, with greater transport in the basolateral-to-apical direction at 37 degrees C. These observations suggest that MP is taken up in the intestinal epithelial cells by a carrier-mediated transport mechanism. The absorptive and secretory clearance of MP increased and decreased with P-glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitors, respectively. These results strongly suggest that MP is secreted into the intestinal lumen predominantly by P-gp. We conclude that intestinal transport of MP involves P-gp or some other transporter in both the absorptive and secretory directions, and complex nonlinear intestinal absorption characteristics can be ascribed to the existence of multiple transport mechanisms. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 19883743 |
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