Zhengyin Yan, Li Ma, Nicky Hwang, Julie Huang, Jane R Kenny, Cornelis E C A Hop
Extrapolating in vivo hepatic clearance from in vitro uptake data is a known challenge, especially for OATP substrates, and the well-stirred model (WSM) commonly yields systematic under-predictions for those anionic drugs hypothetically due to "albumin-mediated hepatic drug uptake". In the present study, we demonstrate that the WSM incorporating the dynamic free fraction ( f D ), a measure of drug protein binding affinity, performs reasonably well in predicting hepatic clearance of OATP substrates. For a selection of anionic drugs including atorvastatin, fluvastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, pitavastatin, cerivastatin, and repaglinide, this dynamic well-stirred model (dWSM) correctly predicts hepatic plasma clearance within 2-fold error for six out of seven OATP substrates examined...
April 11, 2024: Drug Metabolism and Disposition: the Biological Fate of Chemicals