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  • 1
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract: To assess the drug transport across the blood-brain barrier (BBB), we compared the maximal brain extraction values at time 0 [E(0) values] obtained using either in vitro or in vivo methods. The in vitro BBB model consisted of a coculture of brain capillary endothelial cells growing on one side of a filter and astrocytes on the other. The in vivo model used intracarotid injection in anesthetized rats. Eleven compounds were tested. They were selected because they exhibit quantitatively different brain extraction rates: very low for inulin and sucrose, low for oxicam-related nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and diclofenac, and high for propranolol and diazepam. As these compounds are apparently transferred by a passive diffusion mechanism, two others, glucose and leucine, were added that cross the BBB by a known carrier-mediated process. The in vivo and in vitro E(0) values showed a strong correlation as indicated by the Spearman's correlation coefficient (r= 0.88, p 〈 0.01). The relative ease with which such cocultures can be produced in large quantities could facilitate the screening of new centrally acting drugs.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1573-904X
    Keywords: blood-brain barrier ; drug brain transfer ; in vivo brain extraction ; plasma protein binding ; oxicams
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Purpose. The objective of this work was to assess the influence of binding to plasma proteins and to serum on the brain extraction of four antiinflammatory oxicams. Methods. The brain extraction of isoxicam, tenoxicam, meloxicam and piroxicam was investigated in rats using the carotid injection technique. Blood protein binding parameters were determined by equilibrium dialysis using human serum, human serum albumin (HSA) and alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AAG) solutions at various concentrations. Results. All oxicams had low values of brain extraction, between 19% and 39% when dissolved in serum, i.e. under physiological conditions. Brain efflux rate constants calculated from the wash-out curves were the same in the absence or presence of serum. Brain efflux was inversely related to the polarity of the oxicams, such that the higher their H-bonding capacity, the lower their brain efflux. The free dialyzable drug fraction was inversely related to protein concentration. However, rat brain extraction was always higher than expected from in vitro measurements of the dialyzable fraction. Conclusions. Except for piroxicam whose brain extraction was partially decreased in the presence of proteins, the serum unbound and initially bound fractions of oxicams both seem available for transfer into the brain. Modest affinities for AAG rule out any related effect. More surprising is the apparent lack of effect on brain transfer of the high-affinity binding to HSA and serum. The enhanced brain uptake of meloxicam in the presence of AAG could be a result of interactions between this globular protein and the endothelial wall.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: A number of natural polyphenols (chlorogenic acid (9), cordigol (11), cordigone (12), danthrone (1), 1,5-dihydroxy-3-methoxyxanthone (2), eriosematin (7), flemichin D (8), frutinone A (6), mangiferin (4), quercetin (5), 1,3,6,7-tetrahydroxyxanthone (3) and verbascoside (10)) were investigated for their redox properties using cyclic voltammetry. The antioxidant properties of these compounds were also examined in two models, namely lipid peroxidation in rat synaptosomes and AAPH-mediated oxidation of serum albumin. Compounds with a catechol group (9, 4, 5, 3 and 10) were oxidized below 0.4 V and inhibited lipid peroxidation with IC50 values between 2 and 8 μM. Compounds having one or more isolated phenolic groups and showing an oxidation potential between 0.45 and 0.8 V (11, 12 and 8) inhibited lipid peroxidation with IC50 between 7 and 9 μM, except 2 (0.45 V), danthrone (0.96 V) and eriosematin which showed no or modest antioxidant activity. Some of the investigated compounds also protected albumin from oxidation, but no structure-activity relationship was apparent, suggesting that other factors beside redox potential influence this activity.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Using the five therapeutic oxicams 1-5, we showed that isosteric replacements result in remarkable changes in the physicochemical and structural properties of congeners. Thus, the acidity of the phenolic OH group is relatively higher in the oxicams containing a pyridinyl moiety, i.e. in piroxicam (1), tenoxicam (2), and lornoxicam, (3), due to their zwitterionic nature. This consequently influences their lipophilicity profile at different ionization states. Furthermore, partitioning behaviour in octan-l-ol/H2O and heptane/H2O systems suggests an internal H-bond between the enolic OH and the amide C=O group. The anionic oxicams readily partition into the octanol phase at pH 7.4 and not at all into the heptane phase. Only the partition coefficients of oxicams measured in the heptane/H2O system, but not in the octanol/H2O system, correlate with their transfer across the blood-brain barrier. This implies that only the neutral form of oxicams crosses the blood-brain barrier.
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