2 ADME overview Flashcards

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Absorption

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Drugs are broken down into single molecules to get absorbed

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Absorption - Lipinski’s rule of 5.

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Oral absorption is likely to be poor for a molecule if (Adv. Drug Del. Rev. 23:3 (1997)):
•there are more than 5 H-bond donors (sum of NH and OH groups) •there are more than 10 H-bond acceptors (sum of N and O atoms) •the molecular weight is >500
•the calculated log P (cLogP) is >5

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What does absorption require..

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• Absorption requires solubilization!
– ionisation (pH), hydrophilicity, molecular shape
» polar drugs usually more soluble
– solid drugs need to dissolve before they can be absorbed – rate of dissolution can limit rate of absorption

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Drug absorption routes

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Pinocytosis (membrane folds in upon itself and captures the drug and incorporates it into the cell)

Paracellular (between different cells)

Lipid diffusion (diffuse across lipid, drug must be hydrophobic

Aquaporin (uncharged, taking up water, very small channel, drugs must be small)

Carrier (primarily proteins with another biological property, can be active or passive, can be saturated, uptake or efflux promote or reduce absorption

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5
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Paracellular diffusion

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• Between cells
• Usually only small (Mr < 350) polar drugs
• Some membranes are more permeable than others tight junctions
– eg nasal epithelium more “leaky” than GI tract epithelium – eg very tight junctions in blood brain barrier

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Passive diffusion through lipid

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Permeability is dependent upon
– solubility in membrane lipid (estimated by oil:water partition coefficient)
» lipophilicity
» charge - ionization is pH dependant
– mobility in membrane lipid (diffusion coefficient)
– molecular mass (reduces permeability)

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7
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Lipophilicity controls..

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passive diffusion

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Passive diffusion through lipid - Fick’s law

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Flux across membrane
= (C1-C2) x Area x Permeability / thickness

Flux across membrane means how many drug molecules are moving across the membrane per unit time

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9
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Conflict

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  • Polar promotes absorption as it makes drugs more soluble
  • Lipophilicity promotes absorption as it makes drugs more permeable.

Absorption is controlled by both lipophilicity and polarity.

Have to balance lipophilicity and polarity
Polar enough to pass through water and lipophilic to pass through membrane

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10
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What is a polar drug

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charge unevenly distributed

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Factors that determine the max amount of drug that can be absorbed

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  • Solubility
  • Rate constanst for absortption across the membrane
  • Time it takes for the drug to move through the small intestine
  • Volume of small intestine
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12
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pH trapping

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uncharged molecules more likely to cross membrane.

Drugs have functional groups which have a certain pka, this determines the ph at which they get protonated. Charge on the molecule depends on pH and pKa

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13
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Carrier-mediated transport

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– active or passive (“facilitated diffusion”)
– can be saturated!
– Important for drug movement across » Blood-brain barrier
» Gastro-intestinal tract
» Renal tubule
» Biliary tract » Placenta
– Uptake and efflux - promote or reduce absorption
» Efflux pumps eg P-glycoprotein (encoded by MDR1 gene) in GI membrane inhibit absorption by returning drug to GI tract

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14
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Aquaporins

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  • Transport water and small uncharged solutes across membrane
  • Responsible for reabsorption of water from renal tubule -Discovery →Nobel prize 2003
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15
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Factors affecting gastrointestinal absorption

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Anatomical factors:

  • stomach has small surface area (~1M2)
  • small intestine has large surface area, microvilli (~ 200 M2), higher permeability, good blood supply,
  • large intestine is the intermediate

pH:
– varies along GI tract
– affects charge, R-CO2H ↔ R-CO2-
– can cause drug hydrolysis in stomach

Permeability and solubility:
– for polar drug, a prodrug may render more lipohilic and increase absorption
– transit time may become limiting: small intestine (~4 hrs), large intestine (10-36 hrs)

Binding to other material in GI tract:
– other drugs eg cholestyramine
– metal ions EG Tetracycline and M2+

Gastric emptying:
– emptying of stomach speeds passage to small intestine and hence favours absorption
– food delays emptying – esp. fat
– exception – poorly soluble drugs – delay provides more time for dissolution

Metabolism:
– by gut flora, in gut wall Cytochrome P450 and Monoamine oxidase
– in liver – first pass metabolism
– metabolism may be inhibited by food –
» eg Grapefruit juice inhibits Cyp3A4

Efflux pumps in membrane:
– P glycoprotein can prevent absorption of drug into circulation

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16
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Subcutaneous

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Surface under the skin

17
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Factors affecting absorption from intramuscular and subcutaenous sites

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  • capillary endothelium more permeable than GI epithelium – easier transit to blood or lymphatic system
  • local blood flow is major factor
18
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Distribution

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The reversible transfer of a drug between different tissues in the body

Many drugs exert their effect in interstitial water or intracellular water

19
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interstitial water

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surrounds tissue cells

20
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intracellular water

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inside cells

21
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blood brain barrier

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Blood-brain barrier prevents water-soluble drugs from reaching the CNS

22
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What is rate of distribution limited by?

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Limited by either perfusion or permeability

• Perfusion limited
– membranes present little permeability barrier
– particularly lipophilic drugs
– blood flow limits drug distribution to tissue
– drugs accumulation favoured in tissue with better blood supply

• Permeability limited
– membranes present significant permeability barrier
– eg polar drugs affected by charge, pH
– eg antibodies
– blood flow is not limiting
23
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Perfusion

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Flow of blood through the body’s blood vessels

24
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Distribution: protein binding

• Drugs may bind to:

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– blood cells
– tissue proteins
– plasma protein
» eg serum albumin, (mostly acidic drugs)
» α1-acid glycoprotein (mostly basic drugs)
» lipoproteins
» May contribute to retention in plasma – reduced distribution

– “Fraction unbound” (of the drug) is the most important factor: » Only unbound drug exerts a pharmacodynamic effect
» Only unbound drug moves between compartments
– BUT : Rate of dissociation determines significance
» very slow/irreversible dissociation equivalent to elimination
» rapidly dissociation – drug is still “available” & protein acts as a “carrier”

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Metabolism: overview

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• Metabolism
– conversion of drug to another chemical
» usually more readily excreted
» often less pharmacologically active (but not always)
• Major site of metabolism – liver
• Phase I
– conversion to more reactive form to allow conjugation
• Phase II
– conjugation with another biomolecule to increase solubility to allow excretion
• Some drugs may be excreted unchanged
• Some drugs may not undergo phase II

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Metabolism: phase 1

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• Oxidation & Reduction

• 95% reactions by cytochrome P450 “Cyp” – contain Haem &amp; Fe2+/3+
– several isoforms of Cyp: 3A4, 2D6
– each isoform:
» may oxidize several different drugs 
» may have overlapping specificities

• Non Cyp mediated
– Eg alcohol dehydrogenase, mono-amine oxidase

27
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Cytochrome P450 cycle

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draw

28
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Metabolism: phase II

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  • Conjugation with hydrophilic moiety
  • eg glucoronic acid, glutathione, sulfate

UDP- glucoronide + Drug –>(UDP glucoronyl transferase) Drug-glucoronide

Glutathione + Drug –>
(Glutathione transferase) Drug-glutathione

After conjugation more soluble, less reactive and less harmful

29
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Hydrophilic moiety

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has strong affinity for water

30
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Excretion

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the irreversible removal of drug from the body
• Reminder: Elimination = metabolism + excretion
• Routes of excretion
– Urine
– Bile (to faeces; possibility of enterohepatic recirculation)
– Sweat
– Exhaled breath
– Milk

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Processes involved in renal excretion

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  1. Filtration in Renal corpuscle
    – not if Mr> 20,000 not if bound to plasma protein
    – GFR ~120 ml min-1
    – Measure with creatine or inulin (no tubular secretion or reabsoprtion
2. Active secretion in the tubule
– Active transport
– “non-specific” - transporters for anions and cations
– saturable
– free not plasma protein bound drug
3. Reabsorption in the tubule
– Physiologically – for recovery of glucose, vitamins etc - active transport
– drugs – generally passive diffusion:
– pH dependant – charge!
– lipophilic drugs – good reabsorption
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Renal Excretion equation

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• Polar drugs may be secreted into urine unchanged
• Lipophilic drugs undergo phase I and II metabolism to render them more polar and hence more soluble
– facilitates secretion (increased free[drug], reduced serum protein binding)
– reduces tubular reabsorption

Renal excretion = Glomerular + filtration
Tubular - secretion -
Tubular reabsorption