Lecture 3: Formulation and API Flashcards

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Drug product performance

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-ability of drug to elicit therapeutic response and stay in a safe range during dosage
-no toxic response
-described by pharmacokinetics and parmacodynamic processes

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Goal of Formulations

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-transfer a new therapeutic compound
-develop reproducible dosage form

-release from dosage form must balance the way body processes medicine

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3
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reproducible

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-refers to each dosage form containing same amount of drug
-refers to same performance in the body

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4
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Drug blood level vs time graph

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  1. Absorption: increase up to Cmax, Tmax (2hoursish)
  2. slow decrease through distribution, metabolism, excretion
    AUC= area under the curve
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5
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Disposition phase of drug

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distribution, metabolism, excretion

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Elimination phase of drug

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metabolism and excretion

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7
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Dosage form controls

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-absorption, dissolution, degradation in intestinal tract

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8
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Body controls

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metabolism, distribution, excretion

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9
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Drug upon Administration

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Intestinal tract (dosage form controls) –> portal vein –> liver (metabolism) –> blood –> peripheral tissues (distribution), perfused tissue, and urine (excretion)

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10
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Absorption rate

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-MUST BALANCE DISPOSITION
-begins declining as disposition starts to increase
-Kabs

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11
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Kabs defined by

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-drug properties
-excipient/composition of formulation
-physiological barriers between GI tract and systemic circulation

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12
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Margin of Safety

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-goal of dosage form design
-area between pharma and toxicology

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13
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Drug discovery: Assessing translation

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-finding chemistries that can mitigate disease
-driven by receptor binding
-druggability and developability

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14
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Druggability

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-binding and “drug-like” properties favorable for product translation

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15
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Developability

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assessment to characterize if new molecules can be formulated

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16
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Druggability stages

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  1. discovery
  2. Assess ability to bind to drug target
  3. in vivo models used to assess
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17
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Developability stages

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  1. refers drug performance
  2. incorporates factors like solubility/dissolution
  3. incorporates formulation factors related to ADME/T
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18
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Druggable genome

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-genes that encode disease related proteins that can be modded by drugs
-includes differentially regulated drugs
-vary in intensity upon comparative analysis

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19
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Healthy vs sick gene expression

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-this contrast can yield genes that may serve as targets for drug design

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20
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Druggable targets

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mostly disease genes

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21
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Druggable gene identification

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via pharmacogenomic methods

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22
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Druggable proteins

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-proteins that can bind drug-like compounds with affinity < 10mM
-compound must be able to modulate the protein

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23
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Druggable proteins identification

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-via genes of disease-related proteins that be modulated by drugs

24
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Druggable pharmacophore

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-druggable genes converted to proteins via in silico methods

25
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Druggable pharmacophore identification

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binding cavities

26
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Pharmaceutically tractable genome

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-genes that encode proteins that can be targeted by smaller compounds, antibodies, and therapeutic proteins for pharmaceutical use

27
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Drug candidate to tractable gene + protein associated with disease

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= mitigated disease yay

28
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Pharmacophore drug design

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-proteins associated with disease modeled to find binding pockets
-drugs fitting these pockets generated
-chemicals can be made to optimize drug binding

29
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Pharmacophore drug design applications

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-virtual screening
-de novo design

30
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New chemical entities (NCE)

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-generated to fit a pharmacophore
-characterization to assess drugability

31
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Good druggable entities

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-do not equal a good potential to be translated

32
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ADMET

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T is toxicity

33
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Developability

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-centers on evaluating properties that will be used to generate a working formulation

34
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Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

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-main indicators of safe and efficacious use
-do NOT vary across patient populations

35
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Goal of Drug Delivery

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Drug + vehicle
-vehicle has selected properties to overcome barriers and transport it from administration site

36
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Formulation design considerations (performance factors)

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-physicochemical properties of the drug
-properties and composition of formulation
-biological factors (ADMET)
-MUST be properly balanced

37
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Performance

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-drug response and therapeutic range
-lack toxicity
-function of the drug

38
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Physicochemical Properties of the Drug
that Affects Absorption

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-solubility
-drug stability in solution
-lipophilicity
-molecular size/shape
-pKa of groups
-physical state of drug

-SLIDE 31

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Solubility depends on

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-molecular structure
-physical state
-composition of solvents
-measurement methods

40
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solid physical state

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amorphous, crystalline, polymorphic

41
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liquid physical state

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predissolved in solvent

42
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Composition of solvents

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-types
-cosolvent %s
-solution components (salts, ions, lipids, ets)
-pH and temp

43
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Measurement Methods

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-equilibration time
-detection method

44
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Partition Coefficient

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-ratio of concentrations in two immiscible solvents (octanol and water)
-Ko/w = Coct / Cwater

45
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pH-partition hypothesis

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-permeability transport depends on the fraction of unionized drug at intestinal pH
-for drugs absorbed by passive, transcellular mechanism

46
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solubility and partition coefficient

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-as Ko/w increases, solubility decreases
-formula SLIDE 34

47
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pH and pKa

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-important in determining absorption of weak acids vs weak bases

48
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Cell membrane structure

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-lipid bilayer with lipid and protein molecules

49
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protein to lipid ratio in the GI tract

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1:7 ??
-octanol:water partitioning not accurate predictor of physiological conditions

50
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Organelle pH

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-differences in extracellular and intracellular values affect transport
-can trap molecule in a cell

51
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Overcome effects of pH partition hypothesis

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-functionalize the compound-change pKa
-prodrug strategy
-salt selection
-drug delivery system

52
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prodrug strategy

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-modifiy charged moiety
-modify molecule to be recognized by transporter

53
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Salt selection

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-ion pairing effective in improving permeation
-form can alter unionized fraction

54
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Polar Surface Area (PSA)

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-solvent accessible surface area (SASA) provided by O, N, H
-good estimate of H bond potential
-does NOT account for charges

55
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Poor absorption/permeation when:

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-more than 5 H bond donors
-more than 10 H bond acceptors
-MW over 500
-MlogP over 4.15 (ClogP over 5)