Prediction of in-vivo iontophoretic drug release data from in-vitro experiments-insights from modeling

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2015

Abstract

A strategy was developed to predict in-vivo plasma drug levels from data collected during in-vitro transdermal iontophoretic delivery experiments. The method used the principle of mass conservation and the Nernst-Planck flux equation to describe molecular transport across the skin. Distribution and elimination of the drug in the body followed a one- or two-compartment open model. Analytical expressions for the relaxation constant and plasma drug concentration were developed using Laplace transforms. The steady-state dermal flux was appropriate for predicting drug absorption under in-vivo conditions only when the time constant in the skin was far greater than its value in the blood compartment. A simulation study was conducted to fully assess the performance of estimations based on the equilibrium flux approximation. The findings showed that the normalized integral of squared error decreased exponentially as the ratio of the two time constants (blood/skin) increased. In the case of a single compartment, the error was reduced from 0.15 to 0.016 when the ratio increased from 10 to 100. The methodology was tested using plasma concentrations of a growth-hormone releasing factor in guinea pigs and naloxone in rats.

Identifier

84947592132 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Mathematical Biosciences

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2015.10.011

e-ISSN

18793134

ISSN

00255564

PubMed ID

26519787

First Page

106

Last Page

114

Volume

270

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