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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
Physicochemical effects caused by intestinal fluids on drugs in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract can be a contributing factor in food induced changes in bioavailability. To identify physicochemical properties of gemfibrozil that may be altered by endogenous and dietary lipids, in vitro studies were conducted in model systems approximating the conditions of the upper GI tract. Factors examined include pH, solubility in bile salt micellar and mixed micellar systems with monoolein and lecithin, effect of fatty acids, dissolution, wetting, and partitioning in triglyceride dispersions. Gemfibrozil was solubilized by glycocholate solutions in a manner typical of other lipids and a three-fold increase in solubility was observed over physiologic concentrations. Addition of increasing amounts of swelling amphiphiles (monoolein, lecithin) to glycocholate solutions resulted in a linear increase in solubility. Fatty acid salts had no effect on gemfibrozil solubilization by micellar solutions. The dissolution rate of gemfibrozil increased slightly in the presence of glycocholate relative to buffer, however, addition of monoolein increased the dissolution rate three-fold. In triglyceride dispersions of mixtures of lipids, monoolein increased the fraction of drug in the micellar subphase, whereas fatty acid reduced it. The results indicate that in the conditions of the fed state gemfibrozil solubility and dissolution could be substantially increased relative to the conditions in the fasted state.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0724-8741
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1755-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2000-12-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
The effects of bile salts and lipids on the physicochemical behavior of gemfibrozil.
pubmed:affiliation
Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, Division of Warner-Lambert Company, Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article