Background: Identification of clinical drug-drug interaction (DDI) risk is an important aspect of drug discovery and development owing to poly-pharmacy in present-day clinical therapy. Drug metabolizing enzymes (DME) plays important role in the efficacy and safety of drug candidates. Hence evaluation of a New Chemical Entity (NCE) as a victim or perpetrator is very crucial for DDI risk mitigation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) plays a central and pivotal role in controlling the pathways involved in the pathobiology of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and other autoimmune disorders. ZYBT1 is a potent, irreversible, specific BTK inhibitor that inhibits the ibrutinib-resistant C481S BTK with nanomolar potency. ZYBT1 is found to be a promising molecule to treat both cancer and RA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSaroglitazar, a PPAR αҮ agonist, is currently undergoing global development for the treatment of NASH and other indications. Saroglitazar showed CYP2C8 inhibition in human liver microsomes (IC: 2.9 μM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZYTP1 is a novel Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase protein inhibitor being developed for cancer indications. The focus of the work was to determine if ZYTP1 had a perpetrator role in the inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes to aid dosing decisions during the clinical development of ZYTP1. ZYTP1 IC for CYP1A2, 2B6, 2C8, 2C9, 2C19, 2D6 and 3A4/5 was determined using human liver microsomes and LC-MS/MS detection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The use of polypharmacy in the present day clinical therapy has made the identification of clinical drug-drug interaction risk an important aspect of drug development process. Although many drugs can be metabolized to sulfoxide and/or sulfone metabolites, seldom is known on the CYP inhibition potential and/or the metabolic fate for such metabolites.
Objective: The key objectives were: a) to evaluate the in vitro CYP inhibition potential of selected parent drugs with sulfoxide/sulfone metabolites; b) to assess the in vitro metabolic fate of the same panel of parent drugs and metabolites.
Pharmacokinetics of voriconazole, an anti-fungal agent, was determined in collagen-induced arthritic (CIA) and healthy DBA/1J mice. CIA was confirmed in DBA/1J mice by clinical scoring and histological analysis. In vivo oral pharmacokinetic study (3 mg/kg) and in vitro stability assessment in liver microsomes were performed in CIA vs.
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