Application of a novel dissolution medium with lipids for in vitro simulation of the postprandial gastric content

Felicijan, Tjaša (author), Rakoše, Iva (author), Prislan, Manca (author), Locatelli, Igor (author), Bogataj, Marija (author), Trontelj, Jurij (author)

Food can change various physiological parameters along the gastrointestinal tract, potentially impacting postprandial drug absorption. It is thus important to consider different in vivo conditions during in vitro studies. Therefore, a novel dissolution medium simulating variable postprandial pH values and lipid concentrations was developed and used in this study. Additionally, by establishing and validating a suitable analytical method, the effects of these parameters on the dissolution of a model drug, cinnarizine, and on its distribution between the lipid and aqueous phases of the medium were studied. Both parameters, pH value and lipid concentration, were shown to influence cinnarizine behavior in the in vitro dissolution studies. The amount of dissolved drug decreased with increasing pH due to cinnarizine’s decreasing solubility. At pH values 5 and 7, the higher concentration of lipids in the medium increased drug dissolution, and most of the dissolved drug was distributed in the lipid phase. In all media with a lower pH of 3, dissolution was fast and complete, with a significant amount of drug distributed in the lipid phase. These results are in accordance with the in vivo observed positive food effect on cinnarizine bioavailability described in the literature. The developed medium, with its ability to easily adjust the pH level and lipid concentration, thus offers a promising tool for assessing the effect of co-ingested food on the dissolution kinetics of poorly soluble drugs.

• Language: English
• Keywords: fed-state medium, dissolution, SMOFlipid$^®$, cinnarizine, HPLC analysis
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FFA - Faculty of Pharmacy
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 16, iss. 8, art. 1040
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-161043-70c21a22-8736-b676-19aa-b62e9db35e6b
• UDC: 544.351.3:615
• ISSN on article: 1999-4923
• DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics16081040
• COBISS.SI-ID: 204238339
• Publication date in RUL: 06.09.2024

FELICIJAN, Tjaša, RAKOŠE, Iva, PRISLAN, Manca, LOCATELLI, Igor, BOGATAJ, Marija and TRONTELJ, Jurij, 2024, Application of a novel dissolution medium with lipids for in vitro simulation of the postprandial gastric content. Pharmaceutics [online]. 2024. Vol. 16, no. 8,  1040. [Accessed 8 April 2025]. DOI 10.3390/pharmaceutics16081040. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=161043

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Pharmaceutics
• Shortened title: Pharmaceutics
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1999-4923
• COBISS.SI-ID: 517949977

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: medij napolnjenega stanja, raztapljanje, SMOFlipid$^®$, cinarizin, HPLC analiza, topnost, zdravila

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P1-0189
• Name: Farmacevtska tehnologija: od dostavnih sistemov učinkovin do terapijskih izidov zdravil pri otrocih in starostnikih