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DRUG METABOLISM AND PHARMACOKINETICS
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 108-113Publisher
JAPANESE SOC STUDY XENOBIOTICS
DOI: 10.2133/dmpk.24.108
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hydrocotarnine; oxycodone; cytochrome P450; P-glycoprotein; drug interaction
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
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The injectable form of oxycodone contains hydrocotarnine that is supposed to potentiate the analgesic effect of oxycodone with unknown mechanism(s). In this study, the effects of hydrocotarnine on the cytochrome P450 (CYP) and P-glycoprotein (P-gp) were investigated. Hydrocotarnine did not induce a significant change in the metabolic activities of CYP2C9, 2C19, and 2E1 in an in vitro study using human CYP recombinants. Although weak inhibitory effects were observed on CYP3A4 and 2D6, these interactions did not seem to be clinically relevant. Hydrocotarnine also did not cause a significant change in the ATPase activity of human P-gp membranes, suggesting that it is not an inhibitor of P-gp. Furthermore, mice were intraperitoneally injected with hydrocotarnine for 14 days and the mRNA levels of major CYP isozymes and P-gp in the liver and small intestine were determined by real-time RT-PCR. As a result, none of the mRNAs investigated showed a significant change in their levels by hydrocotarnine treatment. In conclusion, it is unlikely that the potentiation of oxycodone effect by hydrocotarnine involves its effect on CYP and P-gp. The findings also demonstrate that hydrocotarnine is unlikely to cause drug interactions via CYP or P-gp.
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