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ArticlePharmaceutical research2016

Assessment of Age-Related Changes in Pediatric Gastrointestinal Solubility.

Anil R Maharaj, Andrea N Edginton, Nikoletta Fotaki

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Article in Pharmaceutical research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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Anil R MaharajSchool of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Andrea N EdgintonSchool of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Nikoletta FotakiDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. n.fotaki@bath.ac.uk.

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purposeCompound solubility serves as a surrogate indicator of oral biopharmaceutical performance. Between infancy and adulthood, marked compositional changes in gastrointestinal (GI) fluids occur. This study serves to assess how developmental changes in GI fluid composition affects compound solubility.

methodsSolubility assessments were conducted in vitro using biorelevant media reflective of age-specific pediatric cohorts (i.e., neonates and infants). Previously published adult media (i.e., FaSSGF, FeSSGF, FaSSIF.v2, and FeSSIF.v2) were employed as references for pediatric media development. Investigations assessing age-specific changes in GI fluid parameters (i.e., pepsin, bile acids, pH, osmolality, etc.) were collected from the literature and served to define the composition of neonatal and infant media. Solubility assessments at 37 °C were conducted for seven BCS Class II compounds within the developed pediatric and reference adult media.

resultsFor six of the seven compounds investigated, solubility fell outside an 80-125% range from adult values in at least one of the developed pediatric media. This result indicates a potential for age-related alterations in oral drug performance, especially for compounds whose absorption is delimited by solubility (i.e., BCS Class II).

conclusionDevelopmental changes in GI fluid composition can result in relevant discrepancies in luminal compound solubility between children and adults.

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AdolescentAdultAgingAlgorithmsBile Acids and SaltsBiopharmaceuticsBody FluidsChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesGastrointestinal TractHumansInfantInfant, NewbornIntestinal AbsorptionOsmolar ConcentrationBile Acids and SaltsPharmaceutical Preparationsbiopharmaceuticsbiorelevantpediatricsolubility

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