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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of Clozapine in Concomitant Use of Radix Rehmanniae, Fructus Schisandrae, Radix Bupleuri, or Fructus Gardeniae in Rats.

Dan-Dan Tian, Wei Wang, Hua-Ning Wang, Stephen Cho Wing Sze, Zhang-Jin Zhang

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Dan-Dan TianSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. tiandd86@hotmail.com.
Wei WangSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. wwei0825@gmail.com.
Hua-Ning WangDepartment of Psychiatry, the fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, Shaanxi, China. xskzhu@fmmu.edu.cn.
Stephen Cho Wing SzeSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. stephens@hku.hk.
Zhang-Jin ZhangSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. zhangzj@hku.hk.
Chinese University of Hong Kong · CNAir Force Medical University · CNUniversity of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radix Rehmanniae, Fructus Schisandrae, Radix Bupleuri, and Fructus Gardeniae are often used alongside with clozapine (CLZ) for schizophrenia patients in order to reduce side effects and enhance therapeutic efficacy. However, worse outcomes were observed raising concern about a critical issue, herb-drug interactions, which were rarely reported when antipsychotics were included. This study aims to determine whether the concomitant use of these herbal medicines affects the pharmacokinetic characteristics of CLZ in rat models. Rats were given a single or multiple intraperitoneal injections of 10 mg/kg CLZ, either alone or with individual herbal water extracts administered orally. CLZ and its two inactive metabolites, norclozapine and clozapine N-oxide, were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. In the acute treatment, the formation of both metabolites was reduced, while no significant change was observed in the CLZ pharmacokinetics for any of the herbal extracts. In the chronic treatment, none of the four herbal extracts significantly influenced the pharmacokinetic parameters of CLZ and its metabolites. Renal and liver functions stayed normal after the 11-day combined use of herbal medicines. Overall, the four herbs had limited interaction effect on CLZ pharmacokinetics in the acute and chronic treatment. Herb-drug interaction includes both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic mechanisms. This result gives us a hint that pharmacodynamic herb-drug interaction, instead of pharmacokinetic types, may exist and need further confirmation.

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AnimalsClozapineDrug InteractionsDrugs, Chinese HerbalDrug Therapy, CombinationHerb-Drug InteractionsKidney Function TestsLiver Function TestsMaleRatsSchizophreniaTissue DistributionClozapineDrugs, Chinese Herbalclozapineherbal medicineherb-drug interactionmetabolismpharmacokinetics

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PMID27240333
PMCPMC6272930
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