Oral administration of a low dose of midazolam (75�?g) as an in vivo probe for CYP3A activity

Autor: Gabriela Bleiber, Amalio Telenti, Thierry Buclin, Gianni Cucchia, Kerry Powell Golay, Daniele Fabio Zullino, Reinhold Kerb, Elisabeth Hustert, Pierre Baumann, Anne-Catherine Aubert, Chin B. Eap
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: European journal of clinical pharmacology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 237-46
ISSN: 1432-1041
0031-6970
Popis: OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether the oral administration of a low dose (75 micro g) of midazolam, a CYP3A probe, can be used to measure the in vivo CYP3A activity. METHODS: Plasma concentrations of midazolam, 1'OH-midazolam and 4'OH-midazolam were measured after the oral administration of 7.5 mg and 75 micro g midazolam in 13 healthy subjects without medication, in four subjects pretreated for 2 days with ketoconazole (200 mg b.i.d.), a CYP3A inhibitor, and in four subjects pretreated for 4 days with rifampicin (450 mg q.d.), a CYP3A inducer. RESULTS: After oral administration of 75 micro g midazolam, the 30-min total (unconjugated + conjugated) 1'OH-midazolam/midazolam ratios measured in the groups without co-medication, with ketoconazole and with rifampicin were (mean+/-SD): 6.23+/-2.61, 0.79+/-0.39 and 56.1+/-12.4, respectively. No side effects were reported by the subjects taking this low dose of midazolam. Good correlations were observed between the 30-min total 1'OH-midazolam/midazolam ratio and midazolam clearance in the group without co-medication (r(2)=0.64, P
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