The role of in vitro ADME assays in antimalarial drug discovery and development
| Autor: | Todd W Shearer, Kirsten S. Smith, Damaris S. Diaz, Julio Ramirez, Constance O. Asher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Drug
Drug discovery Drug candidate media_common.quotation_subject Organic Chemistry General Medicine Metabolic stability Biology Pharmacology Mass Spectrometry Computer Science Applications Cell Line Antimalarials Dogs Pharmacokinetics Drug development Intestinal Absorption Drug Design Drug Discovery Animals Humans Drug Interactions media_common ADME |
| Zdroj: | Combinatorial chemistryhigh throughput screening. 8(1) |
| ISSN: | 1386-2073 |
| Popis: | The high level of attrition of drugs in clinical development has led pharmaceutical companies to increase the efficiency of their lead identification and development through techniques such as combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput (HTP) screening. Since the major reasons for clinical drug candidate failure other than efficacy are pharmacokinetics and toxicity, attention has been focused on assessing properties such as metabolic stability, drug-drug interactions (DDI), and absorption earlier in the drug discovery process. Animal studies are simply too labor-intensive and expensive to use for evaluating every hit, so it has been necessary to develop and implement higher throughput in vitro ADME screens to manage the large number of compounds of interest. The antimalarial drug development program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Division of Experimental Therapeutics (WRAIR / ET) has adopted this paradigm in its search for a long-term prophylactic for the prevention of malaria. The overarching goal of this program is to develop new, long half-life, orally bioavailable compounds with potent intrinsic activity against liver- and blood-stage parasites. From the WRAIR HTP antimalarial screen, numerous compounds are regularly identified with potent activity. These hits are now immediately evaluated using a panel of in vitro ADME screens to identify and predict compounds that will meet our specific treatment criteria. In this review, the WRAIR ADME screening program for antimalarial drugs is described as well as how we have implemented it to predict the ADME properties of small molecule for the identification of promising drug candidates. |
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