IMI – oral biopharmaceutics tools project – evaluation of bottom-up PBPK prediction success part 1: Characterisation of the OrBiTo database of compounds
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Predicting oral bioavailability (F oral) is of importance for estimating systemic exposure of orally administered drugs. Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling and simulation have been applied extensively in biopharmaceutics recently. The Oral Biopharmaceutical Tools (OrBiTo) project (Innovative Medicines Initiative) aims to develop and improve upon biopharmaceutical tools, including PBPK absorption models. A large-scale evaluation of PBPK models may be considered the first step. Here we characterise the OrBiTo active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) database for use in a large-scale simulation study. The OrBiTo database comprised 83 APIs and 1475 study arms. The database displayed a median logP of 3.60 (2.40-4.58), human blood-to-plasma ratio of 0.62 (0.57-0.71), and fraction unbound in plasma of 0.05 (0.01-0.17). The database mainly consisted of basic compounds (48.19%) and Biopharmaceutics Classification System class II compounds (55.81%). Median human intravenous clearance was 16.9L/h (interquartile range: 11.6-43.6L/h; n=23), volume of distribution was 80.8L (54.5-239L; n=23). The majority of oral formulations were immediate release (IR: 87.6%). Human F oral displayed a median of 0.415 (0.203-0.724; n=22) for IR formulations. The OrBiTo database was found to be largely representative of previously published datasets. 43 of the APIs were found to satisfy the minimum inclusion criteria for the simulation exercise, and many of these have significant gaps of other key parameters, which could potentially impact the interpretability of the simulation outcome. However, the OrBiTo simulation exercise represents a unique opportunity to perform a large-scale evaluation of the PBPK approach to predicting oral biopharmaceutics.
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Case studies for challenging compounds, with lipophilicity and Fu p at the extremes of a previously published representative dataset, highlight the value that appropriate use of PBPK modelling can add to FIH predictions.
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- Authors
- Margolskee, A., Darwich, A. S., Pepin, X., Pathak, S. M., Bolger, M. B., Aarons, L., Rostami-Hodjegan, A., Angstenberger, J., Graf, F., Laplanche, L., Müller, T., Carlert, S., Daga, P., Murphy, D., Tannergren, C., Yasin, M., Greschat-Schade, S., Mück, W., Muenster, U., van der Mey, D., Frank, K. J., Lloyd, R., Adriaenssen, L., Bevernage, J., De Zwart, L., Swerts, D., Tistaert, C., Van Den Bergh, A., Van Peer, A., Beato, S., Nguyen-Trung, A.-T., Bennett, J., McAllister, M., Wong, M., Zane, P., Ollier, C., Vicat, P., Kolhmann, M., Marker, A., Brun, P., Mazuir, F., Beilles, S., Venczel, M., Boulenc, X., Loos, P., Lennernäs, H., & Abrahamsson, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- AstraZeneca (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Simcyp (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Simulations Plus (United States) (US)
- AbbVie (Germany) (DE)
- AstraZeneca (Sweden) (SE)
- AstraZeneca (United States) (US)
- Bayer (Germany) (DE)
- Novartis (Switzerland) (CH)
- GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Janssen (Belgium) (BE)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Margolskee, Alison
- ORCID
- Venue
- European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-01
- Volume
- 96
- Pages
- 598-609
- ISSN
- 0928-0987 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2523718461
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 3.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Medical Research Council (MC_G1100157)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmaceutical Science › Drug Solubulity and Delivery Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Keywords
- oral bioavailability, physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling, active pharmaceutical ingredients, Biopharmaceutics Classification System, drug clearance, volume of distribution, lipophilicity, immediate-release formulation, simulation exercises
- MeSH terms
- Administration, Oral, Biopharmaceutics, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Forecasting, Humans, Intestinal Absorption, Models, Biological, Databases, Factual
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