Analysis of the Contributing Role of Drug Transport Across Biological Barriers in the Development and Treatment of Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy

Overview

Journal Fluids Barriers CNS

Publisher Biomed Central

Date 2024 Feb 8

PMID 38331886

Authors

Yang Hu

Milda Girdenyte

Lieke Roest

Iida Liukkonen

Maria Siskou

Frida Ballgren

Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes

Irena Loryan

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Abstract

Background: Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) represents a major unmet medical need that currently has no preventive and/or curative treatment. This is, among others, driven by a poor understanding of the contributive role of drug transport across biological barriers to target-site exposure.

Methods: Here, we systematically investigated the transport of 11 small-molecule drugs, both, associated and not with CIPN development, at conventional (dorsal root ganglia, sciatic nerve) and non-conventional (brain, spinal cord, skeletal muscle) CIPN sites. We developed a Combinatory Mapping Approach for CIPN, CMA-CIPN, combining in vivo and in vitro elements.

Results: Using CMA-CIPN, we determined the unbound tissue-to-plasma concentration ratio (K) and the unbound intracellular-to-extracellular concentration ratio (K), to quantitatively assess the extent of unbound drug transport across endothelial interfaces and parenchymal cellular barriers of investigated CIPN-sites, respectively, in a rat model. The analysis revealed that unique pharmacokinetic characteristics underly time-dependent accumulation of the CIPN-positive drugs paclitaxel and vincristine at conventional (dorsal root ganglia and sciatic nerve) and non-conventional (skeletal muscle) CIPN sites. Investigated CIPN-positive drugs displayed intracellular accumulation contrary to CIPN-negative drugs nilotinib and methotrexate, which lacked this feature in all investigated tissues.

Conclusions: Hence, high unbound drug intracellular and extracellular exposure at target sites, driven by an interplay of drug transport across the endothelial and parenchymal cellular barriers, is a predisposing factor to CIPN development for CIPN-positive drugs. Critical drug-specific features of unbound drug disposition at various CIPN- sites provide invaluable insights into understanding the pharmacological/toxicological effects at the target-sites which will inform new strategies for monitoring and treatment of CIPN.

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