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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Karlsson, Johan
• Artursson, Per

Titel

A new diffusion chamber system for the determination of drug permeability coefficients across the human intestinal epithelium that are independent of the unstirred water layer

Ist Teil von

• Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1992-11, Vol.1111 (2), p.204-210

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A new method for determining permeability coefficients, that are independent of the unstirred water layer (UWL), has been developed. The method was used to determine the cellular permeability coefficient of the rapidly absorbed drug testosterone in monolayers of the human intestinal epithelial cell line, Caco-2. Using a new diffusion cell with an effective stirring system based on a gas lift, the cellular permeability coefficient for testosterone was (1.98 ± 0.13) · 10 −4 cm/s which is 3.5-times higher than the permeability coefficient obtained in the unstirred system. The thickness of the UWL obtained with the well stirred diffusion cell was 52 ± 4 μm. This value is much lower than those previously rreported in various well stirred in vitro models. The calculated cellular permeability of testosterone was 13–23-times lower than that for an UWL of the same thickness as the epithelial cell (17–30 μm). We conclude that the permeability of the epithelial monolayer must be included in calculations of the thickness of the UWL.