Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Indexes of polar interactions between ionizable drugs and membrane phospholipids measured by IAM–HPLC: Their relationships with data of Blood–Brain Barrier passage

Grumetto, Lucia; Russo, Giacomo; Barbato, Francesco

Authors

Lucia Grumetto

Francesco Barbato



Abstract

Phospholipid affinity indexes (log k IAM/w) for 21 structurally non-related basic, acidic, ampholytic, and neutral drugs were measured by HPLC on two different phospholipid stationary phases (Immobilized Artificial Membrane – IAM). The differences between the experimental values and those expected for neutral isolipophilic compounds (∆/∆' log k IAM/w) were assumed as a measure of polar and electrostatic forces involved in the interactions drug/membrane. Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) permeation data (log BB) weakly related with n-octanol lipophilicity values of the neutral forms (log PN), but only after the exclusion of two analytes. No relationship was observed with the lipophilicity of the mixture of charged and neutral forms (log D7.4) and very poor relationships were also found with values. In contrast, a good linear inverse relationship was found between log BB and ∆/∆' log k IAM/w values. This relationship was also observed on an enlarged set of 42 data points obtained by assembling the drugs considered with 21 drugs examined in our previous works (acids and bases).

The results suggest that ∆/∆' log k IAM/w parameter, as a sole descriptor, is effective in evaluating the capability of a compound to cross the BBB, indicating that the polar/electrostatic interactions, which are the additional interactions described by IAM, are of prime importance in predicting BBB passage.

Citation

Grumetto, L., Russo, G., & Barbato, F. (2014). Indexes of polar interactions between ionizable drugs and membrane phospholipids measured by IAM–HPLC: Their relationships with data of Blood–Brain Barrier passage. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 65, 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejps.2014.09.015

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 13, 2014
Online Publication Date Sep 27, 2014
Publication Date 2014-12
Deposit Date May 4, 2020
Journal European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Print ISSN 0928-0987
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 65
Pages 139-146
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejps.2014.09.015
Keywords BBB – Blood–Brain Barrier; Phospholipids; IAM–HPLC; Membrane; Lipophilicity
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2658283