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Title: | Considerations and Pitfalls in Selecting the Drug Vehicles for Evaluation of New Drug Candidates: Focus on in vivo Pharmaco-Toxicological Assays Based on the Rotarod Performance Test | Authors: | Matias, Mariana Silvestre, Samuel Falcão, Amílcar Alves, Gilberto |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Project: | FCT - SFRH/BD/85279/2012 FEDER funds through the POCI - COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programme Competitiveness and Internationalisation in Axis I - Strengthening research, technological development and innovation (Project No. 007491) UID/Multi/00709/2013) |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Volume: | 21 | Issue: | 1 | Abstract: | Purpose - During the discovery and development of new drugs, compounds with low aqueous solubility pose special challenges in their pharmacological evaluation and, therefore, the selection of appropriate vehicles to administer the compounds of interest is determinant for the quality of the results generated during the in vivo non-clinical studies. This work aimed to evaluate the motor deficit (as a surrogate of neurotoxicity) of several administration/delivery vehicles through the rotarod performance test. Methods - Trained male CD-1 mice were intraperitoneally administered with the following vehicles: dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), aqueous sodium chloride (NaCl) 0.9%, aqueous carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) 0.5%, polyethylene glycol (PEG)-400, propylene glycol (PG), and solutions of these vehicles containing 5% and 10% DMSO. Results - It was observed that the aqueous vehicles (NaCl 0.9% and CMC 0.5%) did not affect the performance of the animals on the rod. On the other hand, a vehicle consisting solely of DMSO led to significant motor impairment and only a small improvement was recorded over time. Additionally, a strong neuromotor toxicity was observed in the early evaluation points of the experiment using vehicles constituted by PG and PEG-400 or by mixtures of PG/DMSO (5% and 10%) and PEG-400/DMSO (5% and 10%). Conclusion - This study provides useful data about the neurotoxicity inherent to several vehicles frequently used in non-clinical pharmaco-toxicological assays, aiming to draw especial attention to the need of a careful selection of drug vehicles in order to avoid the impact of such confounding variables on the accuracy of the results and in decision-making processes. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/101879 | ISSN: | 1482-1826 1482-1826 |
DOI: | 10.18433/jpps29656 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CNC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais FFUC- Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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