The concentration-time curve of ciprofloxacin has been assessed in the blood compartment and in the lung tissue following oral administration of the drug. Immediate release and erosion-controlled dosage forms have been examined. A numerical model based on finite differences and taking into account all relevant data has been built: the kinetics of drug release in the gastrointestinal tract, drug absorption in the blood compartment and elimination, and the transient diffusion of the drug through the lung tissue. A partition coefficient for the drug at the tissue-blood interface has been considered to express the drug concentration at the tissue surface. The effect of dose frequency and erosion rate on the antibiotic versus time curves in the plasma and the lung tissue has been studied in detail.
The drug level-time history in plasma and lung tissue was calculated with an antibiotic orally delivered in either an immediate-release or a controlled-release dosage form. The drug profiles were compared with experiment results given in the literature. In the same way, the drug level was evaluated in the bronchial secretion in contact with lung tissue. A numerical model, based on finite differences taking all the known facts into account was built and tested with the data found in the literature. Transport of the drug was looked at, including a stage of diffusion through the thickness of the lung tissue and a stage of convection into the bronchial secretion. A few parameters were thus considered, including the thickness of the lung tissue and the diffusivity of the antiobiotic through the tissue, the thickness of the bronchial secretion and the coefficient of convective transport into the sputum which characterizes its viscosity. Two partition factors were also introduced for the drug: between the tissue and the serum and between the lung tissue and the bronchial secretion.
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