The hepatic metabolism of oxycodone by cytochromes P450 (CYP) and the UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGT), the main metabolic enzymes of phase I and phase II, respectively, was assessed in vitro. The N-demethylation by CYP3A4/5 and the O-demethylation by CYP2D6 in human liver microsomes (HLM) followed Michaelis-Menten kinetics, with intrinsic clearances of 1.46μL/min/mg and 0.35μL/min/mg, respectively. Although noroxycodone and oxymorphone mainly contribute to the elimination of oxycodone, the simulated total in vivo clearance using in vitro phase I metabolism was underestimated. For the first time, metabolism of oxycodone by UGT was deeply investigated using HLM, recombinant enzymes and selective inhibitors. Oxycodone-glucuronide was mainly produced by UGT2B7 (K=762±153μM, V=344±20 peak area/min/mg) and to a lesser extent by UGT2B4 (K=2454±497μM, V=201±19 peak area/min/mg). Finally, the kinetics of the drug-drug interactions were assessed using two CYP and UGT cocktail approaches. Incubations of HLM with phase I and phase II drug probes showed that oxycodone mainly decreased the in vitro activities of CYP2D6, CYP3A4/5, UGT1A3, UGT1A6 and UGT2B subfamily with an important impact on UGT2B7.
A high-throughput screening method using MEEKC was developed for the determination of 1-octanol-water partition coefficients (log P(oct)). Two approaches were carried out to decrease determination times to about 20 min per compound: (i) a dynamically coated capillary was used to increase the EOF at low pH, allowing the measurement of log P(oct) of acidic compounds and (ii) a short-end injection was performed to reduce the capillary effective length. The analytical conditions were optimized to determine the lipophilicity of neutral, basic, and acidic compounds with log P(oct) ranging from 0 to 5. The developed method was first applied to a well-balanced set of 35 reference compounds, and second to a set of 21 acidic and 29 basic pharmaceutical compounds. Finally, determinations were achieved with MS detection, allowing a 20-fold throughput increase thanks to sample pooling. An atmospheric pressure photoionization source was selected to advantageously replace ESI as it was less affected by the non-volatile BGE additives used in MEEKC.
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