“…Among the tested drugs, pethidine binds mainly to α1-acid glycoprotein and the rest bind mainly to albumin [ 88 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 ] (no data on binding protein for temocapril, so binding to albumin was assumed based on pka < 7.4, acidic). The free fraction of drugs in patient plasma was estimated using Equation (3) [ 21 ]: where f u,p,CI , f u,p,HT , P prot,CI and P prot,HT represent the unbound fraction of the drug in the plasma of patients and healthy subjects and the concentration of drug-bound proteins in the plasma of patients and healthy subjects, respectively.…”