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- Title
Supplementing clinical lactation studies with PBPK modeling to inform drug therapy in lactating mothers: Prediction of primaquine exposure as a case example.
- Authors
Pan, Xian; Abduljalil, Khaled; Almond, Lisa M.; Pansari, Amita; Yeo, Karen Rowland
- Abstract
Evaluating the safety of primaquine (PQ) during breastfeeding requires an understanding of its pharmacokinetics (PKs) in breast milk and its exposure in the breastfed infant. Physiologically‐based PK (PBPK) modeling is primed to assess the complex interplay of factors affecting the exposure of PQ in both the mother and the nursing infant. A published PBPK model for PQ describing the metabolism by monoamine oxidase A (MAO‐A; 90% contribution) and cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6; 10%) in adults was applied to predict the exposure of PQ in mothers and their breastfeeding infants. Plasma exposures following oral daily dosing of 0.5 mg/kg in the nursing mothers in a clinical lactation study were accurately captured, including the observed ranges. Reported infant daily doses based on milk data from the clinical study were used to predict the exposure of PQ in breastfeeding infants greater than or equal to 28 days. On average, the predicted exposures were less than or equal to 0.13% of the mothers. Furthermore, in simulations involving neonates less than 28 days, PQ exposures remain less than 0.16% of the mothers. Assuming that MAO‐A increases slowly with age, the predicted relative exposure of PQ remains low in neonates (<0.46%). Thus, the findings of our study support the recommendation made by the authors who reported the results of the clinical lactation study, that is, that when put into context of safety data currently available in children, PQ should not be withheld in lactating women as it is unlikely to cause adverse events in breastfeeding infants greater than or equal to 28 days old.
- Subjects
BREASTFEEDING; MOTHERS; DRUG therapy; LACTATION; MONOAMINE oxidase; BREAST milk; MILK contamination
- Publication
CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, 2024, Vol 13, Issue 3, p386
- ISSN
2163-8306
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/psp4.13090