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- Title
Interaction of ambrisentan with clarithromycin and its modulation by polymorphic SLCO1B1.
- Authors
Markert, Christoph; Hellwig, Regina; Burhenne, Jürgen; Hoffmann, Michael; Weiss, Johanna; Mikus, Gerd; Haefeli, Walter
- Abstract
Purpose: We assessed the effect of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 and the OATP1B1 inhibitor clarithromycin on ambrisentan steady-state kinetics and its relationship to the SLCO1B1* 15 haplotype in healthy volunteers. Methods: In this open-label, monocenter, one-sequence crossover clinical trial ten male healthy participants were stratified according to CYP2C19 and SLCO1B1 (encoding for OATP1B1) genotype into two groups: group 1 ( n = 6), with CYP2C19* 1/* 1 (extensive metabolizer, EM) and SLCO1B1 wild-type; group 2 ( n = 4), with CYP2C19 EM and homozygous ( n = 3) or heterozygous for SLCO1B1* 15 ( n = 1). The participants were administered a once-daily oral dose of 5 mg ambrisentan on study days 1 and days 3-14 and twice-daily oral doses of 500 mg clarithromycin on study days 11-14. To monitor CYP3A activity 3 mg midazolam was given orally 1 day before the first ambrisentan administration and on days 1, 10, and 14 of ambrisentan treatment. Ambrisentan plasma kinetics was assessed on days 1 (single dose), 10 (steady-state), and 14 (CYP3A4/OATP1B1 inhibition by clarithromycin). Results: Consistent with the expectation that ambrisentan does not induce its own metabolism, ambrisentan exposure and peak concentration (C) were similar after the first dose and at steady-state. Clarithromycin increased the area under the plasma concentration-time curve of ambrisentan by 41 % and C by 27 % ( n = 10, both p < 0.05). No contribution of SLCO1B1* 15 to the extent of this interaction was observed. Conclusions: Clarithromycin increased ambrisentan exposure to a similar extent to ketoconazole, namely, clinically minor and likely irrelevant.
- Subjects
CONFIDENCE intervals; CROSSOVER trials; DRUG interactions; GENES; GENETIC polymorphisms; MIDAZOLAM; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; U-statistics; DATA analysis; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CLARITHROMYCIN
- Publication
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2013, Vol 69, Issue 10, p1785
- ISSN
0031-6970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00228-013-1529-1