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Bodenlenz, M; Tiffner, KI; Raml, R; Augustin, T; Dragatin, C; Birngruber, T; Schimek, D; Schwagerle, G; Pieber, TR; Raney, SG; Kanfer, I; Sinner, F.
Open Flow Microperfusion as a Dermal Pharmacokinetic Approach to Evaluate Topical Bioequivalence.
Clin Pharmacokinet. 2017; 56(1):91-98 Doi: 10.1007/s40262-016-0442-z [OPEN ACCESS]
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Leading authors Med Uni Graz: Sinner Frank Michael; Weiss Manfred
Co-authors Med Uni Graz: Birngruber Thomas; Pieber Thomas; Schwagerle Gerd
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Abstract:: The availability of generic topical dermatological drug products is constrained by the limited methods established to assess topical bioequivalence (BE). A novel cutaneous pharmacokinetic approach, dermal open-flow microperfusion (dOFM), can continuously assess the rate and extent to which a topical drug becomes available in the dermis, to compare in vivo dermal bioavailability (BA) and support BE evaluations for topical products. To evaluate whether dOFM is an accurate, sensitive, and reproducible in vivo method to characterize the intradermal BA of acyclovir from 5 % acyclovir creams, comparing a reference (R) product either to itself or to a different test (T) product. In a single-center clinical study, R or T products were applied to six randomized treatment sites on the skin of 20 healthy human subjects. Two dOFM probes were inserted in each treatment site to monitor the intradermal acyclovir concentration for 36 h. Comparative BA (of R vs. R and T vs. R) was evaluated based on conventional BE criteria for pharmacokinetic endpoints (area under the curve and maximum dermal concentration) where the 90 % confidence interval of the geometric mean ratio between the T and R falls within 0.80-1.25. The positive control products (R vs. R) were accurately and reproducibly confirmed to be bioequivalent, while the negative control products (T vs. R) were sensitively discriminated not to be bioequivalent. dOFM accurately, sensitively, and reproducibly characterized the dermal BA in a manner that can support BE evaluations for topical acyclovir 5 % creams in a study with n = 40 (20 subjects in this study).
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