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Pharmacokinetics, Tissue Distribution, and Elimination of Three Active Alkaloids in Rats after Oral Administration of the Effective Fraction of Alkaloids from Ramulus Mori, an Innovative Hypoglycemic Agent

  • Molecules. 2017 Sep 26;22(10):1616. doi: 10.3390/molecules22101616.
Shuang Yang 1 2,  Jiaqi Mi 3,  Zhihao Liu 4,  Baolian Wang 5,  Xuejun Xia 6,  Renyun Wang 7,  Yuling Liu 8,  Yan Li 9
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Affiliations

  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD Study, Department of Drug Metabolism, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. sylvia.mi@hotmail.com.
  • 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China. sylvia.mi@hotmail.com.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD Study, Department of Drug Metabolism, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. liuzhihao12399@126.com.
  • 4 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD Study, Department of Drug Metabolism, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. yanli@imm.ac.cn.
  • 5 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD Study, Department of Drug Metabolism, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. wangbaolian@imm.ac.cn.
  • 6 Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. xjxia@imm.ac.cn.
  • 7 Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. wry@imm.ac.cn.
  • 8 Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. ylliu@imm.ac.cn.
  • 9 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD Study, Department of Drug Metabolism, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China.
PMID: 28954438 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22101616
Abstract

In this study, we systematically investigated the plasma pharmacokinetics, tissue distribution, and elimination of three active Alkaloids after oral administration of the effective fraction of Alkaloids from Ramulus Mori (SZ-A)-an innovative hypoglycemic agent-in rats. Moreover, the influences of other components in SZ-A on dynamic process of Alkaloids were explored for the first time. The results showed that 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), fagomine (FGM) and 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-d-arabinitol (DAB) exhibited nonlinear pharmacokinetics following oral administration of SZ-A (40-1000 mg/kg). The prolonged t1/2 and greater area under concentration-time curve (AUC) versus time (AUC0-t) of DNJ for SZ-A than for purified DNJ has been observed after both oral and intravenous administration. It was found that other components in SZ-A could enhance the absorption of DNJ through the intestinal barrier. The major distribution tissues of DNJ, FGM, and DAB were the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and kidney. Three Alkaloids were mainly excreted into urine and feces, but less into bile. Interestingly, the excess excretion of FGM was revealed to be partly due to the biotransformation of other components in SZ-A via gut microbiota. These information provide a rational basis for the use of SZ-A in clinical practice.

Keywords

Ramulus Mori; alkaloids; biotransformation; excretion; pharmacokinetics; tissue distribution.

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