Comparison of the bioavailability of uridine in mice after either oral or parenteral administration

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology - Tập 17 - Trang 236-240 - 1986
Philip Klubes1, David B. Geffen2, Richard L. Cysyk2
1Department of Pharmacology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
2Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA

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We compared the bioavailability of uridine (Urd) (350 and 3500 mg/kg) administered either as a single SC injection or by gavage, in male CD8F1 mice. Plasma samples were analyzed for Urd and uracil (Ura) using high-pressure liquid chromatography. After Urd (3500 mg/kg, SC), plasma Urd levels peaked at 4900 μM and then declined to pretreatment levels (< 10 μM) within 6h. Plasma Ura concentrations peaked at 1400 μM and then declined initially more slowly than Urd. After Urd (3500 mg/kg, PO) plasma levels of Urd were fairly constant (range 33–82 μM) for up to 8 h and had returned to pretreatment levels at 16 h. Plasma Ura concentrations paralleled Urd, but were approxximately ten-fold higher. Areas under the concentration-time curve for Urd showed that the bioavailability of Urd after PO administration was 7% of that after SC administration. After Urd (350 mg/kg, SC) Urd levels peaked at 210 μM returning to pretreatment levels within 2 h. Plasma Ura levels reached a peak with 300 μM and then declined initially more slowly than those of Urd. After Urd (350 mg/kg, PO) plasma Urd levels were not perturbed, although Ura levels peaked at 50 μM after which they declined and could no longer be detected at 4 h. These data indicate that (a) the bioavailability of Urd (350 or 3500 mg/kg) was lower when given PO than when it was administered by SC injection; and (b) Urd (3500 mg/kg) PO resulted in prolonged and relatively constant plasma Urd levels compared with Urd (3500 mg/kg) SC. These results suggest that Urd PO should be compared with parenterally administered Urd in attempts to increase the therapeutic index of 5-fluorouracil and of antimetabolite inhibitors of de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis.

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