An attempt to predict daily erythrocyte lithium fluctuations
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Erythrocyte lithium concentration, which is a better predictor of brain lithium levels than plasma lithium concentrations, possesses the disadvantage of precise hourly determination following the last intake. The variability in RBC lithium accumulation increases as the extracellular lithium concentration increases. This increase is also time dependent and it would be very useful if the pharmacokinetic rate constant were known. Unfortunately, low lithium levels do not allow measurements within confidence intervals. In this work, we tried to determine, in vitro, the kinetic rate constants in erythrocytes of healthy volunteers. Different high lithium loaded plasma-like media were used for an extrapolation procedure of constants allowing the determination of an erythrocyte load constant namely K0=0.0161±0.0005 h−1 at corresponding plasma lithium concentrations. The abnormalities of lithium transport determined by in vitro procedures would be very useful in understanding the etiology of affective illness. Lithium flux pre-controls corrected with this rate constant would be very helpful in enlarging laboratory time management.
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