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Determination of extracellular methotrexate tissue levels by microdialysis in a rat model.

Abstract：

:We used a microdialysis technique to determine tissue methotrexate (MTX) levels during steady state in a rodent model. Two different approaches were employed to measure the actual extracellular MTX concentrations in muscle, liver, and kidney tissues of anesthetized Wistar rats. With the reduced-perfusion-rate technique, the flow in the microdialysis perfusate was gradually decreased toward zero to permit calculation of zero-flow intercepts. Using the net change technique, microdialysis probes were perfused with different MTX concentrations to allow an assessment of equilibrium drug levels. For these two methods to be used, drug concentrations in the matrix to be analyzed must remain unchanged during the experimental procedure. In the animal model, steady state was attained after 1.5 h and maintained throughout the rest of the experiments by the administration of MTX as continuous infusions through a venous catheter. In vitro and in vivo, both the reduced-perfusion-rate and net change techniques gave reproducible data that permitted the estimation of extracellular drug concentrations in the dialyzed tissue compartments.The data suggest that the level of unbound MTX in the circulation is fairly similar to the extracellular concentrations in the muscle and liver. In the kidney, MTX levels were measured to be 3-8 times higher than those of unbound, circulating MTX, and a considerable discrepancy between the two methods used for estimations was apparent. These results demonstrate that both the net change and reduced-flow microdialysis techniques can produce reproducible and precise data. The results may constitute a basis for determining recoveries and, thus, true extracellular drug levels during in vivo microdialysis of MTX. This may be of importance in delineation of the relationship between tissue MTX levels and outcome in a variety of normally inaccessible compartments during cancer pharmacotherapy.

journal_name

Cancer Chemother Pharmacol

journal_title

Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology

authors

Ekstrøm PO,Andersen A,Warren DJ,Giercksky KE,Slørdal L

doi

10.1007/s002800050403

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-01-01 00:00:00

pages

394-400

issue

eissn

0344-5704

issn

1432-0843

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Determination of extracellular methotrexate tissue levels by microdialysis in a rat model.