Dose‐dependent pharmacokinetics of 1‐(2‐Deoxy‐<i>β</i>‐<scp>D</scp>‐ ribofuranosyl)‐2,4‐difluoro‐5‐iodobenzene: A potential mimic of 5‐iodo‐2′‐deoxyuridine
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Abstract
The dose-range pharmacokinetics of l-(2-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)-2,4-difluoro-5-iodobenzene (5-IDFPdR), a C-aryl nucleoside mimic of IUdR, were studied in male Sprague-Dawley rats following single intravenous (i.v.) and oral doses. After i.v. administration, the blood clearance decreased from approximately 32 ml/min/kg at a dose of 15 mg/kg, to approximately 19 ml/min/kg when dosed at 54 mg/kg, and the elimination half-life increased from 8.4 min to 21.5 min, for the respective doses. While the dose-normalized area under the concentration-time curve (AUCnorm) remained practically unchanged (0.132 kg min ml(-1)) upon increasing the i.v. dose from 5 to 15 mg/kg, it increased by about 44% ( approximately 0.19 kg min ml(-1)) when the i.v. dose was increased from 15 to 54 mg/kg. Similarly, there was a dose-dependent increase in AUCnorm with increasing oral doses: AUCnorm increased by 49% as the oral dose increased from 20 to 40 mg/kg, and further by 55% as the oral dose was increased from 40 mg/kg to 54 mg/kg. For the respective oral doses, the elimination half-life increased from 24.5 min to 176 min, while blood clearance was reduced from approximately 37 ml/min/kg to approximately 17 ml/min/kg. The urinary recoveries of unchanged 5-IDFPdR and its glucuronides (as percent of the dose) were somewhat increased at higher doses. This increase was more pronounced following the highest oral dose. The total biliary recovery of 5-IDFPdR (as percent of the dose) was, however, decreased with increasing doses. The overall kinetic profile of 5-IDFPdR based on these data is suggestive of dose-dependent pharmacokinetics. Decreased elimination of 5-IDFPdR with increasing dose, as supported by longer elimination half-lives at higher doses, is one likely mechanism contributing to the dose-dependent behaviour of this compound. Saturable non-renal metabolism might explain the reduced total body clearance of 5-IDFPdR at higher doses, despite the unchanged or increased urinary clearance. For drugs exhibiting nonlinear kinetics, the dosage regimens may need to be carefully designed to avoid potential unpredictable toxicity and/or lack of pharmacological response associated with the disproportional changes in steady state drug concentrations on changing dose. Manifestation in the rat of nonlinear kinetics at doses of 5-IDFPdR, which may be of therapeutic relevance, warrants extended dose-range evaluations of this compound in future preclinical and clinical studies, to establish safe and efficacious dosage regimens.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".