Application of Allometric Scaling to Nanochelator Pharmacokinetics. 2023

Gregory Jones, and Lingxue Zeng, and Jonghan Kim
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.

Deferoxamine (DFO) is an effective FDA-approved iron chelator; however, its use is considerably limited by off-target toxicities and an extremely cumbersome dose regimen involving daily infusions. The recent development of a deferoxamine-based nanochelator (DFO-NP) with selective renal excretion has shown promise in ameliorating iron overload and associated physiological complications in rodent models with a substantially improved safety profile. While the dose- and administration route-dependent pharmacokinetics (PK) of DFO-NPs have been recently characterized, the optimized PK model was not validated, and the prior studies did not directly address the clinical translatability of DFO-NPs into humans. In the present work, these gaps were addressed by applying allometric scaling of DFO-NP PK in rats to predict those in mice and humans. First, this approach predicted serum concentration-time profiles of DFO-NPs, which were similar to those experimentally measured in mice, validating the nonlinear disposition and absorption models for DFO-NPs across the species. Subsequently, we explored the utility of allometric scaling by predicting the PK profile of DFO-NPs in humans under clinically relevant dosing schemes. These in silico efforts demonstrated that the novel nanochelator is expected to improve the PK of DFO when compared to standard infusion regimens of native DFO. Moreover, reasonable formulation strategies were identified and discussed for both early clinical development and more sophisticated formulation development.

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