Bsg poster - march 2000

Colonic mucosal concentrations of prednisolone following oral administration
of a novel formulation of prednisolone metasulphobenzoate (Predocol)
1Bell GD, 2English J, 3Spiers C, 4Nylander D, 4Hancock J, 5Rowland RS 1Sunderland University Medical Sciences Faculty, 2School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, 3Flexpharm Ltd, Watford, Herts, 4Department of Gastroenterology, Sunderland Royal Hospital, 5RMR Systems Ltd, Kirton, Suffolk Background
mens were taken with standard endoscopy biopsy Tiss ue Prednisolone levels after 40mg dose C o n c l u s i o n s
Acknowledgements
forceps from each of seven different sites around the Prednisolone metasulphobenzoate (PMSB) is colon i.e. 1) Caecum 2) Hepatic flexure 3) Mid Trans- The magnetic endoscope imaging system [3,4] The authors would like to thank the patients and sparingly absorbed, but effective when adminis- verse colon 4) splenic flexure 5) descending colon played a vital role in ensuring that all samples were endoscopy nursing staff at the Sunderland Royal tered topically, in distal UC [1]. A new oral formu- 6) sigmoid colon and 7) Rectum. The saline-washed taken from the correct anatomical segment of the Hospital for their help and co-operation during lation of PMSB (Predocol) has been developed in specimens were stored at minus 40 degrees centi- colon. The present results confirm that Predocol which the drug, contained in capsules coated with grade for later measurement of tissue prednisolone capsules delivers high concentrations of PMBS to Eudragit L, is disseminated throughout the large levels using a radio-immunassay [5].
the left half of the colon in a consistent manner.
bowel in controlled delivery pellets. Pilot stud-ies suggest there is little systemic absorption of prednisolone from Predocol, and earlier patient studies using a similar formulation were promis- Total colonoscopies were possible in all 20 pa- tients. No side effects were reported by any of the 17 patients given Predocol. The individual and Figure 1 - Mean (SEM) mucosal concentrations of prednisolone
(ng/mg tissue) taken at colonoscopy approximately 4 hours
mean (SEM) mucosal concentration of pred- after the last dose of a 7 day course of Predocol in a dose
nisolone (ng/mg tissue) of the 10 patients in the equivalent to 40mg of prednisolone base. On the horizontal
To measure a) the mucosal concentrations of pred- Predocol 40 group are shown in Table 1 and Fig- axis are shown the 7 sites along the length of the colon that
nisolone in seven different anatomical locations biopsies were taken. Sites 1-7 represent the caecum, hepatic
flexure, mid transverse colon, splenic flexure, descending co-
along the colon following oral administration of lon, sigmoid colon and rectum respectively. Peak concentra-
Predocol, and b) to see if the pattern of release of tions occurred in the descending colon
the PMSB from the pH dependant Eudragit/con- trolled delivery pellet formulation along the co- At all sites along the colon except the rectum, the lon was affected by altering gastric acidity with a mucosal concentrations of prednisolone were sig- nificantly lower in the Predocol 20 group whencompared with the Predocol 40 patients – see Fig- Ethical approval has been obtained to study a to- tal of 38 patients with relatively asymptomatic The colonic mucosal concentrations found in the 3 Ulcerative Colitis of greater than 10 years dura- patients (NG, RS, and TR) given 20mg of normal tion who are due to come up for routine surveil- prednisolone are shown in Figure 3 along with lance colonoscopy. To date (14th February 2000) the mean(SEM) results for the 7 patients studied to we have studied 20 patients. In 10 patients, Figure 3 - Mean (SEM) mucosal concentrations of prednisolone (ng/mg tissue) taken at colonoscopy approxi-
Predocol was administered in a dose equivalent to mately 4 hours after the last dose of a 7 day course of Predocol in a dose equivalent 20mg of prednisolone
20 mg of prednisolone base BD for 7 days (Predocol (orange data points ). For comparison the individual data points for three UC patients (NG, RS, and TR)
colonoscoped approximately 4 hours after their last dose of 20 mg of prednisolone are shown
40 group). In a further 7 UC patients, the dose ad- ministered was equivalent to 10mg of prednisolone BD for 7 days (Predocol 20 group). In addition, for purposes of comparison, we have studied 3 symp- The colonic tissue mucosal concentrations of ex- Table 1 - Tissue mucosal concentrations of prednisolone found
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