{"title":"How do i build an ‘Ideal’ PBPK model if my drug is either a substrate or inducer","authors":"Ryuta Asaumi","doi":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11298,"journal":{"name":"Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101061"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery, validation, and application of transporter endogenous biomarkers: A work of translation","authors":"Hong Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11298,"journal":{"name":"Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101093"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarina Kyburz , William A. Murphy , Thomas Kralj , John K. Fallon , Jacqueline B. Tiley , Kim L.R. Brouwer
{"title":"Development of an in vitro Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis (MASH) model to study hepatic transporters","authors":"Sarina Kyburz , William A. Murphy , Thomas Kralj , John K. Fallon , Jacqueline B. Tiley , Kim L.R. Brouwer","doi":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11298,"journal":{"name":"Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144194485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel mechanisms of drug-metabolizing hydrolases regulating the toxicity caused by reactive metabolites","authors":"Tatsuki Fukami","doi":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11298,"journal":{"name":"Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101066"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144194662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human aldo-keto reductase (AKR) 1C1 and 1C2 act as coactivators of pregnane X receptor, a master regulator of drug-metabolizing and gluconeogenesis enzymes","authors":"Rei Mitamura , Seiya Takemoto , Yuka Aoyama , Koki Morita , Yuichiro Higuchi , Shotaro Uehara , Nao Yoneda , Hiroshi Suemizu , Tatsuki Fukami , Masataka Nakano , Miki Nakajima","doi":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aldo-keto reductase (AKR) 1C subfamily, comprising AKR1C1-1C4, plays a crucial role in drug metabolism and hormone biosynthesis. Recent studies have identified AKR1C3 as a co-activator of the androgen receptor. This study aimed to investigate whether AKR1Cs function as regulators of the pregnane X receptor (PXR), a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, which upregulates drug-metabolizing enzymes such as cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4. Rifampicin-activated CYP3A4 induction was attenuated by AKR1C1/1C2 knockdown in ShP51 cells (PXR-overexpressing HepG2 cells), HepaRG cells, and HepaSH cells (hepatocytes from humanized liver mice). Co-immunoprecipitation analysis revealed that AKR1Cs interact with PXR. Immunofluorescent staining revealed that AKR1Cs are translocated into the nucleus with PXR by rifampicin in HepaRG cells. These results suggested that AKR1C1/1C2 has an ability to enhance transactivity of PXR. Consistent with the results of knockdown experiments, PXR-mediated CYP3A4 induction was significantly attenuated by treatment with AKR1C1/1C2 inhibitors, diazepam or flunitrazepam, in ShP51, HepaRG, and HepaSH cells. Furthermore, the induction of CYP2B6, CYP2C9, glucose 6-phosphatase, and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 1, all regulated by PXR, was attenuated by AKR1C1/1C2 inhibitors. Collectively, we demonstrated that AKR1C1/1C2 upregulates PXR transactivation. Clinically used drugs that inhibit AKR1C1/1C2 may suppress PXR-mediated transactivation of genes encoding drug-metabolizing and gluconeogenesis enzymes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11298,"journal":{"name":"Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101481"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population pharmacokinetics of brexpiprazole in Japanese healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia","authors":"Koushi Higashi , Tomohiro Sasaki , Kazuo Aoki , Daisuke Sekine , Kenji Maeda , Yuki Shiomi , Yosuke Kawai","doi":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101057","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Brexpiprazole, widely approved for the treatment of schizophrenia, is an atypical antipsychotic that modulates serotonin–dopamine activity. To better understand the pharmacokinetics (PK) of brexpiprazole in Japanese patients, a population PK model was constructed and used to estimate steady state PK profiles and parameters as well as dopamine D<sub>2</sub>/D<sub>3</sub> receptor occupancy profiles after repeated oral administrations of brexpiprazole at 1 and 2 mg/day. Nonlinear mixed effects modelling was used to analyse data from a total of 398 healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia who received brexpiprazole in three Japanese clinical trials. The PK of brexpiprazole were well described by a two-compartment disposition model with transit absorption compartments. Estimated glomerular filtration rate, age and cytochrome P450 2D6 phenotype were identified as significant covariates on CL/F only. The model predicted that, at a dose of 2 mg/day, trough plasma concentration (90 % prediction interval) of brexpiprazole is 77.1 (22.4–173) ng/mL and that dopamine D<sub>2</sub>/D<sub>3</sub> receptor occupancy is >80 % over one day for most patients at steady state. This suggests the recommended maintenance dose of 2 mg/day of brexpiprazole leads to clinically useful dopamine D<sub>2</sub>/D<sub>3</sub> receptor occupancy at steady state in Japanese patients.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11298,"journal":{"name":"Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101057"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selection of liver models of hepatic drug clearance: Improvements and implications for ivive and PBPK modeling","authors":"K. Sandy Pang, Weijia Ivy Lu, Gerard Mulder","doi":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dmpk.2025.101148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11298,"journal":{"name":"Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144194491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}