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Evaluation of Cryopreserved Human Hepatocytes as an Alternative in Vitro System to Microsomes for the Prediction of Metabolic Clearance

Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Human liver microsomes have typically resulted in marked underprediction of in vivo human intrinsic clearance (CL_int); therefore, the utility of cryopreserved hepatocytes as an alternative in vitro system has become an important issue. In this study, 10 compounds (tolbutamide, diclofenac, S-warfarin, S-mephenytoin, dextromethorphan, bufuralol, quinidine, nifedipine, testosterone, and terfenadine) were selected as substrate probes for CYP2C9, 2C19, 2D6, and 3A4, and the kinetics of metabolite formation (n = 14 pathways) were investigated in three individual lots of cryopreserved hepatocytes and in a pool of human liver microsomes. For the majority of the compounds, lower unbound K_M or S₅₀ values were observed in hepatocytes compared with microsomes, on average by 50% over a 200-fold range (0.5–140 µM). Expressed on an equivalent liver weight basis, a good correlation between microsomal and hepatocyte V_max values was observed for most pathways greater than 5 orders of magnitude (0.16–216 nmol/min/g liver). Unbound hepatocyte CL_int (CL_int,u) values, when scaled to the whole liver (range 0.38–4000 ml/min/kg), were on average 2.5-fold higher than microsomal CL_int,u values, with the exception of tolbutamide and diclofenac, for which lower hepatocellular CL_int,u values were observed. Hepatocyte predicted CL_int values were compared with human in vivo CL_int values, and to supplement our data, in vitro data from cryopreserved hepatocytes were collated from four other published sources. These data show that for 37 drugs, there is, on average, a 4.5-fold under-prediction of the in vivo CL_int using cryopreserved hepatocytes, representing a significant reduction in prediction bias compared with human microsomes.

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