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Effect of Ondansetron on Metformin Pharmacokinetics and Response in Healthy Subjects

Qing Li, Hong Yang, Dong Guo, Taolan Zhang, James E. Polli, Honghao Zhou and Yan Shu
Drug Metabolism and Disposition April 2016, 44 (4) 489-494; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.115.067223
Qing Li
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (Q.L., H.Y., D.G., J.E.P., Y.S.); Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (Q.L., T.Z., H.Z.)
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Hong Yang
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (Q.L., H.Y., D.G., J.E.P., Y.S.); Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (Q.L., T.Z., H.Z.)
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Dong Guo
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (Q.L., H.Y., D.G., J.E.P., Y.S.); Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (Q.L., T.Z., H.Z.)
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Taolan Zhang
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (Q.L., H.Y., D.G., J.E.P., Y.S.); Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (Q.L., T.Z., H.Z.)
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James E. Polli
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (Q.L., H.Y., D.G., J.E.P., Y.S.); Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (Q.L., T.Z., H.Z.)
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Honghao Zhou
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (Q.L., H.Y., D.G., J.E.P., Y.S.); Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (Q.L., T.Z., H.Z.)
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Yan Shu
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (Q.L., H.Y., D.G., J.E.P., Y.S.); Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (Q.L., T.Z., H.Z.)
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The 5-hydroxytryptamine-3 (5-HT3) receptor antagonists such as ondansetron have been used to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting for over 2 decades. This study was to determine whether ondansetron could serve as a perpetrator drug causing transporter-mediated drug-drug interactions in humans. Twelve unrelated male healthy Chinese volunteers were enrolled into a prospective, randomized, double-blind, crossover study to investigate the effects of ondansetron or placebo on the pharmacokinetics of and the response to metformin, a well-characterized substrate of organic cation transporters and multidrug and toxin extrusions (MATEs). Ondansetron treatment caused a statistically significantly higher Cmax of metformin compared with placebo (18.3 ± 5.05 versus 15.2 ± 3.23; P = 0.006) and apparently decreased the renal clearance of metformin by 37% as compared with placebo (P = 0.001). Interestingly, ondansetron treatment also statistically significantly improved glucose tolerance in subjects, as indicated by the smaller glucose area under the curve in the oral glucose tolerance test (10.4 ± 1.43) as compared with placebo (11.5 ± 2.29 mmol∙mg/l) (P = 0.020). It remains possible that ondansetron itself may affect glucose homeostasis in human subjects, but our clinical study, coupled with our previous findings in cells and in animal models, indicates that ondansetron can cause a drug-drug interaction via its potent inhibition of MATE transporters in humans.

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    • Received September 14, 2015.
    • Accepted January 19, 2016.
  • Q.L. and H.Y. contributed equally to this work.

  • This work was support in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of the People’s Republic of China [Grants 81373477 and 81570533] (to Q.L.), the National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences [Grant R01GM099742], and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [Grant U01FD004320] (to Y.S.).

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