Table 2

Pharmacokinetic parameters and Km values for the metabolism of the compounds tested

No.CompoundKmValue2-afubRBi.v. DoseCLpIn Vivo CLH, int2-cFpo
μM mg/kg ml/min/kg
1Alprenolol9.51.712-b 2791480.04
2Chlorpromazine0.101.482-b 476162
3Diazepam30.221.041.5521080.35
47-Ethoxy coumarin0.80.220.98(infusion)4897
5Hexobarbital1050.621.0025621950.18
6Lidocaine1.72-a 0.381.2710885910.01
7Phenytoin4.60.180.991013150.26
8Propranolol0.0750.781.5620.08
9Quinidine2.62-a 0.201.87593193
10Verapamil0.0540.85140780.06
11Compound X0.0382-b 1322-b 460.462-b
12Compound Y0.0672-b 1362-b 560.102-b
13Antipyrine22001.001.00203.63.70.74
14Caffeine1500.902.513141.00
15Ibuprofen702-a 0.022.52.82.90.90
16Tolbutamide6500.0310.75130.50.50.90
17Theophylline0.723.253.73.81.00
18(S)-Warfarin320.01122 (s.c.)0.180.18

All values were quoted from the literature as follows: alprenolol (Borg et al., 1974; Skanberg, 1980); chlorpromazine (Sato and Koshiro, 1995a,b); diazepam (Igari et al., 1984; Tsang and Wilkinson, 1982;Zomorodi et al., 1995); 7-ethoxy coumarin (Carlile et al., 1998); hexobarbital (Igari et al., 1982; Rane et al., 1977; Sawada et al., 1985; Van der Graaff et al., 1985; Vermeulen et al., 1991); lidocaine (Kawai et al., 1985; Nakamoto et al., 1997; Shibasaki et al., 1988;Supradist et al., 1984); phenytoin (Ashforth et al., 1995; Colburn and Gibaldi, 1977; Scriba et al., 1995; Tsuru et al., 1982); propranolol (Iwamoto and Watanabe, 1985; Singh et al., 1991; Terao and Shen, 1983); quinidine (Rakhit and Mico, 1985; Watari et al., 1989); verapamil (Bhatti and Foster, 1997; Manipisitkul and Chiou, 1993); antipyrine (Buters and Reichen, 1990; Pollack et al., 1984; Singh et al., 1991;Torres-Molina et al., 1992); caffeine (Bonati et al., 1984, 1985; Hayes et al., 1995); ibuprofen (Kata and Tekle, 1992; Satterwhite and Boudinot, 1991); tolbutamide (Ashforth et al., 1995; Sugita et al., 1981; Yamao et al., 1994); theophylline (Gomita et al., 1991; Matthew and Houston, 1990; Ramzan and Levy, 1987); (S)-warfarin (Baars et al., 1990; Pohl et al., 1976).

  • 2-a  Km values were obtained from incubation with hepatocytes except for Nos. 6, 9, and 15, which were obtained from microsomal incubation.

  • 2-b  In-house data.

  • 2-c  In vivo CLH, int was calculated by the dispersion model assuming that hepatic clearance was the same as CLp. No. 8 was calculated to be infinite because the CLp value was greater than the hepatic blood flow rate.