TABLE 3

Hepatocyte propranolol clearance, based on cell, medium, or total incubate depletion compared with microsomal prediction and observed in vivo clearance


Compartment

Hepatocyte Clearancea

CLint
ml/min/106 cells ml/min/g liver
Cell 0.041 ± 0.009
Medium 3.1 ± 0.8
Total incubate 1.8 ± 0.4 198
Microsomal incubateb 193
In vivoc

245
  • a Mean of three incubations ± S.D.; 4 nM initial medium concentration.

  • b D. Hallifax, unpublished data.

  • c Ito and Houston (2004).