TABLE 3

Blood and tissue concentrations in the liver of cyclosporine A after oral administration of doses of 10 and 50 mg/kg cyclosporine A in PXB mice and SCID mice

Data are presented as the mean from three or four animals.

DoseSystemic ExposureLiver Tissue ExposureInlet to LiverReported IC50Reference
CmaxAUC C8hIin,max,uOATP1B1OATP1B3MRP2BCRPMDR1
mg/kgμmol/lμmol·h/lμmol/kg tissueμmol/lμmol/l
PXB mice100.1310.2921.070.29–0.94
500.3491.025.891.4–4.70.150.689.31.51.7
SCID mice100.4021.204.950.36–0.96
501.585.2530.01.5–4.8Yoshida et al. (2012)
  • C8h, corresponding to liver concentrations 8 hours after oral administration of rosuvastatin; MDR1, multidrug resistance protein 1.