Biological activities and pharmacokinetics of aconitine, benzoylaconine, and aconine after oral administration in rats

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• 作者：Hai Zhang ; Sen Sun ; Wen Zhang ; Xiangqun Xie ; Zhenyu Zhu ; Yifeng Chai and Guoqing Zhang
• 刊名：Drug Testing and Analysis
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：8
• 页码：839-846
• 全文大小：397K
• ISSN：1942-7611

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Aconitine (AC), benzoylaconine (BAC), and aconine (ACN) are three representative alkaloids in Aconitum tubers. Knowing that the drug disposal process in vivo is closely related to the toxicity and efficacy of a drug, it is important to classify the disposal properties of these alkaloids. In this study, the pharmacokinetics of the three alkaloids was investigated. The results showed that the three alkaloids could be quickly absorbed, especially BAC, whose T_max was 0.31 ± 0.17 h. Their C_max was 10.99, 3.99, and 4.29 ng·mL^-1 respectively, indicating that AC had better absorption than BAC and ACN. Subsequently, we further investigated their absorption mechanism using the Caco-2 cell monolayer model in vitro. The results showed that they were poorly absorbed, and the absorption of AC and BAC was inhibited by P-gp, while the absorption of ACN was in a form of passive diffusion. The t_1/2 of AC, BAC and ACN was 1.41, 9.49, and 3.32 h, respectively, indicating that the metabolic or excretion rate of AC was quicker than that of BAC and ACN. Therefore, their metabolic stability was further investigated by using rat liver microsomes in vitro, which showed that AC was easier to be metabolized than BAC and ACN. The excretion experiments showed that AC and ACN were primarily excreted in urine, while BAC was excreted in faeces. In addition, the results of tissue distribution experiments showed that the three alkaloids distributed throughout all the organs, although the distribution rate of AC was slower than that of BAC and ACN. Copyright