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Lack of effect of aprepitant on hydrodolasetron pharmacokinetics in CYP2D6 extensive and poor metabolizers.

Author(s): Li SX, Pequignot E, Panebianco D, Lupinacci P, Majumdar A, Rosen L, Ahmed T, Royalty JE, Rushmore TH, Murphy MG, Petty KJ

Affiliation(s): Merck Research Laboratories, PO Box 4, West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, USA.

Publication date & source: 2006-07, J Clin Pharmacol., 46(7):792-801.

To prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, aprepitant is given with a corticosteroid and a 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 antagonist, such as dolasetron. Dolasetron is converted to the active metabolite hydrodolasetron, which is cleared largely via CYP2D6. The authors determined whether aprepitant, a moderate CYP3A4 inhibitor, alters hydrodolasetron pharmacokinetics in CYP2D6 poor and extensive metabolizers. Six CYP2D6 poor and 6 extensive metabolizers were randomized in an open-label, crossover fashion to treatment A (dolasetron 100 mg on day 1) and treatment B (dolasetron 100 mg plus aprepitant 125 mg on day 1, aprepitant 80 mg on days 2-3). For hydrodolasetron area under the concentration-versus-time curve (AUC(0-infinity)) and peak plasma concentration (Cmax), geometric mean ratios (B/A) and 90% confidence intervals (CIs) fell below the predefined limit (<or=2.0) for clinical significance (AUC(0-infinity), 1.09 [90% CI, 1.01-1.18], Cmax, 1.08 [90% CI, 0.94-1.24]). Aprepitant did not affect the pharmacokinetics of hydrodolasetron, regardless of CYP2D6 metabolizer type, and was generally well tolerated when coadministered with dolasetron in volunteers.

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