Browsing by Author "Jaatinen, Hannakaisa"

This thesis work was carried out in Biology Section of Experimental Therapeutics Programme in Spanish National Cancer Research Center in Madrid. The aim of this work was to carry out characterization of ADME profile of novel protein kinase inhibitors synthesized by the Medicinal Chemistry Section of Experimental Therapeutics Programme. ADME refers to absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. ADME screening provides crucial information when choosing new chemical entities (NCEs) and lead compounds with desirable properties for further development and for clinical studies. ADME screening is carried out in the early discovery phase in order to avoid costly failures in the later stages. The protein kinase inhibitors used in this work were designed against three different targets. However, the targets cannot be disclosed in this work due to confidentiality reasons and thus they will be referred to as X, Y, and Z. The ADME characterization was performed in a high-throughput format to screen fast compounds with desired properties. To carry out ADME characterization for the novel compounds, several in vitro assays and in vivo pharmacokinetic studies were carried out. The work was started by setting up an LC-MS/MS detection method for each compound. All in all, LC-MS/MS detection method was set up for 63 new compounds. The detection method was used to analyze the results of different in vitro and in vivo studies. In vitro assays included kinetic solubility assay, parallel artificial membrane permeability assay (PAMPA), microsomal metabolic stability assay, plasma protein binding assay, and solubility in biological fluids. The solubility in biological fluids assay was performed only for the two compounds that were selected for the pharmacokinetic (PK) study. Pharmacokinetic properties of the compounds selected for the pharmacokinetic study using the Balb/C mice were further analyzed by their pharmacokinetic parameters. These parameters were calculated by applying non-compartmental model in the WinNonlin software. One compound, ETP-871, showed promising results in the pharmacokinetic study. Another compound ETP-827 was cleared too fast from the body. Too fast excretion is undesirable since low plasma concentration of the drug is insufficient to reach the therapeutic effect. For the compound ETP-827 a new PK study with higher dose was carried out. Due to the confidentiality reasons, these further studies are not presented in this work.