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THE EFFECT OF BILE DUCT LIGATION AND BILE DIVERSION ON FK506 PHARMACOKINETICS IN DOGS

1992; Wolters Kluwer; Volume: 53; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/00007890-199204000-00002

1534-6080

HlROYOKI FURUKAWA, Oscar Imventarza, Raman Venkataramanan, Masatoshi Suzuki, Yue Zhu, Vijay Warty, John J. Fung, Satoru Todo, Thomas E. Starzl,

Pancreatic function and diabetes

Mongrel or beagle dogs were submitted to bile duct ligation, or to extraenteric biliary diversion by means of choledochoureterostomy. The kinetics of intravenously administered FK506 was not changed from control status two weeks after bile duct ligation, but the bioavailability of orally administered FK506 was nearly quadrupled. Following oral administration, the absorption of FK506 was highly variable. The results indicate that in dogs FK506 is absorbed from the intestine just as efficiently in the absence of enteric bile and in presence of exogenous bile salt supplement when compared with its absorption in presence of normal bile drainage. These findings with FK506 are different from those with cyclosporine after biliary obstruction or diversion and will have important practical as well as experimental ramifications.