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Cytochrome P450 3A4-mediated pharmacokinetic interaction study between tadalafil and canagliflozin using high-performance thin-layer chromatography

Research Authors
Al-Montaser Bellah H. Ali, Fatma A. M. Abdel-aal, Azza H. Rageh, Abdel-Maaboud I. Mohamed
Research Journal
Journal of Separation Science
Research Publisher
Wiley
Research Rank
Q2
Research Vol
45
Research Website
https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jssc.202200531
Research Year
2022
Research_Pages
4187-4197
Research Abstract

Diabetes is a known risk factor for sexual dysfunction in men; diabetic men have an increased risk of erectile dysfunction compared to non-diabetic men. Canagliflozin is one of the common antidiabetic drugs that is readily used in the treatment of type-2 diabetes. Concomitantly phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors, such as tadalafil, can be given to the patient to alleviate erectile dysfunction. Canagliflozin is reported to be one of the cytochrome P450 3A4 enzyme inhibitors, that might seriously influence blood concentration levels of tadalafil but there is no study till now, discussing this interaction. Therefore, a fast, simple, and sensitive high-performance thin-layer chromatographic method was developed, validated, and applied for the simultaneous determination of tadalafil and canagliflozin in spiked and real human plasma. The limit of detection for tadalafil was 0.14 ng/band and for canagliflozin was 0.16 ng/band. The limit of quantitation value for tadalafil was 0.43 ng/band and for canagliflozin was 0.47 ng/band. Tadalafil and canagliflozin were determined simultaneously in real human plasma using the described procedure and the method was applied for in vivo pharmacokinetic drug interaction study between the studied drugs, which proved significant interaction between them when administered simultaneously.