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the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
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Animal Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism

Correlation of the in vitro biotransformation of H3B-6527 in dog and human hepatocytes with the in vivo metabolic profile of 14C-H3B-6527 in a dog mass balance study

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Pages 458-467 | Received 29 May 2019, Accepted 11 Jul 2019, Published online: 02 Aug 2019
 

Abstract

1. H3B-6527 is an orally available covalent small molecule inhibitor of FGFR4 undergoing evaluation in adults with hepatocellular carcinoma. Absorption, metabolism, transport and elimination of H3B-6527 were investigated in vitro and in a 14C-H3B-6527 beagle dog mass balance study.

2. Following intravenous dosing in dogs, unchanged 14C-H3B-6527 represents only 1.6% of the total dose in excreta. The low amount of radioactivity in the dog urine (4.9% of the administered dose), suggests that renal elimination is a minor pathway of clearance for H3B-6527. A majority of the radioactivity was observed in the feces up to 5 days after dose administration, suggesting that drug-related material was secreted in the bile, and that H3B-6527 clearance was mostly driven by metabolism.

3. In vitro, H3B-6527 is a substrate of GSTs, CYP3A and P-glycoprotein.

4. The major pathways of metabolism were similar in human and dog hepatocytes, and occurred via glutathione (GSH) conjugations and sequential hydrolysis, N-deethylation and hydroxylation.

5. The metabolic profile of H3B-6527 was qualitatively similar in dog hepatocytes and plasma/excreta.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02834780.

Acknowledgements

The authors want to thank the H3B-6527 team at H3 Biomedicine for fruitful discussions.

Disclosure statement

This research was sponsored by H3 Biomedicine. The authors report no potential conflict of interest.

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