[HTML][HTML] How drugs get into cells: tested and testable predictions to help discriminate between transporter-mediated uptake and lipoidal bilayer diffusion

DB Kell, SG Oliver - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
One approach to experimental science involves creating hypotheses, then testing them by
varying one or more independent variables, and assessing the effects of this variation on the …

Optimized approaches for quantification of drug transporters in tissues and cells by MRM proteomics

B Prasad, JD Unadkat - The AAPS journal, 2014 - Springer
Drug transporter expression in tissues (in vivo) usually differs from that in cell lines used to
measure transporter activity (in vitro). Therefore, quantification of transporter expression in …

Liquid biopsy enables quantification of the abundance and interindividual variability of hepatic enzymes and transporters

B Achour, ZM Al‐Majdoub… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Variability in individual capacity for hepatic elimination of therapeutic drugs is well
recognized and is associated with variable expression and activity of liver enzymes and …

Non-uniformity of changes in drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters in liver cirrhosis: implications for drug dosage adjustment

E El-Khateeb, B Achour, ZM Al-Majdoub… - Molecular …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Liver cirrhosis is a chronic disease that affects the liver structure, protein expression, and
overall metabolic function. Abundance data for drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters …

Proteomic quantification of human blood–brain barrier SLC and ABC transporters in healthy individuals and dementia patients

ZM Al-Majdoub, H Al Feteisi, B Achour… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) maintains brain homeostasis by controlling traffic of
molecules from the circulation into the brain. This function is predominantly dependent on …

Simultaneous quantification of the abundance of several cytochrome P450 and uridine 5′-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferase enzymes in human liver microsomes …

B Achour, MR Russell, J Barber… - Drug metabolism and …, 2014 - ASPET
Cytochrome P450 (P450) and uridine 5′-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT)
enzymes mediate a major proportion of phase I and phase II metabolism of xenobiotics. In …

Toward a consensus on applying quantitative liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry proteomics in translational pharmacology research: a white paper

B Prasad, B Achour, P Artursson… - Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative translation of information on drug absorption, disposition, receptor engagement,
and drug–drug interactions from bench to bedside requires models informed by …

Quantitative proteomics of clinically relevant drug-metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters and their intercorrelations in the human small intestine

N Couto, ZM Al-Majdoub, S Gibson, PJ Davies… - Drug Metabolism and …, 2020 - ASPET
The levels of drug-metabolizing enzymes (DMEs) and transporter proteins in the human
intestine are pertinent to determine oral drug bioavailability. Despite the paucity of reports on …

Identification and quantification of blood–brain barrier transporters in isolated rat brain microvessels

H Al Feteisi, ZM Al‐Majdoub, B Achour… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) maintains brain homeostasis by tightly regulating the
exchange of molecules with systemic circulation. It consists primarily of microvascular …

Absolute protein quantification of clinically relevant cytochrome P450 enzymes and UDP-glucuronosyltransferases by mass spectrometry-based targeted proteomics

C Gröer, D Busch, M Patrzyk, K Beyer… - … of pharmaceutical and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes and UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGT) are major
determinants in the pharmacokinetics of most drugs on the market. To investigate their …