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Durham, P G; Zhang, Y; German, N; Mortensen, N; Dhillon, J; Mitchison, DA; Fourie, P B; Hickey, A J
Molecular pharmaceutics, 08/2015, Volume: 12, Issue: 8Journal Article
Tuberculosis is the most serious infectious disease caused by a single organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The standard of care is a protracted and complex drug treatment regimen made more complicated and of longer duration by the incidence of multiple and extensively drug resistant disease. Pulmonary delivery of aerosols as a supplement to the existing regimen offers the advantage of delivering high local drug doses to the initial site of infection and most prominent organ system involved in disease. Pyrazinamide is used in combination with other drugs to treat tuberculosis. It is postulated that the action of pyrazinoic acid (POA), the active moiety of pyrazinamide, may be enhanced by local pH adjustment, when presented as a salt form. POA was prepared as leucine (POA-leu) and ammonium salts (POA-NH sub(4)), spray dried, and characterized in terms of physicochemical properties (melting point, crystallinity, moisture content), aerodynamic performance (aerodynamic particle size distribution, emitted dose), and in vitro inhibitory effect on two mycobacteria (Mtb and Mycobacterium bovis). Particles were prepared in sizes suitable for inhalation (3.3 and 5.4 mu m mass median aerodynamic diameter and 61 and 40% of the aerodynamic particle size distribution less than 4.46 mu m, as measured by inertial impaction, for POA-leu and POA-NH sub(4), respectively) and with properties (stoichiometric 1:1 ratio of salt to drug, melting points at similar to 180 degree C, with water content of <1%) that would support further development as an inhaled dosage form. In addition, POA salts demonstrated greater potency in inhibiting mycobacterial growth compared with POA alone, which is promising for therapy. Keywords: pyrazinoic acid salts; spray drying; therapeutic aerosols; pulmonary drug delivery; antimycobacterial activity; tuberculosis
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