title: Development of dry powder inhalation system of novel vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) analogue for pulmonary administration.
abstract: Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) exerts a relaxing action on tracheal smooth muscle which is mediated through interaction with VIP receptors. The deficiency of VIP in the airways has been implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma. Thus, the administration of VIP may be useful for the therapy of pulmonary diseases. However, the therapeutic application of VIP is largely limited by its rapid degradation in addition to the systemic adverse effects due to the wide distribution of VIP receptors. To overcome these problems, we succeeded to synthesize a novel VIP derivative of VIP, [R15, 20, 21, L17]-VIP-GRR (IK312532), and to prepare its dry powder for the topical administration to the lung. The physicochemical properties of dry powder were evaluated by laser diffraction and cascade impactor. The laser diffraction analysis indicated that the carrier and fine particles had median diameter of 65.6 and 4.5 microm, respectively, and the air flow at the pressure of 0.15 MPa or higher resulted in the high dispersion and significant separation of fine particle containing peptide from the carrier molecule. The cascade impactor analysis clearly showed the high emission of dry powder from capsule and the deposition of peptide on stages 3 of the cascade impactor. The intratracheal administration of dry powder inhaler (DPI) of VIP or IK312532 brought about a significant decrease of maximal number of binding sites (Bmax) for [125I]VIP in anterior and posterior lobes of rat right lung, suggesting a significant occupancy of lung VIP receptors. This effect by IK312532-DPI compared with VIP-DPI lasted for a longer period. Thus, IK312532-DPI may be a pharmacologically useful drug delivery system for the VIP therapy of pulmonary diseases such as asthma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics and COE Program in the 21st Century, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohmori
authors.forename: Satomi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Onoue
authors.forename: Kosuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Asami
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: Shizuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamada
mesh_terms: D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000818:Animals; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D004355:Drug Stability; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008168:Lung / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D010316:Particle Size; D011208:Powders; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D018005:Receptors, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide / Q000378:metabolism; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000493:pharmacokinetics
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D011208:Powders; D018005:Receptors, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide; C511374:vasoactive intestinal peptide-GRR, Arg(15,20,21)-Leu(17)-; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide