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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2003, p. 991-996, Vol. 47, No. 3
0066-4804/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.3.991-996.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Pharmacokinetics of Intravenous Acyclovir, Zidovudine, and Acyclovir-Zidovudine in Pregnant Rats

Stacy D. Brown, Michael G. Bartlett, and Catherine A. White*

Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2352

Received 5 August 2002/ Returned for modification 8 October 2002/ Accepted 19 December 2002

The pharmacokinetics and placental transfer of acyclovir and zidovudine monotherapies and acyclovir-zidovudine combination therapy were compared in the pregnant rat. Timed-pregnancy Sprague-Dawley rats were used for the study. Doses of 60 mg of each drug/kg of body weight in monotherapy and in combination therapy were given by intravenous bolus, and samples of maternal plasma, amniotic fluid, fetal tissue, and placental tissue were collected over a period of 8 h postdose. Concentrations of each drug in the various matrices were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography. All data were analyzed by using WinNonlin. A one-compartment model with first-order elimination was used to fit the AZT plasma data from the combination therapy rats, but the plasma data from the other groups were fit to a two-compartment model. Tissue data were analyzed by noncompartmental analysis to generate area-under-the-concentration-time-curve values. Implementation of the combination therapy altered the pharmacokinetics of each drug compared to its monotherapy pharmacokinetics. The combination of these two drugs may potentiate fetal and amniotic fluid exposures to each drug.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pharamaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2352. Phone: (706) 542-5762. Fax: (706) 542-5358. E-mail: cwhite{at}rx.uga.edu.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2003, p. 991-996, Vol. 47, No. 3
0066-4804/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.3.991-996.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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