Blood-brain barrier in vitro models as tools in drug discovery: Assessment of the transport ranking of antihistaminic drugs

Abstract

In the course of our validation program testing blood-brain barrier (BBB) in vitro models for their usability as tools in drug discovery it was evaluated whether an established Transwell model based on porcine cell line PBMEC/C1-2 was able to differentiate between the transport properties of first and second generation antihistaminic drugs.

Keywords

• endothelial-cell line
• P-glycoprotein
• multidrug-resistance
• oral bioavailability
• mediated transport
• biliary-excretion
• fexofenadine
• pharmacokinetics
• performance
• culture