Versatile Solid Modifications of Multicomponent Pharmaceutical Salts : Novel Metformin-Rhein Salts Based on Advantage Complementary Strategy Design

This study aimed to develop an effective treatment for diabetes and diabetic complications, based on the advantage complementary strategy of drug-drug salt, by designing and synthesizing the multicomponent molecular salts containing metformin (MET) and rhein (RHE). Finally, the salts of MET-RHE (1:1), MET-RHE-H2O (1:1:1), MET-RHE-ethanol-H2O (1:1:1:1), and MET-RHE-acetonitrile (2:2:1) were obtained, indicating the polymorphism of salts formed by MET and RHE. The structures were analyzed by the combination of characterization experiments and theoretical calculation, and the formation mechanism of polymorphism was discussed. The obtained results of in vitro evaluation showed that MET-RHE had a similar hygroscopicity with metformin hydrochloride (MET·HCl), and the solubility of the component of RHE increased by approximately 93 times, which laid a foundation for improving the bioavailability of MET and RHE in vivo. The evaluation of hypoglycemic activity in mice (C57BL/6N) indicated that MET-RHE exhibited better hypoglycemic activity than the parent drugs and the physical mixtures of MET and RHE. The above findings demonstrate that this study achieved the complementary advantages of MET and RHE through the multicomponent pharmaceutical salification technique, and provides new possibilities for the treatment of diabetic complications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutics - 15(2023), 4 vom: 09. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yu, Mingchao [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Meidai [VerfasserIn]
An, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Wenwen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Baoxi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Shiying [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xiuying [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Dezhi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Du, Guanhua [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Diabetic complications
Drug–drug salt
Hygroscopicity
Hypoglycemic activity
Journal Article
Polymorphism
Solubility

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Date Revised 01.05.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/pharmaceutics15041196

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356152553