Brain uptake pharmacokinetics of albiglutide, dulaglutide, tirzepatide, and DA5-CH in the search for new treatments of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

BACKGROUND: A number of peptide incretin receptor agonists (IRAs) show promise as therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Transport across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is one way for IRAs to act directly within the brain. To determine which IRAs are high priority candidates for treating these disorders, we have studied their brain uptake pharmacokinetics.

METHODS: We quantitatively measure the ability of four IRAs to cross the BBB. We injected adult male CD-1 mice intravenously with 125I- or 14C-labeled albiglutide, dulaglutide, DA5-CH, or tirzepatide and used multiple-time regression analyses to measure brain kinetics up to 1 hour. For those IRAs failing to enter the brain 1 h after intravenous injection, we also investigated their ability to enter over a longer time frame (i.e., 6 h).

RESULTS: Albiglutide and dulaglutide had the fastest brain uptake rates within 1 hour. DA5-CH appears to enter the brain rapidly, reaching equilibrium quickly. Tirzepatide does not appear to cross the BBB within 1 h after iv injection but like albumin, did so slowly over 6 h, presumably via the extracellular pathways.

CONCLUSIONS: We find that IRAs can cross the BBB by two separate processes; one that is fast and one that is slow. Three of the four IRAs investigated here have fast rates of transport and should be taken into consideration for testing as AD and PD therapeutics as they would have the ability to act quickly and directly on the brain as a whole.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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Tissue barriers - (2023) vom: 14. Dez., Seite 2292461

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rhea, Elizabeth M [VerfasserIn]
Babin, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Thomas, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Omer, Mohamed [VerfasserIn]
Weaver, Riley [VerfasserIn]
Hansen, Kim [VerfasserIn]
Banks, William A [VerfasserIn]
Talbot, Konrad [VerfasserIn]

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Alzheimer’s disease
Glucagon-like peptide -1 receptor
Incretin receptor agonists
Journal Article
Parkinson’s disease
Pharmacokinetics

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Date Revised 14.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1080/21688370.2023.2292461

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NLM365862142