Thiazolidinediones Are Partially Effective Bitter Blockers

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PURPOSE: The bad bitter taste of some medicines is a barrier to overcoming noncompliance with medication use, especially life-saving drugs given to children and the elderly. Here, we evaluated a new class of bitter blockers (thiazolidinediones, TZDs).

METHODS: In this study, 2 TZDs were tested, rosiglitazone (ROSI) and a simpler form of TZD, using a high-potency sweetener as a positive control (neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, NHDC). We tested bitter-blocking effects using the bitter drugs tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF), a treatment for HIV and hepatitis B infection, and praziquantel (PRAZ), a treatment for schistosomiasis, by conducting taste testing with 2 separate taste panels: a general panel (N = 97, 20-23 years, 82.5% female, all Eastern European) and a genetically informative panel (N = 158, including 68 twin pairs, 18-82 years, 76% female, 87% European ancestry). Participants rated the bitterness intensity of the solutions on a 100-point generalized visual analog scale.

FINDINGS: Person-to-person differences in drug bitterness were striking; TAF and PRAZ were weakly or not bitter for some people but moderately to highly bitter for others. Participants in both taste panels rated the bitter drugs TAF and PRAZ as less bitter on average when mixed with NHDC than when sampled alone. ROSI partially suppressed the bitterness of TAF and PRAZ, but effectiveness differed between the 2 panels: bitterness was significantly reduced for PRAZ but not TAF in the general panel and for TAF but not PRAZ in the genetically informative panel. ROSI was a more effective blocker than the other TZD.

IMPLICATIONS: These results suggest that TZDs are partially effective bitter blockers and the suppression efficacy differs from drug to drug, from person to person, and from panel to panel, suggesting other TZDs should be designed and tested with more drugs and on diverse populations to define which ones work best with which drugs and for whom. The discovery of bitter receptor blockers can improve compliance with medication use.

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UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Aug 10;:. - PMID 37609224

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Clinical therapeutics - (2024) vom: 09. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nguyen, Ha [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Cailu [VerfasserIn]
Sasimovich, Ivona [VerfasserIn]
Bell, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Leszkowicz, Emilia [VerfasserIn]
Rawson, Nancy E [VerfasserIn]
Reed, Danielle R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bitter blocker
Bitter taste
Journal Article
Medicine
Praziquantel
Tenofovir alafenamide fumarate
Thiazolidinedione

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Date Revised 18.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Aug 10;:. - PMID 37609224

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10.1016/j.clinthera.2024.02.002

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NLM369521552