1. Metabolism-guided discovery of a potent and orally bioavailable urea-based calcimimetic for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism
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Pierre Deprez, Paul M. Wehn, Jeff D. Reagan, Minghan Wang, Paul E. Harrington, Mark P. Grillo, Kanaka Pattabiraman, James Davis, Charles Henley, Sean Morony, Taoues Temal, Christopher H. Fotsch, Steve F. Poon, Timothy J. Carlson, David J. St. Jean, Sarah E. Lively, Yuhua Yang, and Jenny Ying-Lin Lu
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Male ,Calcimimetic ,Metabolite ,Clinical Biochemistry ,Administration, Oral ,Biological Availability ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Pharmacology ,Biochemistry ,Rats, Sprague-Dawley ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Pharmacokinetics ,In vivo ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Animals ,Urea ,Potency ,Molecular Biology ,CYP3A4 ,Organic Chemistry ,medicine.disease ,Rats ,Bioavailability ,Thiazoles ,chemistry ,Parathyroid Hormone ,Molecular Medicine ,Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary ,Secondary hyperparathyroidism ,Receptors, Calcium-Sensing ,Half-Life ,Protein Binding - Abstract
A series of urea based calcimimetics was optimized for potency and oral bioavailability. Crucial to this process was overcoming the poor pharmacokinetic properties of lead thiazole 1. Metabolism-guided modifications, characterized by the use of metabolite identification (ID) and measurement of time dependent inhibition (TDI) of CYP3A4, were essential to finding a compound suitable for oral dosing. Calcimimetic 18 exhibited excellent in vivo potency in a 5/6 nephrectomized rat model and cross-species pharmacokinetics.
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- 2013