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Gastric and intestinal absorption of monofluorophosphate and fluoride in the rat.

This paper reports data indicating that, in the rat, sodium monofluorophosphate (MFP, CAS 10163-15-2) is absorbed without hydrolysis through the stomach. This phenomenon and the fact that MFP binds to plasma globulins produce a prompt increase in protein-bound MFP concentration, significantly greater than the increase in plasma ultrafilterable fluoride. Intestinal absorption of MFP was investigated with the isolated duodenal loop in situ. The drug was hydrolyzed to fluoride at the intestinal lumen with a rate of approx. 3 times greater than that for fluoride absorption. After filling the duodenal loop with a MFP solution, ultrafiltrable fluoride accounts for the increase in plasma fluoride concentration, with no evidence of protein-bound MFP. This report also includes analytical techniques for the measurement of MFP in test solutions and in plasma.

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Delayed intestinal absorption of levothyroxine.

We report four female patients with nodular goiter (in two of the four due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis) and one male patient with frank hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis in whom TSH-suppressive or replacement L-T4 therapy failed to suppress or, respectively, normalize serum TSH. As is typical in our country, our patients took L-T4 15-20 min before a light breakfast. Gastrointestinal or other diseases and drugs known to interfere with the intestinal absorption of L-T4 were not the cause of this failure. The gastrointestinal absorption test of L-T4 (1000 micrograms) was performed in four patients; in three patients it revealed peculiar abnormalities in that (i) the absorption peak was > 70% but occurred at 4 hr vs an average of 2 hr in 12 euthyroid controls (EC) and 3 hr in the 10 primary hypothyroid controls (HC); (ii) 50% of the maximal absorption occurred at 110 min vs 45 min in EC and 50 min in HC; (iii) the maximal increment in T4 absorption was between 90 and 120 min (+111%) vs between 30 and 60 min in EC (+312%) and HC (+354%). In sum, only the first part of the absorption curve of T4 was shifted to the right (in three of the four women) and this shift was more pronounced and extended to the second part of the curve in the fourth patient; in this last patient absorption peak was 44% at 180 min. Based on these results, we obtained full suppression or normalization of TSH by postponing breakfast for at least 60 min after T4 ingestion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Intestinal absorption by carrier-mediated transports: two-dimensional laminar flow model.

The two-dimensional laminar flow model was adapted to the intestinal absorption of drug and biological substances by carrier-mediated transports in the single perfusion experiments and we investigated the effects of the unstirred water layer on the Michaelis constant and the maximum transport velocity. According to the calculated values, the half saturation concentration at the inlet was larger than the true Michaelis constant at the intestinal wall. The apparent values of the Michaelis constant and the maximum transport velocity obtained by the Lineweaver-Burk plots were larger than the true ones, and the relations were not linear. These deviations increased as the ratio of the maximum transport velocity to the Michaelis constant increased and as the perfusion rate decreased. In the concurrent presence of a passive transport, underestimation of the carrier-mediated transport component of the absorption rate (at steady state) was predicted. It is considered to cause the underestimation of the maximum transport velocity. When water was absorbed (or secreted), the absorption rate increased (or decreased) and did not saturate. This two-dimensional laminar flow model would enable us to analyze the experimental data to determine the true values of the Michaelis constant and the maximum transport velocity.

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