Influence of study design in assessing food effects on absorption of erythromycin base and erythromycin stearate
Open Access
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 20 (2), 190-196
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.20.2.190
Abstract
We performed a series of six single-dose and multiple-dose studies to evaluate the effect of food on the absorption of erythromycin base and erythromycin stearate. When we used a single-dose design, we found that an unprotected erythromycin base preparation was absorbed extensively if a prolonged fast preceded administration of the drug. A shorter faster period (as occurs in clinical settings) dramatically reduced the absorption of unprotected base; however, film-coated tablets seemed to be as well protected as and were absorbed more rapidly than enteric-coated tablets when they were evaluated by single-dose testing procedures. In contrast, when a commercially available film-coated preparation of erythromycin base was evaluated in multidose fashion between meals (fasting), the drug was about 25% less well absorbed than commercially available enteric-coated base tablets. Finally, when commercially available film-coated erythromycin base and stearate formulations were administered with meals, both film-coated preparations were 43 to 59% less well absorbed than the enteric-coated base formulation. Furthermore, the enteric-coated base formulation performed equally well when administered either every 6 h between meals (fasting) or four times a day (immediately after meals and at bedtime). These studies document the need for multidose bioavailability techniques when the bioavailabilities of acid-labile drugs are evaluated.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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