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Exploring gastric emptying rate in minipigs: Effect of food type and pre-dosing of metoclopramide

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, March 2018
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Title
Exploring gastric emptying rate in minipigs: Effect of food type and pre-dosing of metoclopramide
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European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, March 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.ejps.2018.03.017
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Laura J Henze, Brendan T Griffin, Martin Christiansen, Christoffer Bundgaard, Peter Langguth, René Holm

Abstract

The present study investigated the gastric emptying rate in Göttingen minipigs pre- and post-prandial and evaluated the effect of metoclopramide on the same parameter, using paracetamol as an absorption marker. The pharmacokinetic evaluation of the obtained plasma concentration data for paracetamol demonstrated that the fastest gastric emptying rate was observed in the animals that were allowed access to normal pig food. There was no significant difference in the stomach emptying rate observed between fasted and fed minipigs, when fed either with a FDA standard breakfast or a nutritional energy drink. Pre-dosing minipigs with metoclopramide (0.2 or 0.4 mg/kg) did not demonstrate any effect on gastric emptying in either the fasted or fed state. The data in the present study demonstrated a relatively prolonged gastric emptying rate in mini-pigs both in the fasted and fed state, hence when conducting pharmacokinetic studies using minipigs, this should be taken into account when planning the plasma sampling time points. Further, as no difference could be observed in gastric emptying rate as a function of food, the data also suggest that the Göttingen mini-pigs seems less suited to predict for food effect studies than other species.

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Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Student > Bachelor 1 4%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 11 48%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 30%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Unknown 14 61%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2018.
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#7,852,306
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
#1,003
of 2,950 outputs
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#135,133
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Outputs of similar age from European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
#13
of 52 outputs
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