Comparative pharmacokinetics of borneol in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion and sham-operated rats

Comparative pharmacokinetics of borneol in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion and sham-operated rats 冰片在中风及假手术大鼠体内的药代动力学研究 first-author corresp ‡Corresponding Authors ‡Corresponding Authors †E-mail:dushouying@263.netlandocean28@163.com †E-mail:dushouying@263.netlandocean28@163.com dushouying@263.net corresp ‡Corresponding Authors ‡Corresponding Authors †E-mail:dushouying@263.netlandocean28@163.com †E-mail:dushouying@263.netlandocean28@163.com dushouying@263.net Department of Industrial Pharmacy, School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100102, China Department of Industrial Pharmacy, School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100102, China Objective: 2 This study was designed to investigate the pharmacokinetics of borneol in the pathological conditions of stroke and evaluate the pharmacokinetic differences of borneol caused by stroke after oral administration of borneol and Xingnaojing (XNJ). Methods: 2 The rats were divided into two groups, ischemia-reperfusion (IR) and sham-operated (SO) rats. Each group contained two subgroups: pure borneol and XNJ subgroups. After administration with the same dosages of borneol 162.0 mg/kg, plasma samples were collected. The cerebral ischemia-reperfusion model was created by reversible middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). The blood samples were collected punctually after oral administration and a specific gas chromatographic system-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) method was developed and employed to determine the level of borneol in the plasma. The pharmacokinetic parameters were analyzed using non-compartmental methods with Kinetica. Results: 2 After administration of borneol, the maximum plasma concentration ( C max ) and area under the curve (AUC) values in stroke rats significantly increased by 302% and 275%, respectively, compared with the SO rats, and the same phenomenon appeared after administration of XNJ. In the rats with the same physiological conditions, the C max and AUC had higher values in the borneol subgroup ( P < 0.05). Conclusions: 2 These results suggest that the pathological damages of ischemia-reperfusion have a significant impact on the pharmacokinetic traits of borneol and that there are some components in XNJ inhibiting the absorption of borneol. 研究目的 2 中风的发生对冰片药代动力学特征的影响。 创新方法 2 首次对冰片及其中药制剂在脑取血再灌注（中风病理状态下）的药代动力学进行研究，为药物在中风治疗中的应用提供参考。 研究手段 2 采用大脑中动脉堵塞法建立脑缺血中风模型，中风组和假手术组分别灌胃冰片与醒脑静口服制剂，不同时间点眼眶取血后用气相色谱氢火焰离子化检测器（GC-FID）测定，并用非房室模型分析药时曲线（见图3），得各药代动力学参数（见表2）。 重要结论 2 脑取血再灌注损伤（中风状态）可以促进冰片的吸收及生物利用，醒脑静中其他成分对其药代动力学特征也有一定影响。 Borneol Pharmacokinetics Cerebral ischemia-reperfusion Xingnaojing 冰片 药代动力学 脑缺血再灌注 醒脑静 Introduction 1 Stroke is defined as an acute neurologic dysfunction of vascular origin with sudden or rapid occurrence of symptoms and signs corresponding to the involvement of focal areas in the brain (Goldstein et al., 1989 1989 ). Cerebral ischemia and hemorrhage, its two main types, account for 85% and 15%, respectively (Meairs et al., 2006 2006 ). Stroke is a common cause of death and disability in adults worldwide and its incidence is becoming higher with an aging population. Xingnaojing (XNJ) is an effective traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) preparation to treat stroke. It is derived from An Gong Niu Huang Wan and consists of only four herbs, namely, moschus, Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, borneol, and Curcuma aromatica Salisb, maintaining the original potency. Now it has been used in the therapy of strokes as an injection in China and other Asia countries with good results (Cai et al., 2000 2000 ; Guo et al., 2010 2010 ). However, because the drawbacks that include inconvenience, expensiveness and several adverse reactions of injection, more researchers (Lu et al., 2011a 2011a ; 2011b 2011b ) are focusing on safer methods of administration including the development of an oral solid preparation of XNJ. Borneol is an effective component in XNJ. Reports showed that borneol shares many bioactivities such as anti-inflammatory (Ehrnhöfer-Ressler et al., 2013 2013 ), antithrombotic (Li et al., 2008 2008 ), improvement of the energy metabolism (Liu et al., 2011 2011 ), and protection against cerebral ischemic damage (Imanshahidi and Hosseinzadeh, 2006 2006 ). Besides, borneol can accelerate the opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), improving the penetration and bioavailability of other drugs (Li et al., 2007 2007 ; Dai et al., 2009 2009 ). So it has been widely used in clinics. Though the pharmacokinetics of borneol have been reported (Huang et al., 2009 2009 ; Zhao et al., 2012 2012 ), as we all know, the patients are the ultimate consumers of drugs according to the “prescription response to the symptom” theory, and the pharmacokinetics under pathological conditions and the influence of stroke on the pharmacokinetics are necessary for research. In our current study, we utilize the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model to investigate the pharmacokinetic characteristics of borneol under pathological conditions after oral administration of XNJ or borneol. A sham-operated (SO) group was also set up for comparison and to evaluate the influence of a stroke on pharmacokinetics. Differences in pharmacokinetics of borneol after oral administration of XNJ decoction or pure borneol between MCAO and SO rats are illustrated. It will be our intent to indicate the influence of the factors including the state of the stroke and the other components in XNJ on the pharmacokinetics of borneol, and furthermore, to supply more information in the clinical use of borneol and also establish a better foundation to develop the oral solid XNJ preparation. Materials and methods 1 Materials and reagents 2 Borneol was purchased from the Guizhou Golden Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., China. XNJ oral tablets were prepared in our laboratory. Borneol reference standards (Fig. 1 1 ) were provided from the National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products (NICPBP, Beijing, China). Octadecane as an internal standard (Lon et al., 2011 2011 ) was purchased from the Guangfu Fine Chemical Research Institute (Tianjin, China). The ethyl acetate used was of chromatography grade (Fisher Scientific, USA). Preparation of oral medicine 2 Fine borneol powder was weighed and dissolved in 0.7% (7 g/L) carboxymethylcellulose sodium (CMC-Na) aqueous solution. XNJ tablets were grinded and also suspended in 0.7% CMC-Na solution, and then mixed them into the concentration containing borneol 16.2 mg/ml for preparation of the animal oral administration. Instrumentation and chromatographic conditions 2 A GC-FID system, comprised of a Techcomp D7980 gas chromatographic (GC) system, a flame ionization detector (FID), and Techcomp Chemstation software for data analysis (Tianmei Scientific Instrument Company, Shanghai, China), was used in this study. The separation of borneol and octadecane was performed with a high performance capillary column (Techcomp TM-1701; 30 m×0.32 mm×0.25 μm). Nitrogen, at a flow rate of 30 ml/min, was used as the carrier gas. The oven temperature was programmed to rise from an initial temperature of 105 °C (remained for 8 min) to 185 °C at a rate of 50 °C/min and held isothermally at 185 °C for 6 min, then to rise to 250 °C by post run for 6 min. The injection port temperature was 250 °C and detector temperature was maintained at 300 °C. Then 1 μl of samples were injected automatically. Animals 2 Male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, weighing 240–260 g, were purchased from the Weitong biotechnology Inc. (Beijing, China). All animals were housed under standard conditions of temperature, humidity, and light, and ad libitum fed with water and food before the experiments. The animals were fasted for 12 h with free access to water prior to administration and the investigation was conducted in accordance with the Regulation for the Administration of Affairs Concerning Experimental Animals (State Science and Technology Commission, 1988 1988 ). Sample preparation 2 A total of 20 μl octadecane solution (internal standard, 60.0 g/ml in ethyl acetate) was added into the 180 μl plasma sample. After vortex-mixing for 1 min, 200 μl of ethyl acetate was added. The mixture was vortex-mixed for 30 s and centrifuged for 5 min at 10 000 r/min, and then 1 μl of supernatant fluid was injected into the GC system for analysis. Assay method validation 2 The assay of borneol in rat plasma was developed and validated as follows. The specificity was evaluated by comparing the different samples, and there was no interference to the analyses of main components (Fig. 2 2 ). (a) A blank plasma; (b) Blank plasma sample spiked with borneol; (c) Blank plasma sample spiked with XNJ; (d) Plasma samples 30 min after oral administration of XNJ; (e) Plasma samples 30 min after oral administration of borneol (1: borneol; 2: octadecane) The 20 μl borneol solutions at different concentrations were added into the 180 μl blank rat plasmas to prepare a series of standard samples. They showed a good linearity ( r =0.9998) at the concentrations of 0.1128, 0.5639, 1.1280, 2.2556, 5.6390, 11.2800, and 18.0400 μg/ml and the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) for borneol was 0.0564 μg/ml while the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) is 10. Validation was performed with the quality control (QC) samples at three different concentrations of 0.5639, 5.6390, and 18.0400 μg/ml. The extraction recovery was 100.48% to 106.19%. The stability of the sample storage (at room temperature for 4 h, at −20 °C for 7 d) was assessed with the relative error (RE) less than ±10% for all samples. The intra-day and inter-day precisions were evaluated by assay QC samples in a single day and three consecutive days. The results are shown in Table 1 1 . All results of the assay validation verified the accuracy and stability of the GC methods. c B : borneol concentration; RSD: relative standard deviation; RE: relative error 2 c B (μg/ml) 2 Intra-day 2 Inter-day RSD (%) RE (%) RSD (%) RE (%) 0.56 0.32 9.98 2.51 −5.88 5.64 3.36 4.69 3.11 −8.31 18.04 4.42 −0.86 6.48 −2.34 In vivo pharmacokinetic study 2 All the rats were divided into two groups: ischemia-reperfusion (IR) and sham-operated (SO) rats. Each group contained two subgroups ( n =5): XNJ and borneol subgroups. The MCAO model rats were induced according to the method of Longa et al. ( 1989 1989 ) with minor modifications. Briefly, after isolating the right common carotid artery (CCA), the external carotid artery (ECA), and the internal carotid artery (ICA), we ligated the ECA and CCA, and then a 0.26-mm polylysine-coated nylon monofilament was inserted through the ICA to occlude the middle cerebral artery (MCA) in the brain, followed by a reperfusion 2 h later. As a control, the SO rats were prepared like the model except that a filament insertion was utilized. The pharmacokinetic study was performed 24 h after reperfusion in the model groups, i.e., 26 h after operation in the SO group. The XNJ subgroup rats were orally administered with XNJ decoction dissolved in 0.7% CMC-Na aqueous solution (10.00 ml/kg body weight (BW)). The pure borneol subgroup also received gavages of borneol suspension (10.00 ml/kg BW). Borneol and XNJ suspensions were administrated respectively at a dosage of 162.0 mg/kg of borneol. Then 0.5 ml plasma samples were collected into heparinized tubes by the puncture of the retro-orbital sinus at 5, 10, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 180, 240, and 360 min separately following oral administration. After centrifugation at 6000 r/min for 10 min, plasma samples were stored at −20 °C and analyzed within one week. Data analysis 2 Experimental data and pharmacokinetic parameters are expressed as mean±standard deviation (SD). Plasma concentration-time curves were plotted, and the maximum plasma concentration ( C max ) and the corresponding time ( T max ) values were obtained directly from them. The pharmacokinetic parameters such as area under the curve from time zero to last sampling time (AUC 0– t ), terminated half-life ( t 1/2 ), and the mean residence time (MRT) were calculated by non-compartmental methods using a Kinetica Version 4.4 (Innaphase, MA, USA). Statistical comparisons among four groups were performed with SPSS Version 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) using unpaired Student’s t -test with P < 0.05 as the level of significance. Results 1 The validated GC method was successfully applied to the pharmacokinetic study of borneol after oral administration of pure borneol or XNJ suspension. The mean plasma concentration-time curve profile of borneol is illustrated in Fig. 3 3 and shows a single peak phenomenon with rapid absorption and excretion in all groups. Borneol could be detected in the rats’ plasma in 5 min after oral administration and 90% of the borneol is eliminated within 4 h. However, pharmacokinetic differences existed obviously between the IR and SO groups or borneol and XNJ subgroups. The pharmacokinetic parameters are shown in Table 2 2 in detail after two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Data are expressed as mean±SD ( n =5) Data are expressed as mean±SD ( n =5) P < 0.05, versus oral administration of XNJ in the same group P < 0.05, versus oral administration of pure borneol in SO group Group C max (μg/ml) T max (min) AUC 0– t [(μg/ml)∙min] AUC 0–∞ [(μg/ml)∙min] t 1/2 (min) MRT (min) IR  Pure borneol 5.41±1.43 * * # # 39±8.21 428.18±109.05 * * # # 460.57±114.68 * * # # 107.99±38.45 117.09±25.87  XNJ 2.88±1.21 32±9.08 263.81±88.43 304.05±95.40 127.68±85.64 165.61±90.81 SO  Pure borneol 1.79±0.49 * * 42±6.71 155.42±41.89 * * 171.57±42.83 * * 84.97±20.92 144.72±40.80  XNJ 1.23±0.67 36±8.21 131.55±60.61 149.12±74.18 106.36±24.45 151.05±53.09 Borneol in rats of different pharmacological states (ischemia-reperfusion or sham-operated) 2 As shown in Table 2 2 , after administration of borneol, there were statistically significant differences in the parameters including the C max , AUC 0– t , and AUC 0–∞ between the IR and SO rats. Particularly, the borneol of plasma in the IR rats attained C max [(5.41±1.43) μg/ml] at 39 min, while AUC 0– t and AUC 0–∞ were (428.18±109.05) and (460.57±114.68) (μg/ml)∙min. On the contrary, the values of C max , AUC 0– t , and AUC 0–∞ in the SO group decreased significantly ( P< 0.05) with a longer T max [(42±6.71) min]. MRT and t 1/2 in the IR rats were also increased compared to the SO rats, but the growth is not significant because of the greater variability and small numbers of animals. Similar to the rats given borneol, the C max , AUC 0– t , and AUC 0–∞ were bigger in the IR rats when administrated with XNJ suspension. The above findings suggest that cerebral ischemia-reperfusion improves the absorption of borneol and influences its pharmacokinetics trait. Borneol in rats administrated with different suspensions (borneol or XNJ) 2 Whether in IR or SO rats, C max , AUC 0– t , and AUC 0–∞ were much larger after administrated with borneol compared to XNJ ( P < 0.05), though borneol in rats given XNJ reached C max with lower T max and C max became lesser too. As Fig. 3 3 shows, those differences were more obvious in the IR group. The above results showed that borneol was absorbed better when rats were given it alone. Discussion 1 With the progress of pharmacokinetic research, more importance has been paid to the influence of pathological status on drug procession. Many researchers have demonstrated that hepatic disease leads to a higher plasma concentration and lower clearance rate in the metabolism of drugs (Pieniaszek et al., 1994 1994 ; Rodighiero, 1999 1999 ). Considering that stroke is becoming a worldwide mental disease (Kaste et al., 1998 1998 ; Meairs et al., 2006 2006 ), it is necessary to research its effects on drugs. In this study, we chose the MCAO model to imitate the abnormal state of stroke. This transient focal ischemic model is distinguished by its severe contralateral hemiparesis and ipsilateral Horner’s syndrome, which is close to the status of strokes in humans. It is widely used in scientific research (Truong et al., 2012 2012 ). Many researchers had indicated that the permeability of BBB after reperfusion subsequent to cerebral ischemia increases gradually in 24 h to the peak, and begins to decrease at the 48 h time point (Rosenberg et al., 1998 1998 ; Wu et al., 2006 2006 ). So the administration time was chosen at the 24 h time point after reperfusion. In order to diminish the influence of the operation on the rat’s pharmacological status, an SO group was included. The comparison of pharmacokinetic traits between IR and SO rats showed the influence of cerebral ischemia-reperfusion on drugs successfully. Because of its pharmacological activity, absorption enhancement (Li et al., 2006 2006 ), and its ability of helping other drugs to penetrate through BBB (Cai et al., 2008 2008 ), borneol has been widely used in TCM prescription treating strokes including XNJ (Zeng et al., 2013 2013 ). It is necessary to research the pharmacokinetics of borneol entirely. Considering that borneol or the other components of high plasma concentrations will lead to adverse reaction, even toxicity (Hou et al., 2008 2008 ; Liu et al., 2010 2010 ; Li et al., 2011 2011 ), we increased the prescription dosage to 162.0 mg/kg of borneol based on previous studies (Huang et al., 2006 2006 ; Xiao et al., 2007 2007 ). Due to the severe symptoms and many complications after strokes, the patients’ physiological status changes a lot. The pharmacokinetic study in the state of stroke is meaningful and this study is the first attempt to investigate the effect of cerebral ischemia-reperfusion on pharmacokinetics of borneol. The results demonstrated significantly higher C max , AUC 0– t , and AUC 0–∞ in the IR rats compared to the SO rats. As a small liposoluble monoterpenoid molecular, borneol could pass through the gastric mucosa easily at all time. The better absorption in stroke rats may result from the following reasons: (1) Firstly, stroke would cause the hemorrhage of the upper gastrointestinal tract, which occurs with the syndromes of over-abundance gastric acid, gastric mucosa festering, and ulcer (Otegbayo et al., 2006 2006 ). It means that the gastric mucosa barrier is open to borneol, and therefore, more borneol will be absorbed. (2) Secondly, fever following reperfusion was observed in this study, it accords with research on humans with strokes (Georgilis et al., 1999 1999 ). The abnormal temperature will increase the blood flow, which brings more plasma protein to combine with borneol in a certain time period. What is more, poor ability to remove drugs off at per time unit in the state of pathophysiology may contribute to a larger AUC. In conclusion, the effects of ischemic stroke on the absorption, distribution, and metabolism of borneol will lead to a different pharmacokinetics of borneol. Considering that XNJ consists of four herbs and other components may also influence the pharmacokinetics of borneol, we gave the rats XNJ orally and found that the pharmacokinetic differences between IR rats and SO rats still existed. A larger C max and AUC 0– t were observed in the IR group though other components may influence borneol. When focusing on rats of the same physiological state, the pharmacokinetic differences of borneol were significant between the borneol and the XNJ subgroups. The values of C max , T max , and AUC decreased when rats were given XNJ. It indicated that other herbal components can indeed influence the pharmacokinetics of borneol. The major components except borneol contained in XNJ are geniposide, muscone and Curcuma aromatica volatile oil. Research has indicated that those three components all have anti-inflammatory activity (Li, 1985 1985 ; Wang et al., 2000 2000 ; Koo et al., 2006 2006 ), so they may relieve fever effectively by acting on the infection following stroke. Lee et al. ( 2009 2009 ) also reported that geniposide shows acid-neutralizing capacities and also antioxidant activities. Therefore, geniposide can protect the gastric mucosa after stroke occurred and influence the permeation of borneol subsequently. What is more, drug interactions in XNJ may lead to a pharmacokinetic change after administration of the prescription. Though the exact mechanism is ambiguous, the pharmacokinetic differences of borneol in rats given different drug forms should be given attention to. 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