In silico modeling for ex vivo placenta perfusion of nicotine

Nicotine readily crosses the placenta to reach fetuses. However, membrane transporters, e.g., organic cation transporters (OCTs) play a role in the clearance of nicotine from the fetal to the maternal side, and this is rarely investigated clinically. In this work, we use an model to simulate an plac...

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Published inFrontiers in pharmacology Vol. 15; p. 1275467
Main Authors Ho, Harvey, Zhang, Shengjie, Kurosawa, Ken, Jiang, Botao, Chiba, Koji
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 2024
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Summary:Nicotine readily crosses the placenta to reach fetuses. However, membrane transporters, e.g., organic cation transporters (OCTs) play a role in the clearance of nicotine from the fetal to the maternal side, and this is rarely investigated clinically. In this work, we use an model to simulate an placenta perfusion experiment, which is the gold standard for measuring the transplacental permeability of compounds, including nicotine. The model consists of a system of seven ordinary differential equations (ODEs), where each equation represents the nicotine concentration in compartments that emulate the experiment setup. The transport role of OCTs is simulated bi-directionally at the placenta's basal membrane (the fetal side). We show that the model can not only reproduce the actual experiment results, but also predict the likely maternal and fetal nicotine concentrations when the OCT transporters are inhibited, which leads to a ∼12% increase in fetal nicotine concentration after 2 hours of OCT modulated nicotine perfusion. In conclusion, a first model is proposed in this paper that can be used to simulate some subtle features of trans-placental properties of nicotine.
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ISSN:1663-9812
1663-9812
DOI:10.3389/fphar.2024.1275467