Ivermectin interacts with human ABCG2.

Márton Jani, Ildikó Makai, Emese Kis, Pál Szabó, Tünde Nagy, Péter Krajcsi, Anne Lespine

Solvo Biotechnology, Budaörs, Hungary.

Journal of pharmaceutical sciences 2011 Jan

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Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug frequently administered to humans. It has a limited brain exposure that is attributed to the efflux activity of ABCB1/Abcb1. ABCG2/Abcg2 is also a major transporter present in most pharmacologically important barriers. However, interaction of ivermectin with Abcg2 shows species specificity and in many studies was confounded by the masking effect of ABCB1/Abcb1. In this study using cellular and membrane assays we show that ivermectin displays a high-affinity interaction with human ABCG2 with IC(50) values in the 1-1.5 µM range. This interaction may have implications in human ABCG2-mediated drug-drug interactions of ivermectin. Copyright © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. and the American Pharmacists Association

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Márton Jani, Ildikó Makai, Emese Kis, Pál Szabó, Tünde Nagy, Péter Krajcsi, Anne Lespine. Ivermectin interacts with human ABCG2. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences. 2011 Jan;100(1):94-7