Abstract
Few reports have dealt with the kinetics and metabolism of AraC and analogs by rat intestine. Using everted rat jejunum with continuous perfusion, it was possible to demonstrate that AraC and Cyd cross the intestinal barrier(s) by a carrier mediated process which was saturable and exhibited fairly good fitting of the flux rate by Michaelis-Menten equation. The transport rate of different analogs was not consistent with the pH-partition theory of membrane transport of drugs being rather dependent on the chemical structure of the nucleoside. A free amino group of cytosine increased the rate of transport within the present series of AraC analogs. There was a detectable deaminase as well as esterase activity towards AraC and its analogs in rat jejunum.
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