Table 1.

Intracellular concentrations of ciclesonide, des-CIC, and des-CIC-oleate during incubation with 2 × 10^-8 M ciclesonide

Incubation time (min)	Mean concentration ± SD (pmol/dish)a)
	Ciclesonide	des-CIC	des-CIC-oleateb)
3	15.04 ± 2.48	0.41 ± 0.05	0.00 ± 0.00
5	17.86 ± 2.30	0.33 ± 0.19	0.00 ± 0.00
10	36.63 ± 23.48	0.67 ± 0.13	0.02 ± 0.05
20	34.22 ± 9.15	0.97 ± 0.14	0.12 ± 0.07
30	48.21 ± 5.19	1.72 ± 0.14	0.40 ± 0.06

^a) 5 dishes per time point

^b) Conjugates of des-CIC with palmitic acid were almost undetectable.