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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine. 2011 Jan 8;7(4):435–444. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2010.12.009

Table 1.

Plasma Pharmacokinetic Parameters§

Drug Treatment# λz T½ Tmax Cmax AUC0-∞ AUMC0-∞ MRT0-∞ Clt Vd
PTX SOL 0.66 ± 0.13 1.05 ± 0.33 1 146 ± 14.37 508.74 ± 10.81 825.39 ± 22.71 1.62 ± 0.88 0.04 ± 0.01 0.06 ± 0.03
PTX TAR NP 0.36 ± 0.07 * 1.92 ± 0.26 1 107.04 ± 11.04 497.60 ± 17.46 1364.85 ± 31.64 *** 2.74 ± 0.75 0.040 ± 0.02 0.11 ± 0.09
PTX NON NP 0.34 ± 0.10** 2.06 ± 0.50 1 102.48 ± 16.84 436.48 ± 12.36**/ 1201.23 ± 29.04***/‡‡‡ 2.75 ± 0.77 0.05 ± 0.01 0.13 ± 0.09
LON SOL 0.42 ± 0.16 1.67 ± 1.32 1 185.33 ± 21.99 768.80 ± 24.75 1815.05 ± 24.52 2.36 ± 0.64 0.10 ± 0.02 0.25 ± 0.11
LON TAR NP 0.17 ± 0.09 4.16 ± 1.87* 1 207.32 ± 27.81 1316.01 ± 33.07*** 5761.99 ± 34.85*** 4.38 ± 1.01*** 0.06 ± 0.03 0.27 ± 0.18
LON NON NP 0.18 ± 0.12 3.92 ± 1.42 1 183.37 ± 24.71 992.44 ± 35.46***/‡‡‡ 3738.87 ± 31.66***/‡‡‡ 3.77 ± 1.00 0.08 ± 0.05 0.30 ± 0.14
§

Parameter (abbreviation, units): the terminal elimination rate constant (λz, 1/h), the half-life (T½, h), the time of maximal concentration (Tmax, h), the maximal concentration (Cmax, µg/ml), the area under the curve (AUC0-∞, µg/ml*h), the area under the moment cur (AUMC0-∞, µg/ml*h2), the mean residence time (MRT0-∞, h), the total body clearance (Clt, (mg/kg)/(µg/ml)/h), and the volume distribution (Vd, (mg/kg)/(µg/ml)).

Drug; Paclitaxel (PTX), Lonidamine (LON)

#

Treatment; Solution (SOL), Targeted Nanoparticles (TAR NP), Nontargeted Nanoparticles (NON NP)

***

p<0.0001,

**

p<0.01,

*

p<0.05 between SOL and either TAR NP or NON NP

‡‡‡

p<0.0001,

‡‡

p<0.01,

p<0.05 between TAR NP and NON NP