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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Pharm Res. 2018 Oct 25;35(12):243. doi: 10.1007/s11095-018-2526-y

Table I.

Inhibition of the Human (h) OCT1 and OCT2-Mediated Morphine Uptake by the Drugs Commonly Co-Administered with Morphine

Drug Cmax,unbounda
[μM]
Cmax port,unboundb
[μM]
hOCT I hOCT2
IC50 [μM] Cmax,unbound/IC50 Cmax,unbound/IC50 IC50 [μM] Cmax,unbound/IC50
Fluoxetine 0.01 0.7 9.06 ± 3.24 0.001 0.08 3.32 ± 0.76 0.003
Imipramine 0.07 4.5 4.03 ± 1.62 0.02 1.12 0.52 ± 0.1 1 0.13
Amitriptyline 0.01 4.3 1.89 ± 0.77 0.005 2.28 0.41 ± 0.05 0.02
Irinotecan 3.89 3.9 1.36 ± 0.43 2.86 2.87 0.3 1 ± 0.07 12.55
Ondansetron 0.08 0.08 0.27 ± 0.10 0.30 0.30 0.24 ± 0.05 0.33
Verapamil 0.06 1.7 9.62 ± 3.63 0.04 0.18 3.24 ± 0.70 0.02

Cmax,unbound: maximal plasma concentration of the unbound drug; Cmax port,unbound, maximal unbound plasma concentration in the portal vein

a

The maximal plasma concentration (Cmax) was obtained from Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics except for the Cmax of ondansetron (Zofran, information for prescribers) and fluoxetine (23)

b

The maximal unbound plasma concentration in the portal vein (Cmax prot,unbound,) was calculated by Tzvetkov et al. (12)