Developmental Regulation of Proteins Responsible for Transforming Drugs in the Body

Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Registration Number: NCT00117715

Lead Sponsor: Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Brief Summary: This is a drug metabolism study in one-year old children involving caffeine and dextromethorphan.

Detailed Description: For many years, it has been considered dogma that drug biotransformation capability is limited at best in the fetus and newborn but increases over the first year of life to levels in toddlers and young children that generally exceed adult capacity. There are several situations where examination of clinical PK data has revealed discernable patterns of drug clearance that can be attributed to developmental differences in drug biotransformation. It has become apparent that there are developmental differences in expression among drug metabolizing enzyme families (cytochromes P450 or "CYPs", etc.) Furthermore, individual drug metabolizing enzymes with in a family may have unique developmental profiles that influence the therapeutic response, desired or undesired, to a given agent.

All subjects will have a single 5 ml venous blood sample taken upon admission to the study. All subjects will be given a single oral dose of caffeine and dextromethorphan. Patients will be allowed to consume their normal age appropriate diet around the time of study drug administration and through the sample collection periods. All spontaneously voided urine will be collected for a period of 12 hours following the caffeine and dextromethorphan administration

The specific aim of this proposal is to extend the current longitudinal investigation into the preschool age group (1 to 5 years of age). The developmental profile of CYPs, 1A2, 2D6, and 3A4 will be determined by caffeine and dextromethorphan phenotyping procedures. The purpose of this study is to determine the age/developmental stage at which the CYP2 1A2, 2D6 and 3A4 activities exceed adult activities.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 121

Inclusion Criteria

Healthy children 12 months of age at enrollment

Exclusion Criteria

Height and weight ratio outside of the 5th to 100th percentile for adjusted age
Historical and/or biochemical evidence of hepatic, renal, or hematopoetic dysfunction
Historical or physical evidence of a neurologic disease/condition (excluding simple, febrile seizures)
Historical or physical evidence of any disorder associated with swallowing and/or gastrointestinal function
Concomitant therapy with drugs or other products known to alter the activity of hepatic or intestinal microsomal enzymes(e.g., inducers or inhibitors of CYPs 1A2, 2D6, and/or 3A4), P-glycoprotein or potential competing substrates for the CYPs, under study within 7 days of a scheduled phenotyping evaluation
Evidence of behavioral, developmental, or psychosocial conditions in the subjects and/or parents/caregivers that, in the opinion of the investigator, would have the potential to adversely impact the level of compliance required for successful study completion
Evidence of geographic instability (i.e., moving of primary residence within last 24 months) that would adversely influence compliance with repeated study visits necessary for completion of the protocol
Lack of telephone access required to insure adequate subject contact/follow-up
Inability to obtain written informed consent from the subject's parents/guardians

Study & Design

Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in CYP2D6 Drug Metabolism Phenotype With Age	every 6 months for 5 years	Concentrations of dextromethorphan(DM) and it's metabolite dextrorphan (DX) are quantified in urine and used to estimate the activity of cytochromes P450 2D6 using the well established DM/DX ratio. The longitudinal study design allows for changes in drug metabolism activity as a function of age which can be characterized via least squares regression where the slope of age vs. DM/DX ratio is examined for deviations from zero.
Change in CYP3A4 Drug Metabolism Phenotype With Age	every 6 months for 5 years	Concentrations of dextromethorphan (DM) metabolites 3-hydroxymorphinan (3HM) and dextrorphan (DX) are quantified in urine and used to estimate the activity of cytochrome P450 3A4 using the well established 3HM/DX ratio. The longitudinal study design allows for changes in drug metabolism activity as a function of age which can be characterized via least squares regression where the slope of age vs. 3HM/DX ratio is examined for deviations from zero.
Change in CYP1A2 Drug Metabolism Phenotype With Age	every 6 months for 5 years	Concentrations of caffeine metabolites 5-Acetylamino-6-amino-3-methyluracil (AAMU), 1-methylxanthine (1MX), 1-methyluric acid (1MU), and 1,7-dimethyluric acid (17MU) are quantified in urine and used to estimate the activity of cytochrome P450 1A2 using the well established (AAMU+1MX+1MU)/1,7U ratio. The longitudinal study design allows for changes in drug metabolism activity as a function of age which can be characterized via least squares regression where the slope of age vs. (AAMU+1MX+1MU)/1,7U ratio is examined for deviations from zero.