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| Year : 1997 | Volume
: 29
| Issue : 4 | Page : 262-265 |
Effect of dietary fat on tissue disposition of clofazimine in mice receiving the drug orally as suspension in oils
A Mathur, K Venkatesan, Sreevatsa, KB Kannan, KV Desikan
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A Mathur
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Objective: To evaluate the effect of dietary fats on the tissue disposition of clofazimine in mice receiving the drug orally as suspension in oil(s).
Methods: Forty-five Balb/C mice were fed with either laboratory made fat-restricted diet or this diet supplemented to a fat content of 10% (w/w) with mustard oil-groundnut oil/vegetable ghee and administered clofazimine suspension in mustard oil/groundnut oil/lard oil orally at a daily dose of 50 'g for seven consecutive days. Four hours after the last daily dose the mice were sacrificed, tissues collected and clofazimine content estimated by spectrophotometric methods.
Results: The drug was found accumulated in greater amounts in mesentric lymph nodes, mesentric fat, lungs, spleen, liver, kidney and small intestine and to a lesser extent in heart, muscle and tail. Most tissues from mice fed with fat-supplemented diet presented significantly more levels of clofazimine (P<0.05). The mean ñ SD cumulative tissue clofazimine content in mice fed with fat supplemented diet ranged from 41.2 ñ 6.38 to 43.4 ñ 2.10 'g/g while it ranged from 34.6 ñ 3.16 to 37.7 ñ 2.97 'g/g in mice fed with fat restricted diet. However, the variety of oil/fat used either in the diet or drug suspensions failed to make any significant difference in drug availability in tissues.
Conclusion: An extrapolation of these findings to human beings suggest that clofazimine may be administered to the patients along with or after any fatty meal for better absorption and tissue deposition.
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