• DOI:10.1080/107175401316906883
Corpus ID: 2356254

Altered pharmacokinetics and liver targetability of methotrexate by conjugation with lactosylated albumins.

@article{Han2001AlteredPA,
  title={Altered pharmacokinetics and liver targetability of methotrexate by conjugation with lactosylated albumins.},
  author={J H Han and S. J. Lim and M K Lee and C K Kim},
  journal={Drug delivery},
  year={2001},
  volume={8 3},
  pages={
          125-34
        }
}

• J. Han, S. J. Lim, +1 author C. Kim
• Published 2001
• Medicine, Chemistry
• Drug delivery

To enhance the liver targetability, methotrexate (MTX) was conjugated with albumin previously substituted with varying content of lactose (L0, L5, and L24). The uptake of MTX by rat hepatocytes in vitro increased according to the increase in the lactose content on the albumin conjugates. The MTX level in the plasma and various organs was determined by counting the radioactivity of [3H]MTX and by HPLC assay, separately, to monitor the in vivo fate of MTX not only as total, regardless of forms of… Expand