PMID- 37714715 OWN - NLM STAT- Publisher LR - 20230915 IS - 1521-009X (Electronic) IS - 0090-9556 (Linking) DP - 2023 Sep 15 TI - Potential and Challenges in Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling in Predicting Diarrheal Disease Impact on Oral Drug Pharmacokinetics. LID - DMD-MR-2022-000964 [pii] LID - 10.1124/dmd.122.000964 [doi] AB - Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling is a physiologically relevant approach that integrates drug-specific and system parameters to generate pharmacokinetic predictions for target populations. It has gained immense popularity for drug-drug interaction, organ impairment, and special population studies over the past two decades. However, an application of PBPK modeling with great potential remains rather overlooked - prediction of diarrheal disease impact on oral drug pharmacokinetics. Oral drug absorption is a complex process involving the interplay between physicochemical characteristics of the drug and physiological conditions in the gastrointestinal tract. Diarrhea, a condition common to numerous diseases impacting many worldwide, is associated with physiological changes in many processes critical to oral drug absorption. In this review, we outline key processes governing oral drug absorption, provide a high-level overview of key parameters for modeling oral drug absorption in PBPK models, examine how diarrheal diseases may impact these processes based on literature findings, illustrate the clinical relevance of diarrheal disease impact on oral drug absorption, and discuss the potential and challenges of applying PBPK modeling in predicting disease impacts. Significance Statement Statement Pathophysiological changes resulting from diarrheal diseases can alter important factors governing oral drug absorption, contributing to suboptimal drug exposure and treatment failure. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling is an in silico approach that has been increasingly adopted for drug-drug interaction potential, organ impairment, and special population assessment. This minireview highlights the potential and challenges of using PBPK modeling as a tool to improve our understanding of how diarrheal diseases impact oral drug pharmacokinetics. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. FAU - Zhang, Cindy X AU - Zhang CX AD - University of Washington, United States. FAU - Arnold, Samuel L M AU - Arnold SLM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8290-2347 AD - University of Washington, United States slarnold@uw.edu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230915 PL - United States TA - Drug Metab Dispos JT - Drug metabolism and disposition: the biological fate of chemicals JID - 9421550 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - diarrhea OT - physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling/PBPK EDAT- 2023/09/16 05:41 MHDA- 2023/09/16 05:41 CRDT- 2023/09/15 21:43 PHST- 2023/08/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/05/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/08/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/09/16 05:41 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/16 05:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/15 21:43 [entrez] AID - dmd.122.000964 [pii] AID - 10.1124/dmd.122.000964 [doi] PST - aheadofprint SO - Drug Metab Dispos. 2023 Sep 15:DMD-MR-2022-000964. doi: 10.1124/dmd.122.000964.