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Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Dec 8;9:1033980. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.1033980. eCollection 2022.

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Vestibular side effects such as dizziness and vertigo can be a limitation for some antibiotics commonly used to treat acne, rosacea, and other dermatology indications.

OBJECTIVE: Unlike minocycline, which is a second-generation tetracycline, sarecycline, a narrow-spectrum third-generation tetracycline-class agent approved to treat acne vulgaris, has demonstrated low rates of vestibular-related adverse events in clinical trials. In this work, we evaluate the brain-penetrative and lipophilic attributes of sarecycline in 2 non-clinical studies and discuss potential associations with vestibular adverse events.

METHODS: Rats received either intravenous sarecycline or minocycline (1.0 mg/kg). Blood-brain penetrance was measured at 1, 3, and 6 h postdosing. In another analysis, the lipophilicity of sarecycline, minocycline, and doxycycline was measured via octanol/water and chloroform/water distribution coefficients (logD) at pH 3.5, 5.5, and 7.4.

RESULTS: Unlike minocycline, sarecycline was not detected in brain samples postdosing. In the octanol/water solvent system, sarecycline had a numerically lower lipophilicity profile than minocycline and doxycycline at pH 5.5 and 7.4.

CONCLUSION: The reduced blood-brain penetrance and lipophilicity of sarecycline compared with other tetracyclines may explain low rates of vestibular-related adverse events seen in clinical trials.

PMID:36569144 | PMC:PMC9773825 | DOI:10.3389/fmed.2022.1033980

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