EFFECT OF HEPARIN OR SALICYLATE INFUSION ON SERUM-PROTEIN BINDING AND ON CONCENTRATIONS OF PHENYTOIN IN SERUM, BRAIN AND CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID OF RATS

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 219  (1) , 42-48
Abstract
Whether administration of heparin caused displacement of an acidic drug from serum protein binding sites in vitro as suggested by several groups of investigators was studied. Rats were injected and infused with phenytoin to produce steady-state serum concentrations of .apprx. 25 .mu.g/ml. After 2 h, some animals also received injections and infusions of heparin or salicylic acid. Salicylic acid (.alpha. 300 .mu.g/ml), a classical inhibitor of phenytoin protein binding, reduced the steady-state serum concentration of total (free plus bound) phenytoin but had no significant effect on the steady-state serum concentration of free phenytoin or on the concentrations of phenytoin in CSF and brain. The concentrations of phenytoin in CSF were almost identical to the free phenytoin concentrations in serum. Similar effects were observed with respect to 5-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-5-phenylhydantoin and were due to displacement of this major metabolite of phenytoin from serum protein binding sites by salicylate. Heparin administration caused an apparent increase of the steady-state plasma concentration of free phenytoin when determined as the product of the concentration of total phenytoin and the free fraction measured by in vitro equilibrium dialysis. Since heparin treatment had no significant effect on the total concentrations of phenytoin in plasma, CSF and brain, the apparent displacement of phenytoin from plasma proteins occurred in vitro, after collection of blood samples from heparinized animals.

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