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ReviewBritish journal of pharmacology2020

Timing in drug absorption and disposition: The past, present, and future of chronopharmacokinetics.

Joana Bicker, Gilberto Alves, Amílcar Falcão, Ana Fortuna

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Review in British journal of pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joana BickerLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7500-1671
Gilberto AlvesCICS-UBI-Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4213-0714
Amílcar FalcãoLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-3854-6549
Ana FortunaLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-6981-6639
University of Coimbra · PTUniversity of Beira Interior · PT

Funding

European Regional Development FundFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-030752Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030478
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The importance of drug dosing time in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and toxicity is receiving increasing attention from the scientific community. In spite of mounting evidence that circadian oscillations affect drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME), there remain many unanswered questions in this field and, occasionally, conflicting experimental results. Such data arise not only from translational difficulties caused by interspecies differences but also from variability in study design and a lack of understanding of how the circadian clock affects physiological factors that strongly influence ADME, namely, the expression and activity of drug transporters. Hence, the main goal of this review is to provide an updated analysis of the role of the circadian rhythm in drug absorption, distribution across blood-tissue barriers, metabolism in hepatic and extra-hepatic tissues, and hepatobiliary and renal excretion. It is expected that the research suggestions proposed here will contribute to a tissue-targeted and time-targeted pharmacotherapy.

Indexed as

Circadian ClocksPharmaceutical PreparationsChronopharmacokineticsCircadian RhythmLiverPharmacokineticsPharmaceutical Preparations

Identifiers

PMID32056195
PMCPMC7174881
OpenAlexW3006266588

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.