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2003: Sarangapani Ramesh; Teeguarden Justin; Andersen Melvin E; Reitz Richard H; Plotzke Kathleen P
Route-specific differences in distribution characteristics of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane in rats: analysis using PBPK models.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology 2003;71(1):41-52.
Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D(4)) is used in selected consumer products and has a potential for human exposure from multiple routes. Here we develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model to describe the tissue dosimetry, plasma concentration, and clearance in the rat following inhalation and dermal, oral, and iv exposure. An initial multiroute PBPK model, based on a previously published inhalation PBPK model for D(4), provided excellent fits to the observed concentration time course of D(4) metabolites in urine and D(4) exhalation rate following dermal exposures. However, the pharmacokinetics of D(4), following oral and iv exposure, were sensitive to the mode of entry into the blood compartment. A refined model, describing delivery of D(4) from the GI tract to the nonexchangeable/deep blood compartment, provided the best fits to observed plasma D(4), exhaled D(4), and D(4) metabolites excreted in the urine following oral exposure. Pharmacokinetics following iv administration was best described by delivery of D(4) directly into the deep blood compartment, possibly reflecting a kinetically identifiable characteristic of the administration of D(4) as an emulsion for the intravenous route of exposure. This model-based analysis indicates that the pharmacokinetics of D(4) delivered by the inhalation or dermal routes is similar, and is different from the iv or oral delivery routes.

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