PAMPA

Overview

Pion PAMPA has three key variants to support the permeability classification of API's; GIT lipid for gastrointestinal permeability of oral therapies using the Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS), BBB lipid for blood-brain barrier permeability in the CNS classification system and skin PAMPA for dermal/transdermal penetration potential.

Pion PAMPA can be used for preformulation excipient screening:

Comparative flux assay for smart excipient selection to enhance GI absorption
Comparative flux assay to select excipients for dermal/transdermal formulations.

Pion skin PAMPA offers a further ability for final formulation screening; comparing the performance of topical and transdermal formulations to rank order the permeability potential of those formulations.

Applications

PAMPA has a wide range of popular applications, each delivering robust and reliable results:

Study the simple solvent/excipient effect on flux
Measure passive permeability of compounds
Find the best excipients to help dermal absorption
Perform all evaluations using only modest sample quantities
Evaluate or compare complex formulations

Our PAMPA Explorer Command Software is easy to interface, and is compatible with some commercially available UV readers and liquid handling robots.

Features

Smart

PAMPA gives you the ability to screen the permeability of newly discovered API's using a simple and robust model.

For example, PAMPA simulates the pH gradient between the gastrointestinal tract and blood plasma, which can affect the transport of ionizable molecules. In order to model transport conditions in the blood, the acceptor contains a scavenger binding molecule that helps to keep the free concentration of the API close to zero, leading to more accurate results.

Cost-effective

While rodent in vivo and in situ studies of the kinetics of drug uptake across the gastrointestinal interface, blood brain barrier, and via the skin are valuable assessment tools, they are relatively expensive and time consuming. PAMPA can reduce the number of animal studies using a system which mimics many of the properties of all these membranes.

Time-saving

Pion’s high throughput PAMPA method gives researchers a test system that is not only highly predictive of the human skin barrier, the blood-brain barrier, and the gastrointestinal interface but also expeditious. Tests can be conducted manually or on robotic platforms for added flexibility.

Pioneering

We have developed a protocol on Double Sink PAMPA platform to study the effect of excipients on the solubility and permeability of APIs in a single assay. The gathered data could be used in early as-sessment of excipient influenced and pH-dependent GIT absorption. This could be beneficial in prioritizing and perhaps minimizing the number of animal tests needed.

Resources

Drug ionization and physicochemical profiling

Investigation of the Efficacy of Transdermal Penetration Enhancers Through the Use of Human Skin and a Skin Mimic Artificial Membrane

P-Glycoprotein Deficient Mouse in situ Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability and its Prediction using an in combo PAMPA Model

The permeation of amphoteric drugs through artificial membranes - an in combo absorption model based on paracellular and transmembrane permeability

Coexistence of passive and active carrier-mediated uptake processes in drug transport: a more balanced view

Study on permeability enhancing effect of new ceramide-analogues by PAMPA method

Absorption-Excipient-pH Classification Gradient Maps: Sparingly-Soluble Drugs and the pH Partition Hypothesis

Membrane-water partitioning, membrane permeability, and baseline toxicity of the parasiticides ivermectin, albendazole, and morantel

Permeation of permanently charged molecules through artificial membranes - influence of physicochemical properties

PAMPA—critical factors for better predictions of absorption

PAMPA - a Drug Absorption in vitro Model. 13. Chemical Selectivity due to Membrane Hydrogen Bonding: in combo Comparisons of HDM-, DOPC-, and DS-PAMPA

HT solubility and permeability: MAD-PAMPA analysis. (in Pharmacokinetic Profiling in Drug Reasearch: Biological, Physicochemical, and Computational Strategies)

PAMPA-Excipient Classification Gradient Maps

Caco-2 Permeability of Weakly Basic Drugs Predicted with the Double-Sink PAMPA pKa flux Method

Advances in Screening for Membrane Permeability: High-Resolution PAMPA for Medicinal Chemists

The Rise of PAMPA

PAMPA - a drug absorption in vitro model. 7. Comparing rat in situ, Caco-2, and PAMPA permeability of fluoroquinolones

Absorption using the PAMPA Approach (in Optimization in Drug Discovery: In Vitro Methods)

PAMPA - a Drug Absorption in vitro Model. 8. Apparent Filter Porosity and the Unstirred Water Layer

PAMPA - a Drug Absorption in vitro Model. 11. Matching the in vivo Unstirred Water Layer Thickness by Individual-Well Stirring in Microtitre Plates

Acid-Base Cosolvent Method for Determining Aqueous Permeability of Amiodarone, Itraconazole, Tamoxifen, Terfenadine and Other Very Insoluble Molecules

In vitro permeability of poorly aqueous soluble compounds using different solubilizers in the PAMPA assay with liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry detection

PAMPA - a drug absorption in vitro model. 5. Unstirred water layer in iso-pH mapping assays and pKa flux - optimized design (pOD-PAMPA)

In vitro trans-monolayer permeability calculations: often forgotten assumption

High throughput physicochemical profiling for drug discovery

Permeability through DOPC/dodecane membranes: measurement and LFER modelling

A comparison of the in vitro permeation of niacinamide in mammalian skin and in the Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeation Assay (PAMPA) model

Studying transdermal patches using Skin PAMPA

Studying semi-solid formulations of diclofenac using Skin PAMPA

Application of Skin Pampa™ to Cosmetic Solvent Screening

Using Skin-PAMPA For Transdermal Patch Testing

Novel HT Method for Parallel Excipient/Vehicle Formulation Studies

Assessment of Transdermal Penetration Enhancement by Topical Pharmaceutical Excipients Using Skin PAMPA Method

Application of Skin PAMPA to Differentiate Between Topical Pharmaceutical Formulations of Ibuprofen

Skin-PAMPA: Fast Prediction of Skin Penetration

Skin-PAMPA: A New Method for Fast Prediction of Skin Penetration

Developing Skin PAMPA for Transdermal Patches

Evaluation of Optimized Caco-2 Permeability Measurements

Human Jejunal Permeability Predicted from Caco-2 Assay - A Biophysical Model Applied to Fluoroquinolone Antimicrobials

Very Thin PAMPA Membranes Indicate Higher Antipyrene Permeability but are Fragile and Contain Leaky Water Pores

Prediction of in situ Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability using BBB PAMPA Model

Drug Permeation in Skin PAMPA and Franz Cell Model

Penetration Enhancer Effect of Sucrose Esters

Novel in vitro PK (non-animal PK) Assay for Excipient/Vehicle Formulation Studies

Prediction of Caco-2 pH-Dependent Permeability based on High Quality in vitro Training Set

Consumables

GIT Test Compounds

110008

Smart

Cost-effective

Time-saving

Pioneering

GIT Test Compounds

Plate Lids, Pack of 10

Deepwell Plates Pack of 5

Stock Plate Pack of 10

Collector Plate (400 uL) Qty 10

Filter Plate Pack of 10

Test Tube 10 mL- 50

Test Tube 5 mL-50

Disposable Tips (200 uL) 1 box=Qty 960

Disposable Tips (20 uL) 1 box=Qty 960

Test Compounds Solubility

Collector Plate (500 uL) Qty 10

Acceptor Sink Buffer 250mL

Acceptor Sink Buffer (1L)

PRISMA HT 50mL 1

PRISMA LS 50 mL

PCR Plate, Pack of 5

Coated Stirrers (Quantity 1000) for use with Gut-Box

PRISMA HC 50mL

Stirwell Sandwich Pack of 5

High Profile Reservoir, Single Trough, Pack of 5

Low Profile Reservoir, Single Trough, Pack of 5

High Profile Reservoir 12 Trough, Pack of 5

Low Profile Reservoir 12 Trough, Pack of 2

UV Plates Pack of 10

Storage Plate

GIT-0 Lipid Pack of 5

BBB-1 Lipid Solution

BBB Test Compounds

Brain Sink Buffer BSB (250mL)

Skin Precoated Plate, Pack of 5

Skin Test Compounds

Skin Precoated Plate with Hydration Solution

Hydration Solution 250mL

Acceptor Sink Buffer (1L)

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