To evaluate if safinamide at the steady state, obtained after multiple 100 mg once a day administrations, has an effect on the pharmacokinetics of rosuvastatin, concomitantly administered as a single 20 mg dose, with respect to the pharmacokinetics of 20 mg rosuvastatin administered alone.
Xadago® SmPC reports that safinamide may transiently inhibit BCRP, therefore a time interval of 5 h should be kept between dosing of safinamide and medicinal products that are BCRP substrates with a Tmax ≤ 2 h (e.g. pitavastatin, pravastatin, ciprofloxacin, methotrexate, topotecan, diclofenac or glyburide). Following a specific request of FDA, the present interaction study in healthy male and female volunteers will be conducted in order to determine if multiple dose administration of safinamide with the BCRP substrate rosuvastatin alters the plasma exposure of rosuvastatin in vivo. Orally administered rosuvastatin, a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor, developed for the treatment of dyslipidaemia, represents a sensitive probe to assess the magnitude of BCRP inhibition. In PK trials in healthy volunteers, rosuvastatin Tmax ranged from 1.7 to 5 h after administration of 10-80 mg doses.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
24
Safinamide will be administered as follows: * Days 5-11: 100 mg safinamide (one Xadago® tablet), once a day * Day 12: a single dose of 100 mg safinamide (one Xadago® tablet), immediately followed by a single dose of 20 mg rosuvastatin calcium (one Crestor® tablet) * Days 13-15: 100 mg safinamide (one Xadago® tablet) once a day The medication will be orally administered in the morning, at 8:00±1h, under fasting conditions, with 240 mL (total volume) of still mineral water.
Rosuvastatin will be administered as follows: \- Day 1: a single dose of 20 mg rosuvastatin calcium (one Crestor® tablet)
CROSS Research SA, Phase I Unit
Arzo, Canton Ticino, Switzerland
Transporter-Mediated Interaction (TMI) between safinamide (investigational drug) and rosuvastatin (selected BCRP substrate) defined as ANOVA comparison between AUC of treatments (co-administration / rosuvastatin alone)
Transporter-Mediated Interaction (TMI) between safinamide (investigational drug) and rosuvastatin (selected BCRP substrate) evaluated after the FDA - CDER Draft Guidance on Drug Interaction Studies of February 2012. Blood samples will be collected at different time points up to 96 h and the concentrations of rosuvastatin will be measured after single administration of a 20 mg dose with and without co-administration of multiple 100 mg doses of safinamide in a cross-over design. The Area Under the Curve (AUC), calculated with a non-compartmental method will be used as metrics for the plasma rosuvastatin extent of exposure. The parametric point estimators (PEs) for the ratios of treatments (co-administration / rosuvastatin alone) and the 90% confidence intervals will be calculated using the adjusted least squares means (LSMEANS) from an Analysis of variance (ANOVA) on rosuvastatin AUC. Presence of a TMI will be defined as an upper limit of the 90% confidence interval above 125.00.
Time frame: 96 hours
Transporter-Mediated Interaction (TMI) between safinamide (investigational drug) and rosuvastatin (selected BCRP substrate) defined as ANOVA comparison between Cmax of treatments (co-administration / rosuvastatin alone)
Transporter-Mediated Interaction (TMI) between safinamide (investigational drug) and rosuvastatin (selected BCRP substrate). Blood samples will be collected at different time points up to 96 h and the concentrations of rosuvastatin will be measured after single administration of a 20 mg dose with and without co-administration of multiple 100 mg doses of safinamide in a cross-over design. The Peak Concentration (Cmax), calculated with a non-compartmental method will be used as one of the metrics for the plasma rosuvastatin rate of exposure. Secondary criteria for TMI presence will be the same as for the AUC.
Time frame: 96 hours
Transporter-Mediated Interaction (TMI) between safinamide (investigational drug) and rosuvastatin (selected BCRP substrate) defined as as non-parametric comparison between Tmax of treatments (co-administration / rosuvastatin alone)
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\- Day 12: a single dose of 20 mg rosuvastatin calcium (one Crestor® tablet) immediately after the safinamide administration
Transporter-Mediated Interaction (TMI) between safinamide (investigational drug) and rosuvastatin (selected BCRP substrate). Blood samples will be collected at different time points up to 96 h and the concentrations of rosuvastatin will be measured after single administration of a 20 mg dose with and without co-administration of multiple 100 mg doses of safinamide in a cross-over design. The Time to the Peak Concentration (Tmax), calculated with a non-compartmental method will be used as one of the metrics for the plasma rosuvastatin rate of exposure. Secondary criteria for TMI presence interaction will be a significant p-value (i.e. \>0.05) obtained from a non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test on the Tmax parameter.
Time frame: 96 hours
Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability]
Treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs), vital signs (blood pressure and heart rate), body weight, electrocardiogram and laboratory parameters will be considered for safety and tolerability assessments.
Time frame: 96 hours