Lobeglitazone

Lobeglitazone Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Food Interaction and all others data.

Lobeglitazone is an antidiabetic medication from the thiazolidinedione class of drugs. It primarily functions as an insulin sensitizer by binding and activating Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPAR) gamma within fat cells. By activating PPAR-gamma and promoting the binding of insulin at fat cells, lobeglitazone thereby has been shown to reduce blood sugar levels, lower hemoglobain A1C (HbA1C) levels, and improve lipid and liver profiles . Unlike Pioglitazone, which is a dual PPAR agonist at PPAR-alpha and PPAR-gamma, Lobeglitazone is a pure PPAR-alpha agonist.

Lobeglitazone was approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (South Korea) in 2013, and is being monitored by postmarketing surveillance until 2019. Lobeglitazone is not approved for use by either the Food and Drug Administration (USA), Health Canada, or by the European Medicines Agency for use in the management of diabetes.

Lobeglitazone
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Trade Name	Lobeglitazone
Generic	Lobeglitazone
Lobeglitazone Other Names	Lobeglitazone
Type
Formula	C₂₄H₂₄N₄O₅S
Weight	Average: 480.54 Monoisotopic: 480.146741063
Protein binding	Lobeglitazone was found to bind extensively to plasma proteins (i.e., up to 99.9%) with no appreciable concentration dependency on the unbound fraction .
Groups	Experimental
Therapeutic Class
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Last Updated:	September 19, 2023 at 7:00 am

Uses

How Lobeglitazone works

Lobeglitazone acts as an insulin sensitizer by binding and activating Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPAR) gamma within fat cells. By promoting the binding of insulin at fat cells, lobeglitazone has been shown to reduce blood sugar levels, lower hemoglobain A1C (HbA1C) levels, and improve lipid and liver profiles . Unlike Pioglitazone, which is a dual PPAR agonist at PPAR-alpha and PPAR-gamma, Lobeglitazone is a pure PPAR-alpha agonist.

Toxicity

Lobeglitazone showed a similar adverse effect profile to pioglitazone, another thiazolidinedione medication from the same class. The most concerning side effects found were edema and weight gain, with no severe adverse effects. Notably, there were no observable changes to patients with heart failure, which is a concern associated with other medications of the same class .

Volume of Distribution

The steady state volume of distribution (Vss) of lobeglitazone was found to be 189–276 mL/kg. Vss was not found to vary statistically with the dose, suggesting that lobeglitazone follows linear kinetics .

Elimination Route

In rat studies, the AUC for the doses 0.5, 1, and 2 mg/kg, AUC values were determined to be 459, 514, and 481 ug min/mL respectively. Absoprtion occurs rapidly after administration, with Tmax of 67.5 and 48.8 min and a Cmax of 0.962 and 0.4.94 ug/mL following doses of 0.5 and 2 mg/kg, respectively. Absolute bioavailability after oral administration was nearly complete and apparently not affected by the dosage; 92.1% following a 0.5 mg/kg dose and 99.0% following a 2 mg/kg dose. Furthermore, the extent of LB remaining in the GI tract at 24 h was found to be negligible, with values less than 0.2% of the oral dose, suggesting that the intestinal absorption is complete in rats at the dose range studied .

Half Life

Following an intravenous dosage of 1 mg/kg, the half life was found to be 110 min .

Clearance

In rat studies, systemic clearance was found to be between 1.95 and 2.19 mL/min/kg regardless of dosage .

Elimination Route

It has been reported that the combined extent of the excretion of lobeglitazone to the bile, urine and intestine is low (less than 10% of total dose), suggesting that the major route of elimination for the drug involves its metabolism .