Department of Gastroenterology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
J Crohns Colitis. 2022 Jul 14;16(6):884-892. doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjab208.
Therapeutic drug monitoring is used to guide anti-tumour necrosis factor [TNF] therapy. However, the associations between serum drug levels [SDL], TNF-bound, and free anti-TNF in the target tissue are incompletely defined. We aimed to assess the interactions between these parameters in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] patients.
ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT: assays [ELISA assays] were used to detect free drug and TNF-drug complexes in intestinal tissues. Concurrent SDL, anti-drug antibodies [ADA], pharmacotherapy, clinical response, endoscopic appearance, and histological severity were determined. Comparisons between anti-TNFs and paired inflamed/non-inflamed tissue were performed. Variables were correlated and potential interactions detected using multivariate analysis.
A total of 95 biopsies taken from 49 anti-TNF treated IBD patients [26 receiving infliximab and 23 adalimumab] were studied. Free drug levels were higher in inflamed compared with non-inflamed paired specimens. Tissue free-drug and TNF-drug complexes levels were higher in adalimumab-treated patients. In adalimumab-treated patients, SDL were correlated with free drug, but not TNF-drug complex levels, in both inflamed and non-inflamed segments. In infliximab-treated patients, higher SDL were associated with the presence of tissue free drug in both inflamed and non-inflamed segments, whereas TNF-drug complexes were mostly detected in non-inflamed but not in inflamed tissue. In the presence of ADA, neither free drug nor TNF-infliximab complexes were measured in the tissue. Tissue levels did not correlate well with clinical, endoscopic, or histological scores.
SDL correlated with tissue free drug levels; however, different dynamics were observed for TNF-drug complex levels. Infliximab and adalimumab tissue drug dynamics differ. Better understanding of these interactions may allow future therapeutic optimisation.
治疗药物监测用于指导抗肿瘤坏死因子(TNF)治疗。然而,血清药物水平(SDL)、TNF 结合物和靶组织中游离抗 TNF 之间的关联尚未完全明确。本研究旨在评估炎症性肠病(IBD)患者中这些参数之间的相互关系。
酶联免疫吸附测定(ELISA)用于检测肠道组织中的游离药物和 TNF-药物复合物。同时测定 SDL、抗药物抗体(ADA)、药物治疗、临床反应、内镜表现和组织学严重程度。比较了不同抗 TNF 药物与配对的炎症/非炎症组织之间的差异。采用多元分析对变量进行相关性和潜在相互作用的检测。
共研究了 49 例接受抗 TNF 治疗的 IBD 患者(26 例接受英夫利昔单抗治疗,23 例接受阿达木单抗治疗)的 95 个活检标本。与配对的非炎症组织相比,炎症组织中的游离药物水平更高。与英夫利昔单抗治疗组相比,阿达木单抗治疗组的组织游离药物和 TNF-药物复合物水平更高。在阿达木单抗治疗组中,SDL 与炎症和非炎症肠段的游离药物相关,但与 TNF-药物复合物水平无关。在英夫利昔单抗治疗组中,较高的 SDL 与炎症和非炎症肠段组织中游离药物的存在相关,而 TNF-英夫利昔单抗复合物主要在非炎症组织中检测到,而不是在炎症组织中。ADA 存在时,在组织中未检测到游离药物或 TNF-英夫利昔单抗复合物。组织水平与临床、内镜或组织学评分相关性不佳。
SDL 与组织游离药物水平相关;然而,TNF-药物复合物水平的动态变化不同。英夫利昔单抗和阿达木单抗在组织中的药物动力学不同。更好地了解这些相互作用可能有助于未来的治疗优化。