Dormán György, Buchholcz Balázs, Puskás István, Szabó Pál, Varga Erzsébet, Szente Lajos, Keserű György M, Darvas Ferenc
Innostudio, Inc., Záhony u. 7., Budapest, 1031, Hungary.
Institute of Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3., Budapest, 1111, Hungary.
Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 4;15(1):4182. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-81428-5.
Stability assessment of drugs in space is particularly important for future missions. In space there are multiple factors, such as the variability of the conditions (radiation, microgravity, vacuum etc.) that could affect the reliability and reproducibility of the data. Therefore, we investigated the stability of an anti-Covid drug formulation, Remdesivir (RDV) sulfobutylether-beta-cyclodextrin (SBECD) complex, in two separate flight experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). While HPLC/MS studies revealed no degradation of the cyclodextrin excipient in any of the samples investigated in both missions, RDV purity analysis of the RDV/SBECD complex after the first mission revealed different stabilities and altered degradation in space and on Earth. This latter interesting finding was not supported by the second mission, where no differences in the drug stabilities were identified. This anomaly highlighted the importance of standardization together with increased control of the variable parameters during the entire space missions and the terrestrial control experiments.
药物在太空中的稳定性评估对未来的任务尤为重要。在太空中存在多种因素,如条件的可变性(辐射、微重力、真空等),这些因素可能会影响数据的可靠性和可重复性。因此,我们在国际空间站(ISS)上的两项独立飞行实验中,研究了一种抗新冠药物制剂瑞德西韦(RDV)磺丁基醚-β-环糊精(SBECD)复合物的稳定性。虽然高效液相色谱/质谱研究表明,在这两项任务中所研究的任何样品中,环糊精辅料均未降解,但第一次任务后对RDV/SBECD复合物进行的RDV纯度分析显示,该复合物在太空和地球上的稳定性不同,降解情况也有所改变。后一个有趣的发现并未得到第二次任务的支持,在第二次任务中未发现药物稳定性存在差异。这一异常情况凸显了在整个太空任务和地面对照实验过程中,标准化以及加强对可变参数控制的重要性。