Affiliation:
1. Department of Clinical Chemistry, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
2. Crosfield Ltd, Warrington, UK
Abstract
Abstract
The currently available phosphate binders are relatively inefficient and suffer from clinical side-effects of increased absorption of calcium and aluminium and the diarrhoea-inducing effects of magnesium. A new class of compounds based on mixed metal hydroxides has been developed and evaluated for their potential as phosphate binders. The mixed metal hydroxides were prepared using a standard procedure for hydrotalcite (Al2Mg6(OH)16. CO3. 4H2O) by substituting Fe3+ for Al3+ with Mg3+ or Ca2+ as the divalent metal ion. Phosphate precipitation (binding) was examined at different pH values in aqueous solution and in various food mixtures in comparison with hydrotalcite, Al(OH)3, CaCO3 and Mg(OH)2 on the same weight-to-weight basis. A series of compounds with differing ratios of metal ions (Fe:Mg/Ca 1:2 or 1:3) gave analytically similar ratios to those predicted from the initial amounts added. CTFeCa bound > 90% phosphate in aqueous solution compared with 65% binding with CTFeMg, 85% binding with Mg(OH)2, and less than 30% binding for CaCO3 and Al(OH)3. The mixed metal compounds also bound up to 80 % phosphate in various food matrices, which was relatively independent of changes in pH, compared with Mg(OH)2, where binding decreased from 85% at pH 3.0 to 25% at pH 8.0. Al(OH)3 and CaCO3 were relatively ineffective phosphate binders under all the conditions tested. The mixed metal hydroxides compounds show considerable promise as phosphate binders over those currently available and warrant further patient-based in-vivo testing.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Pharmaceutical Science,Pharmacology
Cited by
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