Pharmacokinetic Study of Single-Dose Modified Release Glipizide in Healthy Volunteers

This is an in vivo study designed to acquire human gastrointestinal (GI) physiology data from healthy subjects which are necessary for mechanistic absorption model development. Each subject will be asked to complete a single dosing phase. The dosing phase will include collection of fluids from stomach and gastrointestinal (GI) tract through intubation (putting a GI tube from mouth into stomach and intestines), blood, urine and feces, and measure glipizide concentrations. The objectives of this study are, as follows: Objective #1: To characterize the plasma, gastrointestinal fluid, urine, and feces concentrations of glipizide after oral administration of modified release formulations; Objective #2: To compare the pharmacokinetics of glipizide between the two modified release formulations; Objective #3: To collect gastrointestinal physiology data in volunteers receiving an oral MR formulation of glipizide. These in vivo results will be used to validate in vitro dissolution methods and to support computational and mathematical modeling efforts, in order to develop an oral drug product optimization process that may be applied to future drugs to maximize oral drug safety and efficacy.