
AbstractAficamten, a cardiac myosin inhibitor, is being developed for the treatment of patients with symptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The purpose of this study was to determine the absorption, metabolism, and excretion of aficamten. Eight healthy male participants received a single oral dose of 20 mg aficamten (containing approximately 100 μCi of radiocarbon). Blood, urine, and feces samples were collected up to a maximum of Day 26. The pharmacokinetics of aficamten were characterized by moderate absorption, with a median tmax of 2.0 h postdose. The median t1/2 of aficamten was 99.6 h with similar t1/2 observed for metabolites and total radioactivity in plasma and whole blood. The overall total recovery of administered total radioactivity was 89.7% with 57.7% of the dose recovered in feces and 32.0% in urine. The main circulating metabolites in plasma included monohydroxylated metabolites M1a (CK‐3834282) and M1b (CK‐3834283) accounting for 10.5% and 36.4% of the total radioactivity AUC both with a median tmax of 5 h. The other major plasma metabolite was M5 (an oxygen‐linked glucuronide conjugate of M1a), which accounted for 10.3% of the total plasma radioactivity exposure, with a tmax of 24 h. In urine, M5 was the most abundant metabolite with 8.02% total radioactive dose (TRD), followed by M1a and M1b with 6.16% and 2.85% TRD, respectively; however, there were no metabolites in urine observed at >10% of dose. The major metabolite in feces was M18 representing 44.1% of the radioactive dose. These findings indicated that aficamten was eliminated by metabolism, and to a minor extent, by fecal excretion of unchanged aficamten with renal excretion playing a minor role. Feces were the principal route of excretion of the radioactive dose.
Male, Adult, aficamten, Administration, Oral, RM1-950, Middle Aged, Healthy Volunteers, Feces, Young Adult, distribution, Humans, excretion, Original Article, biotransformation, Therapeutics. Pharmacology, absorption, metabolism, Cardiac Myosins, Biotransformation
Male, Adult, aficamten, Administration, Oral, RM1-950, Middle Aged, Healthy Volunteers, Feces, Young Adult, distribution, Humans, excretion, Original Article, biotransformation, Therapeutics. Pharmacology, absorption, metabolism, Cardiac Myosins, Biotransformation
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