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Overview
The in vivo MetID platform at WuXi AppTec DMPK offers three types of metabolic studies for different experimental purposes: circulation and excreta metabolism study in animals, and clinical metabolism study. In addition, the established in vivo MetID platform has performed metabolite profiling and identification of lead compounds and drug candidates with a variety of structures, including conventional small molecules, high-polar and non-polar small molecules, natural products, nucleotides, Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs*), polysaccharides, peptides, ADCs, PDCs, oligonucleotides, etc. Sample matrices include whole blood, plasma, urine, feces, bile, tissues, etc.
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                                                            Metabolite profiles in plasma, urine, and feces of human Figure1 Result: Figure 1 are metabolite profiling and ID results of pooled human plasma, urine and feces using LC/HRMS. The results indicate that the parent drug is the major pharmacological component exposed, while multiple minor metabolites are present in plasma. Metabolite M3 and M4 (glucuronidation) and M7 (mono-oxygenation metabolite) are most likely the major metabolites in urine and feces, suggesting that the formation of M3/M4 and M7 may be major metabolic clearance pathways in human. Several minor metabolic pathways lead to minor metabolites in urine and feces. The parent drug is a major drug-related component in feces, which may be unabsorbed, excreted into bile and/or from hydrolysis of M3 and M4 and other glucuronides in feces. The parent drug is a minor drug-related component in urine, suggesting that direct excretion of the parent drug from kidney to urine is not a major clearance pathway. 
 
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Experience
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                                        16+ Years of experience 
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                                        500+ Submissions of IND applications 
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                                        2000+ Screening projects 
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                                                            Thermo Orbitrap Eclipse™ Tribrid™ 
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                                                            Thermo Orbitrap Exploris™ 480 
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                                                            Thermo Q-Exactive™ HF 
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                                                            Waters VION™ IMS QTof 
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                                                            Therno LTQ Orbitrap XL 
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                                                            Solid scintillation counter: off-line detection of radioactivity 
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                                                            On-line detection of radioactivity 
 
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                                                            Thermo Scientific™ Compound Discoverer™ 
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                                                            Thermo Scientific™ Mass Frontier™ 
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                                                            Thermo Scientific™ Metworks™ 
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                                                            Waters MetaboLynxTM 
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                                                            Mass Analytical Mass-MetaSite 
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                                                            Waters UNIFI® 
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                                                            Thermo Scientific™ Biopharma Finder™ 
 
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Reference
- 1.C. E. Hop, Z. Wang, Q. Chen, G. Kwei, Plasma-Pooling Methods to Increase Throughput for in vivo Pharmacokinetic Screening, J. Pharm. Sci., 87 (1998) 901-903. 
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