Abstract
The natural selection of anticoagulant resistant rats has resulted in a need for an alternative to anticoagulant rodenticides which differs in both active ingredient and in the method of dosing. Cholecalciferol toxicity to rodents using the dermal route is demonstrated using a variety of penetration enhancing formulations in two in-vitro models and finally in-vivo. A 1 ml dose of 50/50 (v/v) DMSO/ethanol containing 15% (v/v) PEG 200 and 20% (w/v) cholecalciferol was judged as 'sufficiently effective' in line with the European Union's Biocidal Products Regulation (No. 528/2012) during in-vivo studies. This dose was found to cause 100% mortality in a rat population in 64.4 h (±22 h).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 101-109 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | International Journal of Pharmaceutics |
Volume | 487 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
Early online date | 30 Mar 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Jun 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).Funding: European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme managed by REA Research Executive Agency http://ec.europa.eu/rea (FP7/2007-2013) under grant Project Reference 286852.
Keywords
- BPR
- cholecalciferol
- efficacy
- regulation No. 528/2012
- transdermal
- rodenticide