T7: toxicokinetics

8 important questions on T7: toxicokinetics

How does drug elimination look like?

To get the elimination constant you have to make a log scale to get a straight graph, this is needed to calculate Kel.


What is a PBPK model?

It is a Physiological based pharmacokinetic model (PBBK).
With this you can predict and estimate the drug circulation in the body in different compartments.

What do you need for a PBPK model?

Input:
physiological parameters
chemical parameters
kinetic constants (in vitro)

output:
model prediction for levels relevant metabolites
- at different oral doses
- in different species
- in different organs
- in different individuals
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What are the advantages of a PBK Model?


Physiologically based kinetics model:
- provide the time course of distribution to any organ or tissue
- allow estimations of the effect of changing physiological parameters
- model can predict differences in toxicokinetics between species
- different dosing regimes are easily accommodated; allow high to low dose extrapolation.

What is regulatory testing, and why testing?

It is a test to perform hazard characterisation, to set safe exposure levels for humans. It is always done before a new compound can be on the market.

Acceptable daily intake: ADI
Tolerable daily intake: TDI
A test can also be done to test for danger so that a label can be put on the product, classification and labelling.

How to analyze a dataset?

You can do it with an anova test. Which concentration is significantly different from control?

Then you get NOAEL and LOAEL:
NOAEL: No-Observed averse effect level --> the highest concentration that does not differ from control. Depending on the study design!
LOAEL: Lowest observed effect adverse level --> the lowest concentration that does differ significantly.

Another way to analyze a data set is?

Regression analysis: integrate dose response curve using all data, calculate toxicity compared to the control.

Here you get terms like EC10 and EC50. This means that you can calculate at what concentration the effect is 10%, or 50%

What are the advantages of the BMD approach?

- All the data is used in this approach, not only the measured points, but also the line inbetween
- It is independent of choice of exposure.

Cons are:
- you have to define the effect upfront and this could be difficult especially in low quantaties.

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