Modeling enterohepatic recycling of a drug

From: Jonathan Mochel Date: January 25, 2012 technical Source: mail-archive.com
Dear all, Would anyone know a suitable way of modeling enterohepatic recycling (EHR) of a drug using Nonmem 7? So far, I've tried to dose an additional amount of drug in a separate compartment from the depot compartment (CMT==1) and introduced a lag time (ALAG) to account for the 2nd peak concentration due to EHR. I used ADVAN5 (general linear model) and ADVAN6 (ODEs) but both routines led to non-reasonable parameter estimates or to non-successful runs. Many thanks in advance for any feedback on that matter. Best regards Jonathan Dr. Jonathan Mochel BVSc, MSc, Dr. vet. Medicine Resident of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology (ECVPT) DMPK & Bioanalytics Novartis Animal Health Modeling & Simulation Novartis Campus Werk St. Johann 27.6.022 CH-4002 Basel SWITZERLAND Phone +41 61 696 9077 Mobile +41 78 639 4117 Fax +41 61 324 5874 Mail [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [cid:[email protected]] <<inline: image001.gif>> <<inline: image002.gif>>