a question about unstable baseline for a soluble antibody target
Dear NMusers,
I am trying to develop a TMDD model for an antibody against its soluble target
in a monkey study. I have observations of the target before a single antibody
IV bolus dose. My model has two compartments for antibody and target
respectively. The challenging part is that the baseline levels of the target
before the antibody dose increased instead of being stable. So I am trying to
model the changing target baseline level. In my data file, the antibody dose is
on Time=4 (d) instead of Time 0 (d). I have observations of target from day 0
to day 4. My question is that if it is possible to let NONMEM compute only the
differential equation for target from day 0 to day 4 and compute both
differential equations for antibody and target after day 4. If yes, how should
I set up initial values for the two differential equations? Any suggestion and
help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Best,
Xiaofeng