Dear NONMEM Users Group
I have been asked to help with modelling saliva concentration data from a
tracer-tracee study of an endogenous substance. Human volunteers were given an
oral dose of the labelled tracer substance and a series of saliva samples were
collected over the following 24 hours.
* The dependent variable is in the form of a ratio (unitless) of the
tracer to tracee (endogenous) saliva concentrations.
* The dose amount (micromoles) and time of dose are known. The dose is
given as the oxidised form of the measured compound.
Modelling it as a 2-compartment mammillary model with a depot compartment
produces reasonable plots but of course, the output data is not useful.
My questions are:
1) How does one work with a ratio as a DV and make sense of the output data?
2) Would a metabolite model be a suitable way of dealing with the dose being in
a different chemical form to that measured? Is there a better way?
3) Can anyone guide me towards similar published work?
Grateful for any advice. With thanks and all best wishes
Ann
Dr Ann Rigby-Jones
Lecturer in Pharmacology, Anaesthesia Research Group
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine & Dentistry
Website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/peninsula
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tracer-tracee kinetics
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Ann
There is a great book on this by David Foster. It is sold on Amazon but is
kind of expensive.
http://www.amazon.com/Tracer-Kinetics-Biomedical-Research-Model/dp/0306464276
I think this could be an invaluable resource for you.
pete
Peter L. Bonate, PhD
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Global Head - Pharmacokinetics, Modeling, and Simulation
Global Clinical Pharmacology & Exploratory Development
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Behalf Of Ann Rigby-Jones
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 5:23 AM
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Subject: [NMusers] tracer-tracee kinetics
Dear NONMEM Users Group
I have been asked to help with modelling saliva concentration data from a
tracer-tracee study of an endogenous substance. Human volunteers were given an
oral dose of the labelled tracer substance and a series of saliva samples were
collected over the following 24 hours.
* The dependent variable is in the form of a ratio (unitless) of the
tracer to tracee (endogenous) saliva concentrations.
* The dose amount (micromoles) and time of dose are known. The dose is
given as the oxidised form of the measured compound.
Modelling it as a 2-compartment mammillary model with a depot compartment
produces reasonable plots but of course, the output data is not useful.
My questions are:
1) How does one work with a ratio as a DV and make sense of the output data?
2) Would a metabolite model be a suitable way of dealing with the dose being in
a different chemical form to that measured? Is there a better way?
3) Can anyone guide me towards similar published work?
Grateful for any advice. With thanks and all best wishes
Ann
Dr Ann Rigby-Jones
Lecturer in Pharmacology, Anaesthesia Research Group
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine & Dentistry
Website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/peninsula
[Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/pupsmd [Twitter]
http://www.twitter.com/pupsmd
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