title: Semiparametric analysis of non-steady-state pharmacodynamic data.
abstract: We present an approach to the analysis of pharmacodynamic (PD) data arising from non-steady-state experiments, meant to be used when only PD data, not pharmacokinetic (PK) data, are available. The approach allows estimation of the steady-state relationship between drug input and effect. The analysis is based on a model describing the time dependence of drug effect (E) on (unobserved) drug concentration (Ce) in an hypothetical effect compartment. The model consists of (i) a known model for the input rate of drug I(t), (ii) a parametric model; L(t, alpha) (a function of time t, and vector of parameters alpha), relating I to an observed variable X, (iii) a nonparametric model relating X to E. Ce is proportional to X. X (t) is given by I(t) * L(t, alpha)/AL, where L(t, alpha) = e-alpha 1t * sigma k m = 1 alpha 2k e-alpha 2k + 1t, sigma k m = 1 alpha 2k = 1, AL = integral of 0 infinity L(t) dt, and * indicates convolution. The nonparametric model relating X to E is a cubic spline, a function of X and a vector of (linear) parameters beta. The values of alpha and beta are chosen to minimize the sum of squared residuals between predicted and observed E. We also describe a similar model, generalizing a previously described one, to analyze PK/PD data. Applications of the approach to different drug-effect relationships (verapamil-PR interval, hydroxazine-wheal and flare, flecainide and/or verapamil-PR, and left ventricular ejection fraction) are reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco 94143.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Verotta
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Sheiner
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D005424:Flecainide / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D006919:Hydroxyzine / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate / Q000502:physiology; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010599:Pharmacokinetics; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014700:Verapamil / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D006919:Hydroxyzine; D014700:Verapamil; D005424:Flecainide