PK-PD models Flashcards
What is PD?
- Deals with the relationships between the drug concentration and the magnitude of pharmacological responses
What does PD represent?
Broad discipline to identify drug and system specific properties that regulate acute and long term biological responses to drugs
What is PD used for?
The context of therapeutic effects, whereas toxicology or toxicodynamics related to ADRs
What are example biomarkers/endpoints for PD for?
- To a presumed mechanistic effect
- To a potential or accepted surrogate
- To that full range of short term or long-term clinical effects related to either efficacy or safety
What are the different PD response to a drug?
- Rapid
- Delayed
- Stimulation or inhibition
- Functional adaptation
What are examples of rapid PD responses?
- Netutramitters
- Neuromuscula blockade
- Drug effects on electrical signals
What are examples of delayed PD responses?
- hormone effects
- mRNA effects
- Protein or enzyme changes
- Antibiotic effect
- Weight loss
- Bone density
- Smoking cessation
What are examples of functionally adapted PD responses?
- Desensitization of receptors
- Up or down regulation
- Precursor pool depletion
What happens once a drug reaches the effect site?
Interacts with receptors
What induces PD response?
Drug and receptor interaction
What is the classical theory of receptor occupancy?
Drug effect is proportional to the number of receptors occupied by drug and the maximal effect occurs when all receptors are occupied
What is the mathematical definition of the classic theory of receptor occupancy?
What are models?
Simplified descriptions of certain aspects of reality by mathmatical means
What are PD models?
Mathematical expressions based on classical receptor theory describing the intensity/magnitude of a pharmacological response of a drug as a function of its concentrations at the effect site
What is the purpose for PD model development?
To explain the complex mechanism of drug action
How are PD models categorized?
- Empirical
- Semi-mechanistic
- Mechanistic
What is the most frequently used PD model?
Empirical:
Emax and Sigmoid Emax
What are the characteristics of Emax?
- Describes the PD relationship over a wide range of drug concentrations
- Predicts the baseline and the maximum effects
What are the characteristics of sigmoid Emax?
- Able to describe an S shape pattern of effect curve by adjusting n values
- Predicts the baseline and the maximum effects
What does an Emax model assume?
- E is directly proportional to receptor occupancy (linear transduction)
- Cp rapidly equilibrates with the effect site, therefore, Cp drives PD
What is sigmoid Emax model?
Used when the effect curve exhibits an S shape pattern
What is another name for the sigmoid function?
Hill equation: where n is the Hill coefficient that affects the slope of the curve
Why is PD models important for determining dose-response relationship?
Help identify where PD and dose may be altered and thus dose adjustments are necessary
What are the disadvantages of PD models?
- Lack of correlation between Cp and concentration at effect site
- Difficulties in reliable and reproducible measurements of pharm effects
- Difficulties in quantifying direct pharm effects of a drug
- Complicated pharm effects
- Development of tolerance or sensitization after the prolonged exposure of a drug
- Disease induced PD alterations in receptor characteristics or effector-mechanisms
- Inter-indivudal or intra invidual variability in PD owing to genetic or environmental factors
What needs to be included in a complete model of drug response?
A PK model that describes the plasma concentration at any time after drug dose must be linked to a PD model that describes the response produced by any given concentration at site of action
What is most desirable approach to finding drug concentration?
Simultaneously measuring drug concentrations at the effect site (Ce) and its pharmacological response (R)
Not feasible to measure Ce