Predicting nonlinear relationships between external and internal concentrations with physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling

Autor: Daniel Hoer, Hugh A. Barton, Alicia Paini, Michael Bartels, Brandall Ingle, Jeanne Domoradzki, Jeffrey Fisher, Michelle Embry, Philip Villanueva, David Miller, James Nguyen, Qiang Zhang, Stephen W. Edwards, Yu-Mei Tan
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 440:115922
ISSN: 0041-008X
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2022.115922
Popis: Although external concentrations are more readily quantified and often used as the metric for regulating and mitigating exposures to environmental chemicals, the toxicological response to an environmental chemical is more directly related to its internal concentrations than the external concentration. The processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) determine the quantitative relationship between the external and internal concentrations, and these processes are often susceptible to saturation at high concentrations, which can lead to nonlinear changes in internal concentrations that deviate from proportionality. Using generic physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models, we explored how saturable absorption or clearance influence the shape of the internal to external concentration (IEC) relationship. We used the models for hypothetical chemicals to show how differences in kinetic parameters can impact the shape of an IEC relationship; and models for styrene and caffeine to explore how exposure route, frequency, and duration impact the IEC relationships in rat and human exposures. We also analyzed available plasma concentration data for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid to demonstrate how a PBPK modeling approach can be an alternative to common statistical methods for analyzing dose proportionality. A PBPK modeling approach can be a valuable tool used in the early stages of a chemical safety assessment program to optimize the design of longer-term animal toxicity studies or to interpret study results.
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