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ArticleCPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology2014

Effects of IL-1β-Blocking Therapies in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Modeling Approach to Explore Underlying Mechanisms.

R Palmér, E Nyman, M Penney, A Marley, G Cedersund, B Agoram

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Article in CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

R PalmérWolfram MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden.
E Nyman1] Wolfram MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden [2] Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
M PenneyDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism, and Pharmacokinetics, MedImmune, Cambridge, UK.
A MarleyBioscience, Astra Zeneca, Alderley Park, UK.
G Cedersund1] Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden [2] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
B AgoramDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism, and Pharmacokinetics, MedImmune, Cambridge, UK.
Linköping University · SEPharmacoGenetics (China) · CNAstraZeneca (United Kingdom) · GBWolfram MathCore (Sweden) · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent clinical studies suggest sustained treatment effects of interleukin-1β (IL-1β)-blocking therapies in type 2 diabetes mellitus. The underlying mechanisms of these effects, however, remain underexplored. Using a quantitative systems pharmacology modeling approach, we combined ex vivo data of IL-1β effects on β-cell function and turnover with a disease progression model of the long-term interactions between insulin, glucose, and β-cell mass in type 2 diabetes mellitus. We then simulated treatment effects of the IL-1 receptor antagonist anakinra. The result was a substantial and partly sustained symptomatic improvement in β-cell function, and hence also in HbA1C, fasting plasma glucose, and proinsulin-insulin ratio, and a small increase in β-cell mass. We propose that improved β-cell function, rather than mass, is likely to explain the main IL-1β-blocking effects seen in current clinical data, but that improved β-cell mass might result in disease-modifying effects not clearly distinguishable until >1 year after treatment.

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