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ArticleBritish journal of pharmacology2018

An evaluation of the operational model when applied to quantify functional selectivity.

Xiao Zhu, David B Finlay, Michelle Glass, Stephen B Duffull

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Article in British journal of pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiao ZhuOtago Pharmacometrics Group, National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-3295-619X
David B FinlayDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Michelle GlassDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-5997-6898
Stephen B DuffullOtago Pharmacometrics Group, National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Pharmac · NZUniversity of Auckland · NZ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background and purposeFunctional selectivity describes the ability of ligands to differentially regulate multiple signalling pathways when coupled to a single receptor, and the operational model is commonly used to analyse these data. Here, we assess the mathematical properties of the operational model and evaluate the outcomes of fixing parameters on model performance. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH: The operational model was evaluated using both a mathematical identifiability analysis and simulation. KEY

resultsMathematical analysis revealed that the parameters R CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: This analysis has provided a ready-to-use understanding of current methods for quantifying functional selectivity. It showed that current methods are generally tolerant to fixing parameters. A new method was proposed that removes the need for including a high efficacy ligand in any given experiment, which allows application to large-scale screening to identify compounds with desirable features of functional selectivity.

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PMID29457969
PMCPMC5913411
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