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ArticlePharmaceutical research2023

Assessing Dose-Exposure-Response Relationships of Miltefosine in Adults and Children using Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling Approach.

Shadrack J Madu, Ke Wang, Siri Kalyan Chirumamilla, David B Turner, Patrick G Steel, Mingzhong Li

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Article in Pharmaceutical research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Shadrack J MaduSchool of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK.
Ke WangSchool of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK.
Siri Kalyan ChirumamillaCertara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, S1 2BJ, UK.
David B TurnerCertara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, S1 2BJ, UK.
Patrick G SteelDepartment of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
Mingzhong LiSchool of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK. mli@dmu.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9532-9049
De Montfort University · GBSimcyp (United Kingdom) · GBDurham University · GB

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/T020490/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesMiltefosine is the first and only oral medication to be successfully utilized as an antileishmanial agent. However, the drug is associated with differences in exposure patterns and cure rates among different population groups e.g. ethnicity and age (i.e., children v adults) in clinical trials. In this work, mechanistic population physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models have been developed to study the dose-exposure-response relationship of miltefosine in in silico clinical trials and evaluate the differences in population groups, particularly children and adults.

methodsThe Simcyp population pharmacokinetics platform was employed to predict miltefosine exposure in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in a virtual population under different dosing regimens. The cure rate of a simulation was based on the percentage of number of the individual virtual subjects with AUC

resultsIt is shown that both adult and paediatric PBPK models of miltefosine can be developed to predict the PK data of the clinical trials accurately. There was no significant difference in the predicted dose-exposure-response of the miltefosine treatment for different simulated ethnicities under the same dose regime and the dose-selection strategies determined the clinical outcome of the miltefosine treatment. A lower cure rate of the miltefosine treatment in paediatrics was predicted because a lower exposure of miltefosine was simulated in virtual paediatric in comparison with adult virtual populations when they received the same dose of the treatment.

conclusionsThe mechanistic PBPK model suggested that the higher fraction of unbound miltefosine in plasma was responsible for a higher probability of failure in paediatrics because of the difference in the distribution of plasma proteins between adults and paediatrics. The developed PBPK models could be used to determine an optimal miltefosine dose regime in future clinical trials.

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Antiprotozoal AgentsLeukocytes, MononuclearAdultChildComputer SimulationHumansModels, BiologicalPhosphorylcholineAntiprotozoal AgentsmiltefosinePhosphorylcholinedose-exposure–response relationshipsmiltefosinePBPK modellingpharmacokinetics

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PMID37816929
PMCPMC10746618
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