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G Patilea-Vrana1, J D Unadkat2
1Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Abstract:
The well-stirred hepatic clearance model (WSHM) has been expanded to include drug transporters (i.e., extended clearance model [ECM]). However, the consequences of this expansion in understanding when transporters vs. metabolic enzymes will affect the pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) of drugs remains opaque. Identifying the rate-determining step(s) in systemic or tissue drug PK/PD will allow accurate predictions of drug PK/PD and drug-drug interactions (DDIs). Here, we clarify the implications of the ECM on PK/PD of drugs.
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