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1Pioneering Medicines, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
The Michaelis-Menten (MM) approximation of the target-mediated drug disposition (TMDD) model is often used to describe nonlinear pharmacokinetics of monoclonal antibodies, which are, however, bivalent molecules. We analyze a TMDD model for bivalent drugs by means of quasi-steady state approximations, which yield MM approximations in the limit of weak avidity (soluble targets) and strong avidity (cell surface targets), thereby providing a justification for the use of MM approximations for bivalent drugs with slow systemic clearance.
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