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Drug-specific validation vignettes (one per published model) are published on the package website at https://nlmixr2.github.io/nlmixr2lib/articles/. The name column links to the vignette when one exists for that model. Models are grouped by their location in inst/modeldb/: general PK/PD templates first, then specific drug models, then models curated from the DDMoRe Foundation library.

General

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A1pi (Tortorici 2017) Empirical disease-progression model of intravenous alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor (A1-PI) augmentation therapy in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (Tortorici 2017). Combines a sequential dose-exposure regression that predicts the per-subject median trough serum A1-PI from average dose rate (mg/day, supplied as DOSE covariate), baseline body weight, and baseline endogenous A1-PI, with a piecewise-linear-in-time exposure-response model that predicts CT lung density at total lung capacity from the dose-derived A1-PI exposure and baseline FEV1, with a slope transition at 720 days separating the RAPID-RCT and RAPID-OLE study phases.
AAA (Sherer 2012) Hierarchical Bayesian disease-progression model of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) diameter in men with small (30-49 mm) AAA identified during ultrasound screening (Sherer 2012). The expected AAA diameter follows the ODE dY/dt = beta1 + beta2 * (Y - beta0) with Y(0) = beta0, so the growth rate changes at a constant rate with change in size; the three individual-level parameters (baseline size beta0, baseline growth rate beta1, and constant first derivative of growth rate with size beta2) are drawn from a multivariate normal distribution with a full 3x3 covariance. Covariate effects: baseline AAA diameter on all three parameters, log10 plasma D-dimer on beta1 and beta2, and a diabetes-mellitus binary on beta2. Disease-progression model with no drug dosing.
ABPM (Sheng 2013) Cyclic-fluctuation (circadian rhythm) model for 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (24-h ABPM) in Chinese patients with mild-to-moderate essential hypertension during the placebo run-in period of four antihypertensive drug clinical trials (Sheng 2013). Predicts systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) simultaneously as the sum of (a) a rhythm-adjusted 24-h mean and (b) two cosine harmonics with periods 0.5 day (12-h harmonic) and 1 day (24-h harmonic). The two phase-shift parameters PHS1 (12-h harmonic) and PHS2 (24-h harmonic) are shared across SBP and DBP because the authors found the per-output phase-shift estimates were close enough to combine; the four amplitudes (one per output x harmonic) and the two baselines (one per output) remain output-specific. No drug input and no compartments – a baseline-BP circadian model intended for combination with a drug PK/PD model when simulating antihypertensive trials.
Albumin (Bisaso 2014) Semi-mechanistic disease-progression model for plasma albumin in Ugandan adults co-infected with HIV (on efavirenz-based ART) with or without active TB (on rifampicin-based anti-TB co-treatment). Indirect-response form with zero-order hepatic albumin secretion that follows a Verhulst logistic transition from baseline rate Q0 to steady-state rate Qss, and first-order plasma elimination at a fixed literature rate.
Alzheimer (Delor 2013) Disease-progression model (no drug input) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression on the Clinical Dementia Rating scale - Sum of Boxes (CDR-SOB, 0-18 score) over time, fit by Delor et al. (2013) to 2,700 CDR-SOB observations from 380 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) plus 180 AD patients in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database with up to 4 years of follow-up. The model embeds an individual disease-onset time (DOT) and a logit-domain disease trajectory A(1) with a smooth-step activation (T^30 / (DOT^30 + T^30)) that turns the disease progression on at the subject’s DOT; a two-component mixture model assigns each subject to either a fast-progression branch (rate plus accelerating term alphaA(1)) or a slow-progression branch (rate alone, alpha = 0). A study-entry ‘placebo’ term PL(1 - exp(-KPL*(t - T_ENTRY))) captures an early drop or delay observed after enrollment. Baseline CDR-SOB and ADAS-cog explain most of the DOT variability; baseline MMSE modifies alpha; baseline CDR-SOB, FAQ, and normalized hippocampal volume (RHPNM) modify the mixture probability. The published mixture probability and the residual-error scale-domain choice are clarified in the validation vignette’s Assumptions and deviations section. No drug input is dosed in this model.
Baicalein (Xiang 2018) In vitro (RAW264.7 mouse macrophage cell line). Semi-mechanism-based cellular pharmacodynamic model for the anti-inflammatory effect of baicalein on LPS-induced cytokine and iNOS/NO release in RAW264.7 mouse macrophages. Four indirect-response states arranged in a TNF-alpha -> {IL-6, iNOS -> NO} cascade: (1) TNF-alpha indirect response with LPS-stimulated zero-order production and baicalein’s log-linear inhibition f(Bai) = alpha * log(C_Bai + 1) on the production rate; (2) IL-6 indirect response with delayed TNF-alpha drive (lag tau1); (3) iNOS indirect response with delayed TNF-alpha drive (lag tau2) and elimination held at zero (paper choice for the post-12.5 h plateau); (4) NO indirect response with iNOS^delta amplification and elimination held at zero. Baicalein concentration enters as a static covariate (CONC_BAI_UM); LPS is constant at 1 ug/mL throughout the experiment and is absorbed into the kinTNF zero-order production rate (no explicit LPS state). Tau1 and tau2 are encoded via single-compartment delay states (mean transit time = tau) because rxode2 does not provide a native delay-differential-equation solver; see the validation vignette Errata for the impulse-response implications. Typical-value-only mechanism: no IIV, no residual error is reported in the source (CV% in Table 1 are RSE / precision of estimate, not BSV).
Bmi (Oniki 2018) Population prediction model for body mass index (BMI, kg/m^2) in 341 elderly Japanese health-screening participants (Oniki 2018). BMI is parameterised as the typical value at age 70.8 years for a male non-T/T reference subject, multiplied by a power-of-age scalar and a female sex multiplier, with an additive shift for carriers of the DsbA-L (GSTK1) rs1917760 -1308G>T T/T genotype (Eq. 1 of the source paper). Log-normal between-subject variability acts on the typical BMI, and log-normal (exponential) residual error is added on the linear scale. The fit was performed with NONMEM 7.2.0 $PRED METHOD=COND INTER (s010 control stream); MINIMIZATION SUCCESSFUL, OBJ 1454.644. There is no drug input. Companion BMI-driven NAFLD-risk model in Oniki_2018_nafld_risk.
Caspofungin (Venisse 2008) In vitro (Candida albicans, ATCC 3153). Mechanism-based PK-PD model of caspofungin fungicidal activity in a dynamic broth-renewal flask. Candida population dynamics follow Mouton-type saturable exponential growth with a maximum carrying capacity Nmax minus a first-order natural-death rate Kd minus a fixed broth-renewal rate Ke (set by the experimenters to 0.231 1/h, equal to the drug 1-compartment kel and yielding a 3 h elimination half-life). Caspofungin adds a sigmoid-Emax (Hill=1) Emax * C / (EC50 + C) death-stimulation term to the natural Kd, producing the concentration-dependent CFU decay followed by regrowth seen in Figure 3B. Drug concentration is the central/Vc concentration from a one-compartment PK with V and CL fixed to the apparatus geometry (V = 0.4 L bulk volume of the glass flask, CL = 1.54 mL/min consistent with t1/2 = 3 h). Candida growth/death/Nmax parameters were estimated from all six experiments (3 fluconazole + 3 caspofungin) in a single Nonmem run, so the Kg / Kd / Nmax values reproduced here are the joint typical-value estimates shared with the companion model Venisse_2008_fluconazole. Interindividual variability was reported on Nmax (225% CV exponential) and on Emax (65% CV exponential); the residual error was reported as exponential at 96% CV on the linear CFU/mL scale, encoded here as an additive SD on natural-log CFU/mL via sigma_ln = sqrt(log(CV^2 + 1)).
Caspofungin cat (Leshinsky 2017) Preclinical (cat). Two-compartment population PK model with first-order linear elimination from the central compartment for intravenous caspofungin acetate in healthy adult cats (Leshinsky 2017)
Ceftazidime (Bulitta 2009) In vitro (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1). Mechanism-based PD model (model D) for the pronounced inoculum effect of ceftazidime, fit to static time-kill experiments at initial inocula 10^6 / 10^7 / 10^8 CFU/mL with ceftazidime 0-128 mg/L. Two co-existing bacterial subpopulations (genotypically susceptible and resistant) each follow a two-state life-cycle (S1 -> S2 -> 2 S1) with a shared slow S1 -> S2 generation step (k12) and a shared fast doubling step (k21 fixed at 50 /h). A logistic-saturation replication-efficiency factor Rep gates the doubling step toward the carrying capacity CFUmax. Ceftazidime stimulates an autolysin effect (alys_s / alys_r) that decreases the per-doubling success probability via (1 - alys); the resistant population has a smaller maximum autolysin effect (Smax_r < Smax_s). Freely diffusible signal molecules (csig1 / csig2) synthesised by all viable bacteria mediate quorum-sensing-like phenotypic tolerance at high inocula: high csig1 suppresses the autolysin loss (the inoculum effect) and prolongs the generation time (drug-conditional Inhk12 factor). Ceftazidime broth concentration cb degrades first-order at fixed half-life 45.9 h (Viaene 1973). The model has no human PK component; the experimental drug exposure is supplied as a dose into cb at time zero, and the bacterial / signal initial conditions are derived from the inoculum log10_cfuo parameter. Random effects (eta) are NOT estimated in the NONMEM analysis – the paper reports the additive log10-scale residual SD only (between-run variability was negligible). The packaged model is therefore intended for typical-value simulation.
Colistin PAO1 (Bulitta 2010) In vitro (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1; NONMEM VI primary fit). Mechanism-based population pharmacodynamic model for colistin static time-kill experiments across initial inocula of 104-109 CFU/mL. The bacterial system has three pre-existing subpopulations (susceptible / intermediate / least-susceptible) with different second-order killing rate constants by colistin, plus a lag compartment that initially holds the susceptible cells (no growth or natural death, but subject to colistin killing and signal-molecule inhibition). A first-order rate constant klag transfers cells from the lag compartment into the replicating susceptible compartment. Each replicating subpopulation grows via a saturable Michaelis-Menten-style function parameterised by POPmax (would-be plateau without signal-molecule inhibition) and a per-subpopulation low-density growth half-life t1/2(kg,low CFU); cells die first-order at kd = 0.3 /h. A receptor-occupancy submodel encodes competitive displacement of Mg2+/Ca2+ from outer-membrane LPS sites by colistin (Eq. 1) followed by a steep Hill function (Hill = 10 fixed) that maps the fraction of receptors not occupied by cations into the effective colistin concentration at the target site (Eq. 2). Signal molecules tracking CFUALL with first-order kinetics (kdeg) inhibit both bacterial replication (ImaxRep) and colistin killing (ImaxKill) via a Hill-1 function with the same IC50 (Eqs. 4, 5). Drug concentration Ccolistin (mg/L) and cation concentration Ccations (umol/L) are external time-varying covariates supplied from the data; the model has no human PK. Random effects (eta) are NOT included: the paper reports CV 24% IIV on the three growth half-lives only (jointly via difference-in-VGmax), reflecting between-experiment replicate variability; the packaged model is intended for typical-value simulation.
Colistin URMC1 (Bulitta 2010) In vitro (Pseudomonas aeruginosa URMC1; S-ADAPT fit). Mechanism-based population pharmacodynamic model for colistin static time-kill experiments against the clinical P. aeruginosa isolate URMC1, used in Bulitta 2010 alongside PAO1 and URMC2 to test whether the structural model generalises beyond the reference strain. Identical structure to Bulitta_2010_colistin_PAO1: three pre-existing bacterial subpopulations (S / I / R) with different second-order colistin killing rate constants; a lag compartment that holds susceptible cells at t = 0 and transfers them into the replicating susceptible compartment at rate klag; a saturable Michaelis-Menten-style growth function parameterised by POPmax and per-subpopulation low-density growth half-lives; first-order natural death at kd = 0.3 /h; receptor-occupancy submodel for Mg2+/Ca2+ competition followed by a Hill-10 mapping into effective colistin at the target site; and a signal-molecule compartment tracking CFUALL whose Hill-1 inhibition of replication and killing produces the observed inoculum effect. Drug concentration Ccolistin (mg/L) and cation concentration Ccations (umol/L) are external time-varying covariates from the data. Random effects (eta) are NOT included – URMC1 is reported in the S-ADAPT column of Table 1 without IIV.
Colistin URMC2 (Bulitta 2010) In vitro (Pseudomonas aeruginosa URMC2; S-ADAPT fit). Mechanism-based population pharmacodynamic model for colistin static time-kill experiments against the clinical P. aeruginosa isolate URMC2, the second of two clinical strains used in Bulitta 2010 to externally qualify the structural model developed against PAO1. Identical structure to Bulitta_2010_colistin_PAO1 / _URMC1 – three pre-existing subpopulations, lag compartment, saturable growth, first-order natural death, receptor-occupancy submodel with Hill-10 mapping to effective colistin, and a signal-molecule compartment producing the inoculum effect. Drug concentration Ccolistin (mg/L) and cation concentration Ccations (umol/L) are external time-varying covariates from the data. Random effects (eta) are NOT included – URMC2 is reported in the S-ADAPT column of Table 1 without IIV.
Coproporphyrin I (Barnett 2018) Semi-mechanistic turnover model for the endogenous OATP1B-substrate biomarker coproporphyrin I (CPI) in healthy adult males (Barnett 2018), with simultaneous plasma and urine outputs and competitive rifampicin inhibition of biliary CPI clearance. CPI is produced at a zero-order synthesis rate ksyn, distributed in volume Vcpi, and eliminated via biliary clearance CLb,CPI (the dominant route, ~88% of total CL under baseline conditions) and renal clearance CLr,CPI. Rifampicin inhibits CLb,CPI competitively through KiCPI driven by the instantaneous plasma rifampicin concentration; CLr,CPI and ksyn are unaffected. A binary RIF-coadministration covariate additionally captures a paper-reported ~50% reduction in Vcpi during the rifampicin phase (Barnett 2018 Table 1).
Coproporphyrin I GDC0810 (Yoshida 2018) One-compartment endogenous turnover model for the OATP1B-substrate biomarker coproporphyrin I (CPI) in healthy adults (Yoshida 2018, GDC-0810-CPI calibration). CPI is produced at a zero-order synthesis rate Ksyn = kdeg * Baseline and eliminated as a single first-order pool whose overall rate constant kdeg is decomposed into a non-hepatic fraction fNH (held fixed at 12.9 %, unaffected by inhibitor) and a hepatic fraction 1 - fNH (competitively inhibited by the OATP1B perpetrator via Ki,u). The perpetrator portal-vein unbound concentration enters as a time-varying covariate CP_GDC_UM (umol/L); setting CP_GDC_UM = 0 collapses the model to the inhibitor-free steady state Baseline. This file encodes the GDC-0810-CPI calibration (Table 2 right column) with IIV on Baseline (18.2 %CV) and Ki,u (30.1 %CV); a sibling file Yoshida_2018_coproporphyrin_I_rifampin encodes the rifampin calibration with its own Ki,u, kdeg, and no IIV. The original fit used a Y. Chen et al. in-house PBPK model for GDC-0810 portal-vein concentrations (personal communication, not on disk and not in the nlmixr2lib registry), so downstream users must supply CP_GDC_UM externally.
Coproporphyrin I rifampin (Yoshida 2018) One-compartment endogenous turnover model for the OATP1B-substrate biomarker coproporphyrin I (CPI) in healthy adults (Yoshida 2018, rifampin-CPI calibration). CPI is produced at a zero-order synthesis rate Ksyn = kdeg * Baseline and eliminated as a single first-order pool whose overall rate constant kdeg is decomposed into a non-hepatic fraction fNH (unaffected by inhibitor) and a hepatic fraction 1 - fNH (competitively inhibited by the OATP1B perpetrator via Ki,u). The perpetrator portal-vein unbound concentration enters as a time-varying covariate CP_RIF_UM (umol/L); setting CP_RIF_UM = 0 collapses the model to the inhibitor-free steady state Baseline. This file encodes the rifampin-CPI calibration (Table 2 left column; no IIV reported); a sibling file Yoshida_2018_coproporphyrin_I_GDC0810 encodes the GDC-0810 calibration with its own Ki,u, kdeg, and IIV structure. The original fit used a Simcyp v16r1 default single-dose rifampin model for the portal-vein concentration profile; that PBPK output is not reproducible from on-disk sources and the paper itself documents an approximately 5-fold sensitivity of the estimated Ki,u to the choice of perpetrator-PK model, so downstream users must supply CP_RIF_UM externally and treat the calibrated Ki,u as conditional on that choice.
CysticFibrosis (Harun 2019) Non-linear mixed-effects disease-progression model of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) percent predicted versus age in children with cystic fibrosis (Harun 2019). The model describes the typical sigmoid-Emax decline of FEV1% predicted from a baseline at age 5 years to an asymptote, with covariate effects of BMI z-score and severe air trapping at age 5 on the baseline, and time-varying hospitalisation due to pulmonary exacerbation on the maximum drop and the half-effect age.
Daclatasvir asunaprevir (Wang 2018) MBMA PK + mechanistic HCV viral-dynamic (VD) model for daclatasvir (DCV, NS5A inhibitor) and asunaprevir (ASV, NS3/4A protease inhibitor) combination therapy in adults with genotype-1 chronic hepatitis C (Wang 2018). PK was developed by a model-based meta-analysis of arm-mean concentration data pooled from 26 trials (1067 concentration records, DCV 198 subjects in 30 arms / 7 trials, ASV 290 subjects in 35 arms / 11 trials); each drug uses an independent 2-compartment disposition model with inter-arm variability (IAV) encoded as study-arm-level etas (not between-subject variability). DCV absorption is first-order; ASV absorption is simultaneous zero- plus first-order with formulation-dependent fraction FK absorbed via the zero-order route (FK=0.184 for capsule/tablet, 0.334 for suspension/solution). The shared viral dynamics is a Neumann-style three-state target-cell model (uninfected target cells target T, productively infected cells infected I, free virions virus V) with most system constants (Tmax, d, R0, delta) FIXED to literature values from Neumann et al 1998; virion clearance c and production p are estimated. Each drug acts via its own effect compartment with a sigmoid-Emax inhibition of virion production (Emax=1) and an empirical exponentially time-increasing IC50 capturing the emergence of drug-resistant variants (Kr coefficient). Genotype subtype (GT1A vs GT1B) modifies IC50 by a fixed scaling factor (SCL_DCV=0.18, SCL_ASV=0.30, both GT1B/GT1A ratio) and modifies the DCV resistance rate (Kr_DCV=0.43 /day for GT1A vs 0.13 /day for GT1B). Combination efficacy follows the Bliss-additive form ECOMB/(1-ECOMB) = EDCV/(1-EDCV) + EASV/(1-EASV) (Eq 13). The model is intended for simulating arm-mean PK and viral-load trajectories under DCV monotherapy, ASV monotherapy, or DCV+ASV combination regimens; downstream NCA-style summaries (Cmax, Tmax, AUC) reproduce the published per-dose-group PK profiles, and viral-load trajectories reproduce the published biphasic decline and resistance-driven rebound shapes.
DiRnanoparticle (Gilkey 2015) Preclinical (mouse, BALB/c, 4-6 weeks). PBPK model for fluorescently labeled (DiR) block-copolymer nanoparticles in mice, developed as a surrogate model for dexamethasone-encapsulated nanoparticles in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia therapy. Five compartments: plasma, liver, spleen, kidneys, and a virtual ‘other’ compartment introduced to close the mass balance for ~50% of injected dose that experimental imaging could not account for in the four sampled organs. Single 100 uL IV bolus of 5 ug/mL DiR-NPs; the model treats plasma initial concentration as 5 ug/mL per paper convention (rather than 0.5 ug dose distributed into 1.7 mL plasma volume) – see vignette Assumptions section.
DMD 6MWT (Hamuro 2017) Natural-history disease-progression model for the six-minute walk test (6MWT, meters) in ambulatory boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) on stable corticosteroids (Hamuro 2017). The 6MWT vs subject age is modelled as the minimum of two simultaneously estimated linear lines (Phoenix NLME ‘min’ function): a developmental line with a positive slope (improvement) and a disease-induced line with a negative slope (decline). The two lines intersect at the population-typical age of maximum 6MWT (10 years). Exponential between-subject variability is estimated on both slopes (the intercepts have no IIV); residual error is additive. Disease-progression model with no drug dosing.
Erythropoiesis (Tetschke 2018) Three-compartment population mixed-effects model for human erythropoiesis (red blood cell regeneration after a phlebotomy / blood donation) in healthy adults
Fluconazole (Venisse 2008) In vitro (Candida albicans, ATCC 3153). Mechanism-based PK-PD model of fluconazole fungistatic activity in a dynamic broth-renewal flask. Candida population dynamics follow Mouton-type saturable exponential growth with a maximum carrying capacity Nmax minus a first-order natural-death rate Kd minus a fixed broth-renewal rate Ke (set by the experimenters to 0.231 1/h, equal to the drug 1-compartment kel and yielding a 3 h elimination half-life). Fluconazole multiplicatively inhibits growth via a sigmoid-Emax (Hill=1) Imax * C / (IC50 + C) term where Imax < 1 represents the maximum fractional reduction of the growth rate. Drug concentration is the central/Vc concentration from a one-compartment PK with V and CL fixed to the apparatus geometry (V = 0.4 L bulk volume of the glass flask, CL = 1.54 mL/min consistent with t1/2 = 3 h). Candida growth/death/Nmax parameters were estimated from all six experiments (3 fluconazole + 3 caspofungin) in a single Nonmem run, so the Kg / Kd / Nmax values reproduced here are the joint typical-value estimates shared with the companion model Venisse_2008_caspofungin. Interindividual variability was reported on Nmax (225% CV exponential); the residual error was reported as exponential at 197% CV on the linear CFU/mL scale, encoded here as an additive SD on natural-log CFU/mL via sigma_ln = sqrt(log(CV^2 + 1)).
Gastric emptying (Guiastrennec 2016) Mechanism-based model of postprandial gastric emptying (GE), cholecystokinin (CCK) plasma kinetics, and gallbladder emptying (GBE) in response to caloric intake (Guiastrennec 2016). Acetaminophen (1.5 g oral) is used as a gastric-emptying marker: it shares the stomach -> upper-small-intestine transit rate KG with the nutrients, and is absorbed by KA into a two-compartment paracetamol disposition (CL, VC, Q, VP) where it is observed as plasma Cc. KG is gated by a Hill-type onset function in time-after-dose (sigmoidicity SIG; T50OGTT 15.7 min for glucose-only drinks, T50Fat 23.1 min for fat- containing drinks; T50 = 0 for water) and inhibited by a linear feedback of caloric content in the upper SI (SLPCAL = -0.0173 1/kcal, 40.7% stronger in females via SEXF). Per-nutrient amounts (g of fat, protein, carbohydrate) are tracked through three parallel signal tracks: an ‘upper SI’ track that drives the GE caloric feedback (stomach -> upper_si via KG, drains via KUL with a fixed saturable MM absorption RAMAX/KM scaled from glucose), a ‘duodenum’ track that drives both the CCK-fast (CCKF) Emax stimulus and the GBE Emax stimulus (stomach -> duodenum via KG, drains via fixed KDJ), and an ‘upper jejunum’ track that drives the CCK-late (CCKL) linear stimulus (duodenum -> upper_jejunum via KDJ, drains via fixed KJI). Both downstream tracks run in parallel from a single stomach (literal reading of Figure 1; the joint-topology choice is documented in the validation vignette’s Errata). CCKF and CCKL are encoded as paired precursor + plasma indirect-response models (KRF stimulated by duodenal-signal Emax; KRL stimulated by jejunal-signal linear; T2DM depresses carbohydrate potency POTcarbC by -81.1%). GBE is an indirect-response model where the duodenal-nutrient signal increases the gallbladder release rate KRB (Emax with S50_BILE_eff that scales positively with AGE at +2.15%/yr above reference 58 y, and a WT-driven baseline gallbladder volume BASEBILE_eff at +1.19%/kg above reference 88 kg). No recirculation of emptied bile. Observed outputs are paracetamol plasma concentration (Cc, uM), total CCK plasma concentration (TCCK = CCKF + CCKL, pM), and gallbladder volume (GVol, mL); each carries its own residual-error component as reported in the paper’s Table 3.
HCG GTN (You 2013) Population kinetic biomarker decline model for serum human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) during 8-day methotrexate (MTX) therapy in low-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). hCG decays mono-exponentially from an initial amplitude hCG0 toward a non-zero asymptote hCGres (the modelled residual production attributable to MTX-insensitive tumour cells). The same kinetic structure recasts as an indirect-response / turnover model with kout = K and zero-order production kin = K * hCGres, so the canonical lkout / lrbase names are used. No drug PK is modelled (the fixed 8-day MTX/folinic-acid regimen is implicit). Inter-individual variability: Box-Cox transformed eta on the hCG0 amplitude (shape -0.207) and log-normal etas on lkout and lrbase. Proportional residual error. M3 censoring of BLQ titres (< 2 IU/L) used in the original fit but is not reproduced here – the packaged model is intended for typical-value + IIV simulation.
HIV HCV CD4 recovery (Majekodunmi 2017) Longitudinal disease-progression / immune-reconstitution model for age-standardised CD4 T-cell counts (z-scores) in HIV-infected children receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), with HIV/HCV coinfection slowing the recovery rate (Majekodunmi 2017, fit to 401 children – 355 HIV monoinfected and 46 HIV/HCV coinfected – from the Ukraine Paediatric HIV Cohort Study and the EPPICC HIV/HCV coinfection study across 8 European countries). The age-standardised CD4 z score is modelled as an asymptotic recovery curve z(t) = asy + (int - asy) * exp(-krec * t), where t is duration on ART, int is the pre-ART z score, asy is the long-term z score, and krec (the paper’s symbol c) is the per-subject recovery rate (1/year; ln(2)/krec is the time to half the total recovery from int to asy; renamed from the paper’s c to avoid shadowing R’s built-in c() combine function). Age at start of ART (centred at 4.3 years – the all-cohort median per Table 2 footnote) shifts both asy and int (younger children start higher and reach higher long-term levels). EPPICC enrollment country shifts int with Ukraine as the implicit reference. HCV coinfection is a multiplicative fractional reduction on krec: krec_coinf = krec_mono * (1 + e_hcv_pos_krec * HCV_POS) with e_hcv_pos_krec = -0.77, so coinfected children recover at krec = 1.55 * 0.23 = 0.357 /year (half-time ~2 years) versus 1.55 /year for monoinfected (half-time ~0.45 year). Disease-progression model with no drug dosing – the population were on combination ART (most commonly lamivudine + zidovudine + lopinavir/ritonavir) and the model’s t = 0 is the time of ART initiation.
igg kim 2006 Immunoglobulin G (IgG) model for nonlinear metabolism in healthy subjects
Imipenem tobramycin (Landersdorfer 2018) In vitro (carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii FADDI-AB034). Mechanism-based pharmacodynamic model for an imipenem-plus-tobramycin combination in a 7-day hollow-fiber infection model (HFIM). Three pre-existing bacterial subpopulations differing in imipenem and tobramycin susceptibility (population 1 IPM-S/TOB-S, population 2 IPM-R/TOB-I, population 3 IPM-I/TOB-R) each follow a Bulitta two-state life-cycle growth model (S1 -> S2 -> 2*S1 with replication rate k21 fixed and per-subpopulation mean generation time 1/k12). Logistic carrying-capacity attenuation applies to the replicating step. Imipenem kills with a sigmoidal Hill function (Hill = 3 fixed) and tobramycin with an Emax function; mechanistic synergy is encoded as a discrete 70-fold reduction of the imipenem KC50 against population 3 when the tobramycin concentration meets or exceeds 1.15 mg/L (i.e. tobramycin permeabilizing the outer bacterial membrane toward imipenem). Imipenem and tobramycin concentrations are external time-varying inputs (covariates Cipm and Ctob); the model contains no human PK component.
Imipenem tobramycin (Yadav 2017) Preclinical (mouse, neutropenic murine thigh infection model; clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate FADDI-PA088). Mechanism-based pharmacodynamic model for an imipenem-plus-tobramycin combination with humanized dosing schemes. Two pre-existing bacterial subpopulations differing in imipenem and tobramycin susceptibility (population 1 IPM-S/TOB-R, population 2 IPM-I/TOB-R) each follow a Bulitta two-state life-cycle growth model (S1 -> S2 -> 2S1 with replication rate k21 fixed; mean generation time 1/k12 shared across the two subpopulations). A plateau factor PLAT = 1 - CFUall/(CFUall + CFUmax) attenuates the replication step so the no-drug viable count plateaus at CFUmax. Imipenem kills with a sigmoidal Hill function whose effective KC50 is multiplied by the mechanistic-synergy factor OM_effect = 1 - Imax,OM,TOB Ctob / (Ctob + IC50,OM,TOB) (i.e. tobramycin permeabilizing the outer bacterial membrane toward imipenem). Both subpopulations are tobramycin-resistant, so tobramycin has no direct killing term in this model; its only role is to lower the effective imipenem KC50 via OM_effect. Imipenem and tobramycin concentrations are external time-varying inputs (covariates Cipm and Ctob); the model contains no rodent PK component (the paper imported the murine one-compartment PK of imipenem and tobramycin from external references and the PK parameter values are not reported in the source on disk).
indirect 0cpt transitEx Two compartment PK model with Michealis-Menten clearance using differential equations
indirect 1cpt inhi kin One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kin.
indirect 1cpt inhi kin CLV One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kin.
indirect 1cpt inhi kin r0rmaxcrmax One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kin.
indirect 1cpt inhi kout One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kout.
indirect 1cpt inhi kout CLV One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kout.
indirect 1cpt inhi kout r0rmaxcrmax One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kout.
indirect 1cpt stim kin One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kin.Parameterized using rate cosntants
indirect 1cpt stim kin CLV One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kin.
indirect 1cpt stim kin r0rmaxcrmax One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kin.
indirect 1cpt stim kout One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kout.Parameterized using rate cosntants
indirect 1cpt stim kout CLV One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kout.
indirect 1cpt stim kout r0rmaxcrmax One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kout.
indirect circ 1cpt inhi kin kin t One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kin and circadian kin_t.
indirect circ 1cpt inhi kin kout t One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kin and circadian kin_t.
indirect circ 1cpt inhi kout kin t One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kout and circadian kin_t.
indirect circ 1cpt inhi kout kout t One compartment indirect response model with inhibition of kout and circadian kin_t.
indirect circ 1cpt stim kin kin t One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kin and circadian kin_t.Parameterized using rate cosntants
indirect circ 1cpt stim kin kout t One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kin and circadian kout_t.Parameterized using rate constants
indirect circ 1cpt stim kout kin t One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kout and circadian kin_t.Parameterized using rate cosntants
indirect circ 1cpt stim kout kout t One compartment indirect response model with stimulation of kout and circadian kout_t.Parameterized using rate cosntants
indirect prec 1cpt inhi CLV One compartment precursor-dependent indirect response model with inhibition of drug response. Parameterized with clearance and volume. (effect).
indirect prec 1cpt inhi r0rmaxcrmax One compartment precursor-dependent indirect response model with inhibition of drug response (effect).
indirect prec 1cpt stim CLV One compartment precursor-dependent indirect response model with inhibition of drug response (effect). Parameterized with clearance and volume
indirect prec 1cpt stim r0rmaxcrmax One compartment precursor-dependent indirect response model with inhibition of drug response (effect). Parameterized with clearance and volume
Iron hepcidin (Angeli 2016) Joint turnover model of serum iron and serum hepcidin during the menstrual cycle in healthy non-menopausal women; both molecules follow first-order turnover with a menses-induced increase in elimination (kloss) shared across iron and hepcidin and a delayed post-menses rebound in synthesis (krelI, krelH) starting on day 2 of the cycle, with serum iron multiplicatively modulating hepcidin synthesis around the iron baseline.
Linezolid meropenem vancomycin (Wicha 2017) In vitro (MSSA ATCC 29213). Semimechanistic time-kill pharmacodynamic model of linezolid, meropenem, and vancomycin against methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. Bacterial life cycle has three states: growing (gro), replicating (repl), and persisting (pers). LZD inhibits the GRO->REP transition (bacteriostatic via krep) and induces a replication-independent killing rate kdeath_lzd on growing bacteria. MER and VAN, as cell wall-active antibiotics, impair successful doubling at the REP->GRO transition; the joint MER+VAN action is encoded as a modified Bliss-independence term that includes the paradoxical Eagle-effect self-inhibition of MER at high concentrations and the VAN Emax cap. Drug-unsusceptible persisters are generated during replication at rates kper_mer * E_MER and kper_van * E_VAN, then die at kdeath_per. An adaptive-resistance submodel (Tam 2005) inflates the effective EC50 of MER and of VAN over time via fractional ARon states; subinhibitory VAN concentrations inhibit the MER-adaption rate (monodirectional VAN-on-MER PD interaction). MER and VAN solution concentrations decay first-order due to chemical degradation in growth medium (rates fixed from HPLC measurement); LZD is stable. The model is in-vitro PD only – there is no human PK component; drug exposures are static dosing at t = 0. Random effects (eta) are NOT present: the paper reports replicate-only experimental variability and uses an additive residual error on log10(CFU/mL).
MAb PBPK (Shah 2012) Shah and Betts 2012 platform PBPK model for monoclonal antibody plasma and tissue disposition - human (71 kg) parameter set, non-target-binding (nonspecific) mAb. 15 tissues x 6 sub-compartments (vascular plasma, vascular blood cells, endosomal unbound mAb, endosomal FcRn-bound mAb, endosomal free FcRn, interstitial) plus central plasma, central blood cells, and lymph node, totalling 93 ODE states. FcRn-mediated recycling is implemented in every tissue endosomal space.
Mab7E3 (Cao 2013) Preclinical mPBPK model for the murine anti-platelet IgG1 mAb 7E3 in mice (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Mab8C2 (Cao 2013) Preclinical mPBPK model for the murine anti-topotecan IgG1 mAb 8C2 in mice (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Meropenem gentamicin ciprofloxacin (Sadouki 2025) In-vitro static-time-kill pharmacodynamic model for two- and three-way combinations of meropenem, gentamicin, and ciprofloxacin against Escherichia coli NCTC 12,241. Logistic bacterial growth (knet, Bmax) is killed by an Emax-Hill function for each drug; emergence of regrowth is captured by a time-decay term parameterised by BETA (loss of effect) and TAU (time-shape). Meropenem chemical degradation in CAMHB at 37.5 C is embedded as a first-order decay of the meropenem solution concentration. Drug-drug interactions are encoded as: a fixed -1 categorical shift on BETA whenever a 2- or 3-way combination is present (so the regrowth term reverses sign and effect is sustained), proportional reductions of -0.353 and -0.576 in ciprofloxacin IC50 in the presence of meropenem and gentamicin respectively (synergy on potency), and concentration-dependent Emax shifts of BETA for gentamicin and ciprofloxacin. The model is in-vitro PD only – there is no human or animal PK component; bacterial counts (CFU/mL) are observed on log scale.
MethionineMetabolismCycle (Han 2018) Preclinical (rat). Seven-compartment mechanistic methionine metabolism cycle (MMC) model in Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rats vs non-diabetic controls; predicts plasma methionine and homocysteine after IV methionine.
MRNALNP (Parhiz 2024) Preclinical (mouse, C57BL/6, ~25 g). Whole-body PBPK / luciferase-expression model for systemically administered firefly-luciferase mRNA delivered in lipid nanoparticles (bare, untargeted parameterization). Six anatomical regions (blood, lung, heart, kidney, spleen, liver) plus portal-organ and carcass remainder vasculature; each of the five major tissues additionally tracks an intracellular LNP pool, a translatable mRNA pool, and a luciferase signal. The luciferase observation uses the bare-LNP homogenate-assay parameter set (LU/mg protein); the vignette documents how to switch to the bare-LNP BLI, IgG-coated, and PECAM-targeted parameterizations from paper Tables 1-3.
MultipleSclerosis (VelezdeMendizabal 2013) Discrete count disease-dynamics model for the number of contrast-enhancing lesions (CELs) per monthly T1-weighted post-contrast MRI in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Negative binomial with first- and second-order Markov dependence on the previous monthly CEL counts (‘NB nested MAK2 with steroid effects’ from Velez de Mendizabal 2013): per-month expected CEL count lambda = lambda_0 + PDV * theta_pdv_eff + PPDV * theta_ppdv, where PDV and PPDV are the observed CEL counts at the previous and second-previous monthly MRIs and theta_pdv_eff is the typical theta_PDV (= 0.447) in months with no corticosteroid administration and theta_PDV_S (= 0.145, about 67 percent lower) in months in which the patient received corticosteroids for a clinical relapse. The source publication uses a negative-binomial likelihood with mean lambda and overdispersion OVDP (variance = lambda * (1 + OVDP * lambda)); following the ddmore/Plan_2012_pain.R and ddmore/Schoemaker_2018_levetiracetam.R precedents, the nlmixr2 observation is declared as Poisson(lambda) for fitting-API compatibility, and OVDP is exposed as a derived model variable so a downstream user can post-process Poisson samples through a negative-binomial correction if they need the full source dispersion. No drug PK is dosed in this model; the corticosteroid effect enters as a binary per-record covariate.
Nafld risk (Oniki 2018) Population BMI-driven risk-prediction model for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) prevalence in 341 elderly Japanese health-screening participants (Oniki 2018). The logit of the probability of NAFLD is a fixed baseline floor (-5) plus a sigmoidal-Emax function of (BMI - 17) with Hill exponent 3.43 (Eqs. 2-4 of the source paper). Covariates female sex, HDL-C and LDL-C act on the Emax of the logit (logit_max); the PNPLA3 rs738409 heterozygote and homozygote indicators and HbA1c act on the (BMI50 - 17) half-saturation offset. BMI is clamped to [17, 30] kg/m^2 before entering the sigmoidal term (s011 dataset column BMI_A). No between-subject random effect is estimated (ETA1 FIX 0) and the Bernoulli-likelihood fit (METHOD=COND LAPLACE LIKELIHOOD) reports no $SIGMA residual. The fit was performed with NONMEM 7.2.0 (s011 control stream); MINIMIZATION SUCCESSFUL HOWEVER, PROBLEMS OCCURRED WITH THE MINIMIZATION, with R and S matrices algorithmically singular; OBJ 1193.995. The published 95% CIs are bootstrap-derived (984/1000 successful runs) per the source supplement. Companion BMI prediction model in Oniki_2018_bmi.
oncology sdm lobo 2002 Signal transduction model for delayed concentration effects on cancer cell growth
oncology xenograft simeoni 2004 Oncology tumor growth model in xenograft models
OvarianCancer ca125 (Wilbaux 2014) K-PD joint model of tumour size and CA-125 kinetics during platinum-based chemotherapy in recurrent ovarian cancer (CALYPSO phase III trial; carboplatin + paclitaxel or carboplatin + pegylated liposomal doxorubicin pooled)
Paclitaxel everolimus dasatinib (Ande 2018) In vitro (JIMT-1 HER2-positive trastuzumab-resistant breast cancer cell line) three-dimensional and dynamic (3DD) BelloCell-bioreactor PK/PD model for the sequential triple combination of paclitaxel (PAC) + everolimus (EVE) + dasatinib (DAS). PAC follows a two-compartment mammillary PK model (CL/Q/Vc=Vp_paper/Vp=Vt_paper) driven by a 3-h IV infusion. EVE and DAS share a single combined concentration covariate (their molar concentrations are equal throughout the experiment) constructed inside model() as a step-function-plus-exponential-decline: 0 nM for t<24 h, 50 nM during 24<=t<96 h, then exponential decline with rate kde from t>=96 h derived from the BelloCell perfusion mechanics (0.53 mL/min / 500 mL). PAC and DE concentrations jointly stimulate caspase-3 production via two paper-named slope parameters (spac, sde) entering a 5-state Lobo-Balthasar signal-transduction chain (4 transit relays + 1 active caspase-3 pool) with a Mager-Jusko-style feedback loop in which the production rate of the first transit is divided by the active caspase-3 level. The change in active caspase-3 from baseline drives the kill term in a modified Simeoni (2004) tumor-growth model (exponential-then-linear growth with psi=20 FIXED) on JIMT-1 cell count. No IIV or residual error is reported in the paper (Table 3 reports % RSE on point estimates only); a small fixed additive residual error is included per output as a placeholder so the model is fittable, with values flagged in the vignette Assumptions and deviations section.
ParathyroidHormone (Ahn 2014) Semi-mechanistic indirect-response PD model of parathyroid hormone (PTH) suppression after oral calcium intake in healthy adults; absorbed but unobserved ionized calcium inhibits PTH secretion via an Emax (fixed to 1) negative-feedback term, with a parallel homeostatic indirect-response model for observed plasma ionized calcium.
phenylalanine charbonneau 2021 Phenylalanine model for absorption and metabolism in healthy subjects and patients with PKU
PK 1cmt One compartment PK model with linear clearance
PK 1cmt des One compartment PK model with linear clearance using differential equations
PK 1cmt tmdd full One-compartment TMDD archetype with explicit drug-target binding (Mager & Jusko 2001 full model)
PK 1cmt tmdd mm One-compartment TMDD archetype, Michaelis-Menten (MM) approximation (Gibiansky et al. 2008)
PK 1cmt tmdd qss One-compartment TMDD archetype, quasi-steady-state (QSS) approximation (Gibiansky et al. 2008)
PK 2cmt Two compartment PK model with linear clearance
PK 2cmt des Two compartment PK model with linear clearance using differential equations
PK 2cmt mAb Davda 2014 Two compartment PK model with linear clearance for average monoclonal antibodies (Davda 2014)
PK 2cmt no depot Two compartment PK model with linear clearance using differential equations
PK 2cmt tdcl des Two compartment PK model with time-dependent clearance using differential equations (structured like nivolumab PK model)
PK 2cmt tmdd mm Two-compartment TMDD archetype, Michaelis-Menten (MM) approximation (Gibiansky et al. 2008)
PK 2cmt tmdd qss Two-compartment TMDD archetype, quasi-steady-state (QSS) approximation (Gibiansky et al. 2008)
PK 3cmt Three compartment PK model with linear clearance
PK 3cmt des Three compartment PK model with linear clearance using differential equations
PK double sim 01 PK double absorption model with simultaneous zero order and first order absorptions
PK double sim 10 PK double absorption model with simultaneous first order and zero order absorptions
PK double sim 11 PK double absorption model with simultaneous first order absorptions
Statins ezetimibe mbma (Vargo 2014) MBMA. Literature-based meta-analysis dose-response model for percent change in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) from baseline for six statins (atorvastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin), ezetimibe, and statin-plus-ezetimibe combination therapy in adult dyslipidemia. Operates at the study-arm level over 245 trials (1,267 study-arm data points, 106,808 patients). Algebraic Emax-Hill (sigmoid) dose-response with statin-specific ED50 and shared sigmoidicity n=0.417 across statins; ezetimibe sigmoidicity is fixed to 1. Statin Emax depends on study-arm baseline LDL-C, baseline triglycerides, percentage with coronary heart disease (CHD), and binary cohort indicators for acute coronary syndrome (DIS_ACS) and heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). Combination therapy is modelled via a sub-additive interaction coefficient gamma=0.523 (at maximal monotherapy effect the combined LDL-C reduction is about 7 percent smaller than the sum of the two monotherapies). Fluvastatin and lovastatin twice-daily and extended-release formulations multiply the statin ED50 by a fixed ratio (0.645 for fluvastatin; 0.59 for lovastatin). Between-study variances for Emax and ED50 were fixed to zero in the source paper, so the model has no eta IIV; the residual SD describes study-arm-mean variability and the suitable simulation scope is study-arm-mean percent change in LDL-C, not individual-subject concentrations.
T2DM WHIG (Choy 2016) Semi-mechanistic disease-progression model for type 2 diabetes (WHIG: Weight, HbA1c, Insulin, Glucose). Body-weight turnover under diet+exercise and placebo drives insulin sensitivity, which together with beta-cell function drives a fasting serum insulin (FSI) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) homeostatic feedback (steady-state quadratic). FPG and an additional postprandial-glucose contribution feed a three-compartment transit chain producing total HbA1c. Built from the placebo arm of NCT00236600 (181 obese newly-diagnosed adults with T2DM on diet+exercise for 67 weeks).
TB MTP GPDI invitro (Clewe 2018) In vitro (M. tuberculosis Beijing VN 2002-1585, BE1585 strain). Multistate Tuberculosis Pharmacometric (MTP) model linked to the General Pharmacodynamic Interaction (GPDI) model describing CFU/mL dynamics during 6-day time-kill assays of M. tuberculosis exposed to static rifampicin / isoniazid / ethambutol concentrations alone or in duo / trio combinations. Three bacterial states (fast-multiplying F, slow-multiplying S, non-multiplying N) follow MTP natural-growth dynamics with the transfer rates kFSlin, kSF, kFN, kSN, kNS fixed from Clewe 2016 JAC dkv416; growth is exponential (kG) rather than logistic. Drug effects per Table 1: rifampicin inhibits F growth (sigmoidal Emax) and kills F, S (Emax) and N (linear); isoniazid kills F and S via sigmoidal Emax with a linear isoniazid-induced adaptive-resistance loop (AR_off / AR_on) modulating EC50 on F-kill and S-kill; ethambutol kills F (sigmoidal Emax) and S (linear). The thirteen quantified GPDI interactions (Table 3) enter as multiplicative modifications of each modulated drug’s EC50 using the canonical Emax-style interaction term 1 + INT * C_modifier / (EC50_modifier + C_modifier) per Table 3 footer, with the modifier’s mono EC50 acting as the half-saturation anchor (least complex baseline per the paper’s Materials and methods). Combination effects on each bacterial state are pooled by the Bliss Independence criterion. Drug concentrations are static covariates (no PK structure – the in vitro experiment fixes nominal concentrations for the 6-day window). This is the in vitro twin of Chen 2017 in vivo mouse MTP-GPDI; see modellib(‘Chen_2017_TB_MTP_GPDI_mouse’) for the same MTP-GPDI framework applied to TB-infected BALB/c mice with explicit PK.
TB MTP GPDI mouse (Chen 2017) Preclinical (BALB/c mouse). Multistate Tuberculosis Pharmacometric (MTP) model linked to General Pharmacodynamic Interaction (GPDI) model describing CFU/lungs dynamics in M. tuberculosis Beijing VN 2002-1585 infected BALB/c mice receiving oral monotherapy or combination therapy with rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide. Four parallel population PK models (1-cmt RIF/INH/PZA, 2-cmt EMB) drive concentration-dependent drug effects on three bacterial states (fast-multiplying F, slow-multiplying S, non-multiplying N). Rifampicin and isoniazid interact antagonistically on the killing of S and N (INT_S_RH = 4.49; INT_N_RH = 0.32); rifampicin and ethambutol interact synergistically on the killing of N (INT_N_RE = -0.15). The natural-growth transfer rates kSF, kFN, kSN, kNS are fixed from the in vitro MTP fit of Clewe 2016; the absorption rate constants for isoniazid, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide are fixed from the upstream mouse popPK of Chen 2016.
tgi no sat expo One-compartment TGI model with exponential tumor growth, without saturation.
tgi no sat Koch One compartment TGI model with with exponential tumor growth, without saturation.
tgi no sat linear One compartment TGI model with with linear tumor growth, without saturation.
tgi no sat powerLaw One compartment TGI model with with exponential tumor growth, without saturation.
tgi sat genLogistic One compartment TGI model with tumor growth proportional to tumor size through a generalized logistic function, with saturation.
tgi sat genVonBertalanffy One compartment TGI model where tumor growth is limited by a loss term, with saturation.
tgi sat Gompertz One compartment TGI model with tumor growth proportional to tumor size through a generalized logistic function, with saturation.
tgi sat logistic One compartment TGI model with with exponential tumor growth that decelerates linearly, with saturation.
tgi sat VonBertalanffy One compartment TGI model where tumor growth is limited by a loss term, with saturation.
UricAcid (Aksenov 2018) Semi-mechanistic exposure-response model of uric acid disposition in adults with drug effects of xanthine-oxidase inhibitors (allopurinol via oxypurinol, febuxostat) and a uricosuric URAT1 inhibitor (lesinurad)

Specific Drugs

name description
Abacavir (Archary 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for abacavir in severely malnourished HIV-infected children (Archary 2019); CL/F steps up between day 1 and day 14 of antiretroviral treatment and bioavailability is 31% higher in the early-ART arm
Abacavir (Jullien 2005) Two-compartment population PK model for abacavir in HIV-infected adults (Jullien 2005); apparent clearance scales with body weight via an estimated power exponent, Q/F is fixed when BW is added to the model
Abacavir (Tikiso 2021) Two-compartment population PK model for oral abacavir in HIV-infected African children (Tikiso 2021), with a Savic 2007-style analytical transit-compartment chain feeding a first-order absorption depot, allometric body-weight scaling on disposition (0.75 on CL/Q, 1 on Vc/Vp at 70 kg), sigmoidal Hill-type maturation of CL on postmenstrual age, and multiplicative covariate effects of efavirenz co-medication on CL, rifampicin + super-boosted lopinavir/ritonavir co-medication on F, fixed-dose-combination tablet formulation on MTT, and a time-decaying malnutrition effect on F and CL.
Abatacept (Gandhi 2021) Two-compartment population PK model for abatacept (CTLA4-Ig Fc-fusion) pooled across adults with rheumatoid arthritis and patients aged 2-17 years with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (Gandhi 2021), with first-order SC absorption, zero-order IV infusion support, first-order linear elimination, logit-scale SC bioavailability with disease/age/weight covariates, and a KA parameterisation that enforces KA > k_el.
Abatacept (Li 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for abatacept (CTLA4-Ig Fc-fusion) in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Li 2019), with first-order SC absorption, zero-order IV infusion support, first-order linear elimination, logit-scale SC bioavailability, full-block IIV on CL/VC/Q/VP, and a KA parameterisation that enforces KA > k_el.
Abatacept (Lon 2013) Two-compartment population PK model with linear elimination and short-term zero-order SC absorption for abatacept (CTLA-4Ig Fc-fusion) in male Lewis rats with collagen-induced arthritis (Lon 2013).
Abatacept (Takahashi 2023) Two-compartment IV population PK model for abatacept (CTLA4-Ig Fc-fusion) pooled across 685 adult/pediatric patients with rheumatoid arthritis or polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis and adult/pediatric patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in the ABA2 trial (Takahashi 2023). Linear elimination, allometric weight scaling on CL/Vc/Vp/Q with estimated exponents, and a three-level cohort categorical (RA/JIA reference, ABA2 HLA 7/8, ABA2 HLA 8/8) on CL and Vc.
Abatacept (Zhong 2026) Two-compartment population PK model for abatacept (CTLA4-Ig Fc-fusion) pooled across 9 phase 2/3 studies (Zhong 2026): adults with rheumatoid arthritis, patients aged 2-17 years with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and patients aged 6+ years with hematologic malignancies receiving HLA-matched unrelated-donor HSCT (the ABA2 trial). Final model has zero-order IV infusion, first-order SC absorption, first-order linear elimination, additive plus proportional residual error, allometric weight on CL/VC/VP, hepatic (AST) and renal (cGFR) markers on CL, sex on CL and VC, two HSCT cohort indicators (7-of-8 and 8-of-8 HLA-matched URD) on CL/VC, and a logit-scale SC bioavailability sub-model with weight, age, and pJIA-disease covariates fixed to a previously developed internal JIA PPK model (values match Gandhi 2021).
Acetaminophen (vanRongen 2016) Parent-and-metabolites population PK model for intravenous acetaminophen (paracetamol) and its glucuronide, sulphate, and CYP2E1-oxidation (cysteine + mercapturate) metabolites in morbidly obese and non-obese adults (van Rongen 2016). One-compartment plasma disposition for parent acetaminophen with four parallel elimination pathways from the central compartment (glucuronidation, sulphation, CYP2E1 oxidation, and unchanged renal); one-compartment plasma disposition for glucuronide and cysteine + mercapturate metabolites each fed via a single-transit-compartment delay; two-compartment plasma disposition for sulphate (central + peripheral, fixed equal volumes 5.66 L each). Lean body weight (LBW; Janmahasatian et al. 2005 equation) enters as a power-law covariate on parent V, all three formation clearances, the CYP2E1 transit rate constant, and glucuronide elimination CL. Total body weight enters on the glucuronide volume of distribution.
Acyclovir (Zeng 2009) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for acyclovir in 43 children and young people (age 0.8-19.9 years; weight 7.3-70.2 kg) with malignancy, after intravenous acyclovir (5 mg/kg q8h, 1 h infusion) or oral valacyclovir prodrug (10 mg/kg q12h), developed in NONMEM v5.1.1 (FOCE-I) from 1216 plasma observations. Structural model: first-order absorption (ka) from a depot with bioavailability F (oral valacyclovir delivered as systemic acyclovir), one-compartment disposition with first-order elimination. Allometric body-weight scaling on CL (fixed exponent 0.75) and V (fixed exponent 1) referenced to the cohort median 19.6 kg; CL additionally varies with creatinine clearance via a power function (CRCL/106.7 mL/min/1.73 m2)FAC. Inter-individual variability is diagonal on CL, V, ka, and F. Residual error is a combined exponential (proportional after linearization) + additive model. Inter-occasion variability on CL (19.2% CV) and V (30.4% CV) reported by Zeng 2009 Table 3 is NOT encoded structurally here (per the Andrews 2017 / Brooks 2021 tacrolimus precedent) – the source paper does not define an operational occasion column for the model-library use case.
Adalimumab (Drweesh 2026) One-compartment population PK model with first-order subcutaneous absorption and linear elimination for adalimumab originator (Humira) and biosimilars (Amgevita, Hyrimoz) in adults with inflammatory bowel disease and other autoimmune disorders, fit to multicenter therapeutic-drug-monitoring trough data from Saudi Arabia and Qatar (Drweesh 2026). Structural backbone (V/F, IIV variances, residual error) inherited from Marquez-Megias 2023 because Drweesh 2026 reports only ka (fixed) and the typical clearance value.
Adalimumab (Marquez-Megias 2023) One-compartment population PK model with first-order subcutaneous absorption and linear elimination for adalimumab in adults with inflammatory bowel disease, with albumin and anti-drug-antibody covariates on apparent clearance (Marquez-Megias 2023)
Adecatumumab (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for adecatumumab in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Agomelatine (Xie 2019) A semiphysiological population pharmacokinetic model of agomelatine and its metabolites in Chinese healthy volunteers
Alemtuzumab (Mould 2007) Two-compartment population PK model with Michaelis-Menten elimination for alemtuzumab in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (Mould 2007)
Alirocumab (Martinez 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for alirocumab in healthy volunteers and adults with hypercholesterolemia (Martinez 2019, Part I), with first-order SC absorption (with lag time), linear plus Michaelis-Menten (target-mediated) elimination from the central compartment, and logit-transformed bioavailability.
Alvespimycin (Aregbe 2012) Three-compartment population PK model for the heat shock protein 90 inhibitor 17-DMAG (alvespimycin, NSC 707545) given as a 1 h IV infusion to adult patients with advanced solid tumors (Aregbe 2012), with first-order elimination, log-normal IIV on CL/Q3/V1/V2/V3, and between-occasion variability on Q2 and V1 multiplexed by an OCC indicator across up to five daily dosing occasions.
Amatuximab (Gupta 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination for amatuximab in patients with advanced cancers / malignant pleural mesothelioma (Gupta 2016)
Amifampridine (Thakkar 2017) Joint parent-metabolite population PK + fractional-Emax PD model for 3,4-diaminopyridine (3,4-DAP, amifampridine) free base and its N-acetyl metabolite 3-Ac DAP in 49 adults with Lambert-Eaton myasthenia (Thakkar 2017). Two-compartment parent + one-compartment metabolite with Fm fixed to 1 (all parent clearance forms metabolite). Body weight is allometrically scaled on CL/F and CLm/F3ACDAP (exponent 0.75 fixed) and linearly on Vp/F (exponent 1 fixed), all with reference weight 82 kg. Serum creatinine acts on CLm/F3ACDAP through (0.8/SCR)^0.7 with median SCR 0.8 mg/dL. The PD submodel describes the Triple Timed Up and Go (3TUG) score in seconds via a fractional-inhibitory Emax equation Effect = E0 * (1 - Emax * Cp / (EC50 + Cp)) where Cp is the parent 3,4-DAP plasma concentration in ng/mL.
Amikacin (Delattre 2010) Two-compartment IV population PK model for amikacin in critically ill adult patients with severe sepsis or septic shock during the first 24 hours of antibiotic treatment (Delattre 2010)
Amikacin (Tod 1998) Two-compartment intravenous population PK model for amikacin in febrile, severely neutropenic adults with hematological malignancies (Tod 1998); clearance modeled as the sum of a non-renal intercept and a Cockcroft-Gault-like renal component with sex-stratified slope coefficient (males theta_1, females theta_2), age-correction factor (theta_3 - AGE/100), and Cockcroft-Gault-like renal-function ratio (WT / CREAT). Power-variance residual-error model.
Amlitelimab (Tiraboschi 2025) Two-compartment population PK model for amlitelimab (anti-OX40L mAb) in adults, with parallel first-order and Michaelis-Menten (TMDD) elimination, SC absorption with lag time, allometric body-weight scaling, and EASI / albumin covariate effects (Tiraboschi 2025)
Amodiaquine (Ali 2018) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for oral amodiaquine and its CYP2C8-derived active metabolite desethylamodiaquine in adults and children with uncomplicated Plasmodium malaria, pooled across five WWARN cohorts (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Thailand). Two-transit absorption (NN = 2) into a 2-compartment amodiaquine disposition model with complete in-vivo conversion (with MW correction) to a 3-compartment desethylamodiaquine disposition model. Allometric body-weight scaling on CL/Q (exponent 0.75) and Vc/Vp (exponent 1.0) referenced at WT = 50 kg; sigmoidal postmenstrual-age maturation on both amodiaquine and desethylamodiaquine clearance; 22.4% lower bioavailability on the first daily dose relative to subsequent doses.
Amoxicillin (Tang 2019) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order elimination for intravenous amoxicillin in Chinese neonates and young infants (Tang 2019). Current weight enters as a fixed allometric power on both volumes (exponent 1) and on CL and Q (exponent 0.75); CL is further modulated by a maturation factor F_age that is the product of two power functions of gestational age and postnatal age. Interindividual variability is estimated on the peripheral volume V2 and on CL only; residual variability follows an exponential model (proportional in linear space).
AmphotericinB liposomal (Hong 2006) Two-compartment population PK model for liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) in 39 pediatric oncology patients receiving 1-h IV infusions (Hong 2006). Clearance and central volume scale exponentially with body weight centered at the cohort-median 21 kg; the paper additionally reports substantial between-occasion variability on CL and V1 that is encoded here as IIV on fixed-at-1 multiplicative anchors (Bellanti 2015 IOV-as-IIV pattern).
Ampicillin (Tremoulet 2014) One-compartment IV population PK model for ampicillin in preterm and term neonates (Tremoulet 2014; opportunistic POPS / PTN study). Clearance is allometrically scaled linearly to body weight and modulated by a serum-creatinine power factor (0.6/SCR)^0.428 and a postmenstrual-age power factor (PMA/37)^1.34. Central volume scales linearly with body weight (0.399 L/kg). Inter-individual variability is supported on CL only; residual variability is proportional.
Anakinra (Urien 2013) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for subcutaneous anakinra (recombinant nonglycosylated human IL-1 receptor antagonist) in 87 children and adolescents (8 months to 21 years, 4.3 to 83 kg) treated for systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) and diverse autoinflammatory syndromes (Urien 2013). First-order absorption (Ka) into a single central compartment with first-order elimination; apparent clearance CL/F and apparent volume V/F are allometrically scaled to body weight with estimated power exponents (0.47 on CL/F and 0.76 on V/F, reference 70 kg). Inter-individual variability is reported on CL/F and between-occasion variability on V/F; no other covariate effect (age, sex, co-administered anti-inflammatory drugs) was retained.
Anifrolumab (Almquist 2022) Two-compartment QSS-TMDD population PK model for anifrolumab (anti-IFNAR1 IgG1-kappa) in healthy volunteers and adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (Almquist 2022): linear plus quasi-steady-state target-mediated elimination via a dynamic IFNAR1 receptor pool, time-varying linear clearance (Emax-on-time), and IFNGS-high/low and body-weight covariate effects.
Anrukinzumab (Hua 2015) Two-compartment population PK model for anrukinzumab (anti-IL-13 IgG1 monoclonal antibody) with first-order SC absorption and linear elimination, pooling healthy volunteers, mild-to-moderate asthma, moderate-to-severe asthma, and ulcerative colitis patients (Hua 2015)
Anthracycline troponinT (deVriesSchultink 2018) Kinetic-pharmacodynamic (K-PD) direct-effect model for serum high-sensitive cardiac troponin T (hs-TnT) in early-breast-cancer patients receiving an adjuvant anthracycline regimen (de Vries Schultink 2018). The dose enters a virtual K-PD body amount compartment with first-order elimination at rate kel; the linear direct effect TRP = TRP0 * (1 + SLOPE * Aant) raises serum troponin T above a population baseline TRP0 in proportion to the current K-PD amount. The proportional SLOPE is anthracycline-type dependent: epirubicin produces a 0.524-fold smaller effect than the doxorubicin reference, encoded jointly by the CONMED_DOXORUBICIN and CONMED_EPIRUBICIN indicators. No other covariates retained. Companion file deVriesSchultink_2018_trastuzumab_LVEF.R consumes the per-subject peak troponin T from this model as a covariate.
Anti tryptase (Rymut 2023) Mechanistic population PK/PD model for the anti-tryptase IgG4 monoclonal antibody MTPS9579A in healthy adults and adults with moderate-to-severe asthma (Rymut 2023). Two-compartment serum disposition with first-order SC absorption and allometric weight scaling on linear CL and central volume; quasi-equilibrium (QE) TMDD describes saturable binding of MTPS9579A to total monomeric serum tryptase; a mechanistic airway interstitial-fluid (ISF) compartment receives free mAb and mAb-monomer complex from the systemic circulation through lymph flow with vascular reflection coefficients; in the ISF, tryptase is secreted as the active tetramer (target_isf), spontaneously dissociates into inactive monomers (monomer_isf), and is rapidly disrupted by bound mAb (kbreak); free MTPS9579A binds tetramer and monomer with the same KD. Estimated systemic TMDD parameters come from a NONMEM 7.4.3 SAEM fit to 106 healthy Phase 1 subjects (Table 1); fixed mechanistic ISF parameters come from in vitro / physiological literature and from a healthy-subject visual fit of the upper-airway biodistribution coefficient at 3% (Methods, Table S2, Figure S2).
Apixaban (Ueshima 2018) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenomic model for oral apixaban in Japanese adult patients with atrial fibrillation (Ueshima 2018). Apparent oral clearance CL/F is the sum of an apparent renal arm (power on creatinine clearance, CCR/70) and an apparent non-renal arm carrying two recessive-/dominant-style pharmacogenomic factors: CYP3A5 3 carrier (genotype 1/3 or 3/*3) reduces non-renal CL/F by a factor of 0.312, and ABCG2 421A/A (rs2231142 homozygous variant) reduces non-renal CL/F by a factor of 0.341. Apparent volume of distribution Vd/F = 24.7 L (no significant covariates). Absorption rate constant ka was fixed at 0.42 1/h from a prior publication (Frost 2013 Br J Clin Pharmacol, reference 13 in the paper) because the sparse trough-and-2-point-postdose sampling design lacked enough absorption-phase data to identify ka.
Apomine (Bonate 2004) Two-compartment population PK model for oral apomine (a synthetic bisphosphonate-ester anti-cancer agent) in 38 subjects – 19 healthy adult males and 19 male and female patients with advanced solid tumours – pooled from four model-development studies (Bonate 2004 Studies 1, 2, 5, 6) with three validation studies (Studies 3, 4, 7). Apomine is administered orally with or without food in single and multiple-dose regimens over 30 to 2100 mg total daily dose. Disposition is a two-compartment model with linear elimination and a first-order absorption mixture: a dominant Group 1 subpopulation (97 %, paper P1 logit) with an estimable lag time and faster absorption rate, and a minority Group 2 subpopulation (3 %) with no lag time and slower absorption (Table 3). Apparent oral clearance is time-dependent via an empirical sigmoid Emax auto-induction model in elapsed time (CL = CL0 + CLmax * time^n / (t50^n + time^n); Table 3), reaching 50 % of the maximal induction-driven increment in about two days. Relative bioavailability F1 is dose-saturable (F1 = D50 / (Dose + D50)) with an additional fractional food effect (1 + theta_food * FED), where the F1max anchor is structurally fixed at 1 (Table 3). Cancer patients have lower baseline CL/F and lower central volume than healthy males (encoded via the DIS_CANCER indicator with log-additive effects e_cancer_cl and e_cancer_vc back-derived from Table 3); intercompartmental clearance and peripheral volume are common to both populations. Central volume scales proportionally with body weight at a fixed allometric exponent of 1.0 (Table 3). A bimodal high-Vp subpopulation observed in the four healthy-male multiple-dose subjects (Bonate 2004 Study 2) is encoded as a binary indicator MIX_HIGH_VP multiplying the typical peripheral volume by 23.5. Inter-occasion variability (18 % on CL and Vc, Table 3) is omitted from this file because occasion definitions are study-design-specific (per the standard nlmixr2lib practice; see vignette Assumptions and deviations).
Aripiprazole (Knights 2015) Two-compartment population PK model for oral aripiprazole in adult psychiatric patients (Knights 2015), with first-order absorption, linear-deviation weight (gated by WT < 115 kg) and age effects on apparent oral clearance, multiplicative CYP2D6 poor-metabolizer effect on CL/F, linear weight (gated by WT < 115 kg) and age effects with multiplicative female-sex effect on the peripheral volume, linear weight (gated by WT < 115 kg) effect with multiplicative female-sex effect on apparent inter-compartmental clearance, correlated inter-individual variability across Vc/F, Q/F, and Vp/F, independent IIV on ka and CL/F, and a proportional residual error.
Aripiprazole (Koue 2007) Two-compartment population PK model for oral aripiprazole in healthy Japanese male volunteers (Koue 2007), with first-order absorption, an absorption lag time, body-weight linear scaling on Vc/F, Vp/F, Q/F, and CL/F, additive linear-deviation CYP2D6 intermediate- and poor-metabolizer effects on CL/F (Group 1 = extensive metabolizer reference), an additive linear-deviation itraconazole-coadministration (CYP3A4 inhibitor) effect on CL/F, independent inter-individual variability on every structural parameter, and a log-normal (exponential) residual error.
Artemether (Hietala 2010) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for oral artemether (ARM) and its active metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) in 50 Tanzanian children (ages 1-10 years, weights 8-30 kg) with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria treated with the standard six-dose weight-based Coartem (artemether 20 mg + lumefantrine 120 mg per tablet) regimen at 0, 8, 24, 36, 48, and 60 hours (Hietala 2010). Absorption is first-order with ka fixed at 1/h. Disposition is two-compartment for ARM with complete in-vivo conversion to DHA (bioavailability of DHA fixed at 1 to render the metabolite model identifiable); DHA disposition is one-compartment. The apparent oral clearance of ARM is time-dependent with a linear increase per dose number occasion (CL/F_ARM = theta1 * (1 + theta2 * (OCC - 1)), OCC = 1..6), reproducing a ~3.4-fold rise over the six-dose regimen attributed to enzyme induction. All PK parameters are reported per kilogram body weight (linear weight normalisation applied inside model()).
Artemether (Tarning 2012) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for oral artemether and its active metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) in 21 pregnant women (2nd or 3rd trimester) with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda after the standard fixed-dose oral artemether-lumefantrine regimen (Tarning 2012). Absorption is flexible: zero-order dissolution into a depot of duration DUR feeds a 6-compartment transit chain at rate ktr; the same ktr empties transit6 into central (ka set equal to ktr). Disposition is 1-compartment for both artemether and DHA with complete in-vivo conversion of artemether to DHA. Relative bioavailability F is fixed at 1 with log-normal IIV; no statistically significant covariates were retained in the final model (Methods / Results); a single combined additive residual on log-transformed plasma concentrations is shared by both species.
Artemether parasitemia (Hietala 2010) Joint artemether (ARM) + dihydroartemisinin (DHA) PK model coupled to a semimechanistic Plasmodium falciparum parasite life-cycle PD model in Tanzanian children (ages 1-10 years, weights 8-30 kg) with uncomplicated falciparum malaria (Hietala 2010). The PK is the same Table 1 two-compartment ARM (with time-dependent CL/F_ARM via the OCC dose-occasion covariate) and one-compartment DHA structure as modellib(‘Hietala_2010_artemether’). The PD (Table 3) is a five-stage parasite life-cycle model: parasites mature through tinyrings (PTR), smallrings (PSR), largerings (PLR), and mature trophozoites / schizonts (PMT), and parasites killed or injured by drug accumulate in a spleen compartment (Pspleen) before clearance at a fixed elimination rate k_spleen = 0.26 / h (Gordi et al. 2002, ref 9). Replication is encoded as a multiplication factor REPL_p applied to the PMT -> PTR transit (estimated to 4 in symptomatic patients; fixed to 1 in asymptomatic children, not encoded in this file). Drug killing is modelled on all visible developmental stages as k_ARM = S * log[ARM] and k_DHA = S * log[DHA] with shared slope S_ARMDHA = 0.073 (Table 3). Visible parasitemia is the sum of the ring-stage compartments plus the spleen pool. Lumefantrine effect was tested but not retained in the source paper and is intentionally absent from this model.
Artemisinin (Birgersson 2016) One-compartment population PK model for oral artemisinin in 15 healthy male Vietnamese volunteers, with a seven-compartment transit-absorption chain (number of transits fixed at 7). The published final model carries inter-occasion variability on apparent clearance and mean transit-time and inter-individual variability on relative bioavailability; for forward simulation in nlmixr2lib the IOV terms are mapped onto etas (etalcl, etalmtt) so a single-occasion simulation reproduces the population variability. The published full covariate analysis found no clinically significant effect (>20 %) of formulation, dose level (160 vs 500 mg), or concomitant piperaquine on the structural PK parameters, so no covariates are carried in the model.
Artemisinin (Sidhu 1998) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for oral artemisinin in 23 paediatric (2-12 y) and 31 adult (16-45 y) Vietnamese patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria, fit to sparse capillary plasma samples from a 5-day 10 mg/kg/day field-setting regimen. Separate population estimates for CL/F and V/F are carried for adults (per-subject) and children (per-kg body weight) via a CHILD age-group covariate. Time-dependency in artemisinin disposition is modelled as a 6.9-fold systematic decrease in oral bioavailability between the Day 1 and Day 5 doses, with the published inter-occasion variability on apparent CL/F and V/F retained per occasion. Inter-individual variability on CL/F and V/F is collectively estimated for both age groups; the published etaCL/etaVc correlation ‘near unity’ is encoded at 0.95 for numerical stability.
Artesunate (Hendriksen 2013) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model of intramuscular artesunate (ARS) and its active metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) in 70 African children aged 7 months to 11 years admitted with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria (Hendriksen 2013). Each species has a one-compartment apparent-volume disposition; ARS is delivered by a zero-order input over a 1-min fixed duration (the IM absorption from the injection site, fixed because too few samples were collected during the absorption phase to identify the rate) and is converted mole-for-mole to DHA with no separate parent elimination. Body weight is the dominant covariate (allometric scaling with fixed exponents 0.75 on apparent clearance and 1.0 on apparent volume for both species; reference 10.9 kg), with hemoglobin additionally lowering DHA clearance by 10.2% per g/dL above the reference 7.1 g/dL.
Artesunate (LohyDas 2018) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model of oral artesunate (ARS) and its active metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) in 50 adult patients with uncomplicated, artemisinin sensitive or resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in southern Myanmar (Lohy Das 2018, Malaria Journal). ARS absorption is described by a 3-transit-compartment chain (n = 3 fixed) followed by a one-compartment ARS disposition; complete in-vivo conversion of ARS to DHA is assumed (all ARS clearance is metabolic conversion). DHA disposition is one-compartment. Allometric body-weight scaling is applied to all CL (exponent 0.75) and V (exponent 1.0) parameters, centered on the population-median 50 kg. F is fixed at 1. The packaged model file omits the published time-varying parasite-density covariates on MTT and on F (Eqs. 3 and 4) and the entire PD layer (mixture-Emax parasite-killing model with effect compartment); both depend on the upstream Lohy Das 2017 AAPS J paper (ref [36]) which is not on disk. See the vignette’s Assumptions and deviations section for the rationale.
Artesunate (Morris 2011) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for single-dose oral artesunate (AS) and its active metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) in 26 pregnant and 25 non-pregnant women with asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Morris 2011). Each species has a one-compartment apparent-volume disposition, with mixed zero-order plus lagged first-order absorption of AS and complete in-vivo conversion of AS to DHA (no separate AS elimination). Pregnancy increases DHA apparent clearance by 42.3% relative to non-pregnant controls (the only retained covariate); the postpartum sub-cohort could not be characterised by a structural model and is not represented.
Artesunate (Simpson 2013) In vitro (P. falciparum). Sigmoid Emax inhibition model of artesunate effect on hypoxanthine uptake by clinical Plasmodium falciparum isolates from the Thai-Myanmar border (Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, 1993-2005), with pfmdr1 genotype covariate effects on EC50. The ‘subject’ in the NLME framework is a parasite isolate (n=474 isolates with artesunate data). STIM_ARTESUNATE_NM is the per-well drug concentration in the in vitro hypoxanthine-uptake-inhibition assay; the model has no PK and no time evolution. E0 and Emax are fixed per Simpson 2013 Table 3 footnote.
Artesunate (Tan 2009) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model of oral artesunate (AS) and its active metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) in 91 healthy Korean adult volunteers (Tan 2009). AS is described by a one-compartment first-order absorption / first-order elimination disposition; DHA by a two-compartment disposition (central + peripheral). AS is converted mole-for-mole to DHA as the only elimination pathway. Body weight linearly increases DHA apparent clearance (1.9 L/h per kg above the 61.5 kg reference) and a high-fat / high-caloric meal at dosing reduces AS absorption rate Ka by 84%. Subjects pooled across four Phase I studies (single-dose ascending, drug-interaction with pyronaridine, food-effect, and three-day multiple-dose) at 2-5 mg/kg oral AS.
Asenapine (Dogterom 2018) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order sublingual absorption for asenapine in pediatric patients (aged 10-17 years) with schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, or other psychiatric disorders (Dogterom 2018 Drug Design, Development and Therapy). Central / peripheral volumes and absorption-rate constant were fixed from a Phase I-only fit; no intrinsic covariate (age, BMI, race, sex) was retained in the final model. Residual error switches per observation between intensive Phase I PK sampling (27.8% CV) and sparse Phase III efficacy sampling (56.0% CV), with an additional between-subject scaling of the residual SD (19.2% CV).
Astegolimab (Kotani 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for astegolimab (anti-ST2 IgG2) in adults with severe asthma (Kotani 2022)
Asundexian (Yassen 2025) Two-compartment population PK model with two transit absorption compartments for asundexian, an oral selective Factor XIa inhibitor, in healthy volunteers and adult patients at risk for thromboembolic / cardiovascular events (Yassen 2025)
Atazanavir (Dickinson 2009) One-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model with absorption lag-time for oral ritonavir-boosted atazanavir in HIV-infected adults and healthy volunteers; ritonavir AUC0-24 (median 7.52 mg*h/L) enters CL/F via a power function (Dickinson 2009).
Atazanavir (Rekic 2011) Population PK / PD model for atazanavir (boosted with ritonavir 100 mg QD) and its concentration-dependent effect on plasma bilirubin in adult antiretroviral-naive HIV-positive patients from the NORTHIV trial (Rekic 2011). Atazanavir disposition is described by a one-compartment model with first-order absorption and an absorption lag, fitted to log-transformed plasma atazanavir concentrations; ka and the lag time were fixed to the published values from the Colombo 2006 atazanavir popPK report (ref 27) because sparse absorption-phase sampling did not support their re-estimation, and CL/F and V/F were re-estimated under fixed allometric scaling on body weight centred at 70 kg (exponents 0.75 on CL/F and 1 on V/F, both fixed a priori). The bilirubin response is described by an indirect-response (turnover) model with concentration-dependent inhibition of the fractional turnover rate kout: dB/dt = kin - kout * (1 - Imax * Cc / (IC50 + Cc)) * B, with kin re-parameterised at steady state as kin = kout * Baseline. Inter-individual variability is supported only on V/F, CL/F (PK), and bilirubin baseline (PD); the paper notes that the data did not support IIV on the remaining PD parameters. PK residual variability is proportional; bilirubin residual variability is combined additive + proportional (the paper’s ‘slope-intercept’ model).
Atazanavir ritonavir (Schipani 2013) Simultaneous one-compartment first-order-absorption popPK model for oral atazanavir (ATV) and ritonavir (RTV) in 30 HIV-infected adults receiving ATV/RTV 300/100 mg once daily, with a direct sigmoidal-Emax inhibition of ATV apparent clearance by RTV plasma concentration (Imax = 0.988, IC50 = 0.221 mg/L). Both drugs share a one-compartment structure with first-order absorption and an absorption lag time; ka values are fixed to the separate-model final estimates (ATV ka = 1.81 1/h, RTV ka = 0.898 1/h) because joint estimation produced numerical instability. Inter-individual variability is carried on V/F for both drugs and on CL/F for RTV (correlated with V/F RTV, rho = 0.75); ATV CL/F is fitted without IIV. Demographic covariates and tenofovir co-administration were tested and none retained (Schipani 2013).
Avelumab (Masters 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for avelumab (anti-PD-L1 IgG1) with time-dependent clearance in patients with advanced solid tumors (Masters 2022)
Axatilimab (Yang 2024) Semimechanistic population PK/PD model for axatilimab (anti-CSF-1R IgG4 monoclonal antibody) in healthy adults, patients with advanced solid tumors, and patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (Yang 2024). Two-compartment IV PK with parallel linear clearance and CSF-1R-mediated saturable elimination via competitive Hill binding with circulating CSF-1; CSF-1, NCMC, AST, and CPK pharmacodynamics integrated as turnover indirect-response biomarkers.
Azithromycin (Merchan 2015) Population PK model for intravenous azithromycin in preterm neonates at risk for Ureaplasma respiratory tract colonization (Merchan 2015). Pooled re-analysis of three studies (single 10 mg/kg, single 20 mg/kg, and 3 daily doses of 20 mg/kg). Two-compartment linear model with all PK parameters allometrically scaled on body weight: fixed exponent 0.75 on CL and Q, fixed exponent 1.0 on V1 and V2, reference body weight 1 kg.
Azithromycin (Sampson 2014) Four-compartment mamillary population PK model for oral azithromycin simultaneously describing concentrations in whole blood, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), and polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs) in healthy adults (Sampson 2014). First-order absorption with lag; unidirectional flow from central to PBMC and to PMN compartments; bidirectional flow between central and a peripheral tissue compartment; elimination from central, PBMC, and PMN compartments. The observed whole-blood concentration is a weighted sum of plasma, PBMC, and PMN concentrations.
Azithromycin (Zheng 2014) Semi-mechanistic tissue distribution population PK model for oral azithromycin in healthy adults (Zheng 2014). Three-compartment plasma PK (depot with absorption lag time and first-order absorption, central, two peripheral compartments) with concentration-dependent fraction unbound in plasma (equation 1). Three tissue distribution compartments (muscle interstitial space fluid, subcutaneous adipose tissue interstitial space fluid, polymorphonuclear-leukocyte (PML) cytosol) each driven by free unbound (or, for PML cytosol, free unionized) plasma drug via first-order rate constants kin and kout, with tissue-specific distribution factors df_muscle, df_adipose, df_pmn that scale the steady-state tissue:plasma free-unbound ratio. Each tissue compartment also exchanges with a deep nonspecific phospholipid-binding compartment via shared kon and koff (Methods equations 1-13).
Azithromycin (Zheng 2018) Pediatric population PK model for intravenous azithromycin in children with community-acquired pneumonia (Zheng 2018). Two-compartment model with linear elimination, allometric scaling on clearance and intercompartmental clearance (exponent 0.75 fixed) and on central and peripheral volumes (exponent 1.0 fixed) with reference body weight 21.5 kg, and a binary alanine aminotransferase covariate that reduces CL by 24 percent when ALT > 40 IU/L.
Bapineuzumab (Hu 2014) Two-compartment population PK model for bapineuzumab in adults with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease following IV administration (Hu 2014, reduced model)
BAY81 8973 (Garmann 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for BAY 81-8973 (Kovaltry, full-length unmodified recombinant human factor VIII) in patients with severe haemophilia A aged 1-61 years pooled from the LEOPOLD I, II and Kids trials (Garmann 2017). Final model uses NONMEM M3 likelihood for samples below the chromogenic-assay limit of quantitation (1.5 IU/dL).
Bedaquiline (Svensson 2014) Three-compartment population PK model for bedaquiline (BDQ) and a two-compartment N-desmethyl metabolite M2 in healthy adult volunteers following single 400 mg oral doses, with Savic 2007 analytical transit-compartment absorption (non-integer NN feeding a first-order depot at rate ka), fixed allometric scaling on disposition (0.75 on CL/Q at 70 kg, 1 on Vc/Vp), and multiplicative rifampicin or rifapentine drug-drug-interaction factors of 4.78 and 3.96 on bedaquiline and M2 apparent clearance, applied at full induction from day 3 of rifamycin co-administration.
Bedaquiline (Svensson 2017) Pharmacodynamic exposure-response model for the mycobacterial load (MBL, n bacteria per sample inoculum) in adult patients with drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treated with bedaquiline plus an optimized background regimen. The latent MBL state declines mono-exponentially with a half-life HL that is prolonged by 28.1% in patients with pre-XDR or XDR tuberculosis and shortened by individual bedaquiline weekly-average plasma concentration CAV via an Emax model with the maximum fractional effect on HL fixed at -100% (EC50 1.42 mg/L). The per-subject starting MBL_0 is informed by the baseline mean Time-to-Positivity in MGIT liquid culture (TTP_MGIT_BASE) via a power-form covariate (exponent -3.69 around the cohort median 6.8 days). Inter-individual variability on log HL uses a Box-Cox-transformed eta distribution (Petersson 2009 form, shape 0.66, variance 0.33); inter-occasion variability in sputum sampling on log MBL (variance 3.71) is folded into the residual log-scale error. The Svensson 2017 source’s full 3-component model (longitudinal MBL plus per-sample probability of bacterial presence plus MGIT-tube logistic-growth-driven time-to-event for observed TTP) is reduced here to the MBL component, with the latent MBL state treated directly as the observable; the probability-of-presence and tube-growth-driven TTP machinery are measurement-model artifacts of how MBL was inferred from TTP data and are dropped (see vignette Assumptions and deviations). Bedaquiline CAV is supplied as a time-varying covariate column from any popPK source; the upstream popPK paper (Svensson 2016 CPT PSP, reference 21) is shipped in nlmixr2lib as modellib(‘Svensson_2016_bedaquiline’).
Bedaquiline (Svensson 2018) Three-compartment population PK model for the antimycobacterial bedaquiline (BDQ) and a two-compartment N-desmethyl metabolite M2 in healthy adult volunteers following single 400 mg oral doses, with four-transit-compartment first-order absorption (rate of absorption from the last transit compartment fixed equal to the inter-transit transfer rate, i.e. KA = KTR) and a multiplicative formulation effect adding 23% to the typical mean absorption time when the four 100 mg tablets are suspended in water before swallowing relative to swallowing the tablets whole.
Belantamab (Papathanasiou 2025) Two-compartment population PK model for the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) belantamab mafodotin in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, with sigmoidal time-varying clearance and covariate effects of baseline body weight, BMI, albumin, soluble BCMA, serum IgG, race, and combination therapy (Papathanasiou 2025; ADC moiety only – the cys-mcMMAF payload sub-model is not included; see vignette for rationale)
Belatacept (Shen 2013) PK/PD model for belatacept (CTLA-4/IgG1 fusion protein, selective T-cell co-stimulation blocker) in adult kidney transplant recipients (Shen 2013). The PK side is a one-compartment IV-infusion model derived from the paper’s noncompartmental analysis (Table 1, 10 mg/kg substudy, n = 10): typical clearance and volume for a 70 kg adult are set so the model reproduces the reported geometric-mean CL, Vss, AUC over a 4-week dosing interval, and ~8-9 day terminal half-life. The PD side is the inhibitory Emax model of Eq. 2 (Section 3.2, n = 62 in the phase II corticosteroid-avoidance substudy IM103034) describing free CD86 receptor expression on peripheral-blood monocytes (MESF) as E0 - Emax * Cc / (EC50 + Cc); CD86 receptor occupancy is derived as 100 * (E0 - freeCD86) / E0. Belatacept exhibited linear PK across 5-10 mg/kg with relatively low between-subject variability; the full population PK with body-weight covariates was published separately by Zhou et al. (2012) and is not refit here.
Belimumab (Struemper 2017) Linear two-compartment subcutaneous population PK model for belimumab in healthy volunteers and adult patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, with first-order absorption + lag time, allometric body-weight scaling on CL/Vc/Q/Vp, and baseline BMI on Vc and baseline albumin and IgG on CL (Struemper 2017)
Belimumab (Zhou 2021) Linear two-compartment IV population PK model for belimumab in Chinese and non-Chinese adult and pediatric patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (Zhou 2021)
Benralizumab (Wang 2017) Two compartment PK model of benralizumab (anti-IL-5Ralpha) in healthy volunteers and patients with asthma (Wang 2017)
Benznidazole (Soy 2015) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and first-order elimination for oral benznidazole in adult patients with chronic Chagas disease (Soy 2015; CINEBENZ trial, n = 39 index plus n = 10 external validation). Apparent clearance CL/F = 1.73 L/h, apparent volume of distribution V/F = 89.6 L, and absorption rate constant Ka = 1.15 1/h fixed from the literature (Raaflaub & Ziegler 1979). Inter-individual variability is on CL/F (33.4% CV) and V/F (68.8% CV); inter-occasion variability is on CL/F (29.5% CV), folded into the CL/F eta as BSV-equivalent for forward simulation. Residual error is combined additive (0.57 mg/L) plus proportional (19.53% CV). No demographic or biological covariates were retained in the final model.
Benzylpenicillin (Nielsen 2011) In vitro (Streptococcus pyogenes M12 NCTC P1800). Semimechanistic PKPD model of benzylpenicillin time-kill kinetics; two-stage bacterial life-cycle (proliferating drug-sensitive S and non-growing drug-insensitive R) with sigmoidal Emax killing of S via an effect compartment; first-order drug elimination (ke set per in vitro kinetic-system flow rate) plus drug-specific degradation kdeg. Parameter values are from the combined static and dynamic estimation in Table 3.
Betamethasone (Schoenmakers 2025) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption (no lag time) for intramuscular betamethasone in pregnant women admitted with imminent preterm birth, including early-onset pre-eclampsia (eoPE; diagnosed before 34 weeks gestation). Apparent clearance is multiplied by 0.617 (a 38% reduction, or ~60% of the non-eoPE clearance) when eoPE is present; this is the only retained covariate after backward elimination at P < 0.01. Body weight, BMI, lean body weight, age, gestational age, number of foetuses, white blood cell counts and CRP were screened but did not retain after backward elimination.
Bevacizumab (Panoilia 2015) Quasi-steady-state target-mediated drug-disposition (TMDD QSS) model for IV bevacizumab and free VEGF165 in adults with stage IV colorectal cancer, with fixed allometric body-weight scaling on PK clearances and volumes (Panoilia 2015, Table 3 TMDD model column)
Bevacizumab pk (Papachristos 2020) Two-compartment population PK model for IV bevacizumab in adults with metastatic colorectal cancer, with allometric weight scaling and ICAM-1 / VEGF-A genotype covariates (Papachristos 2020, Table 1)
Bevacizumab pkpd (Papachristos 2020) Two-compartment population PK plus immediate-response Imax PK/PD model for IV bevacizumab and free VEGF-A in adults with metastatic colorectal cancer, with allometric weight scaling and ICAM-1 / VEGF-A genotype covariates (Papachristos 2020, Table 3)
Bevacizumab qss (Papachristos 2020) Quasi-steady-state target-mediated drug-disposition (TMDD QSS) model for IV bevacizumab and free VEGF-A in adults with metastatic colorectal cancer, with allometric weight scaling and ICAM-1 / VEGF-A genotype covariates (Papachristos 2020, Table 2)
Biib107 (Toukam 2025) Two-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination, plus direct sigmoidal Emax PK/PD model of alpha-4 integrin receptor saturation, for BIIB107 (humanized aglycosyl anti-alpha-4 integrin IgG4 monoclonal antibody) in healthy adult volunteers (Toukam 2025).
Brentuximab (Li 2017) Semimechanistic coupled population PK model for brentuximab vedotin antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) and its released small-molecule payload monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) in adults with CD30-expressing hematologic malignancies (Li 2017). ADC is described by a linear 3-compartment model with first-order elimination; MMAE by a linear 2-compartment model with first-order elimination. MMAE formation is driven by (1) proteolytic degradation of the ADC (scaled by a time-decaying drug-antibody ratio DAR(t) and a cycle-dependent fraction Fmc = Cycle^Fm) and (2) a first-order deconjugation flux proportional to the per-ADC MMAE payload above the minimum-detectable DAR. Modeled in molar units (amount nmol, volume L, concentration pmol/mL = nmol/L = nM) following the paper’s convention.
Brentuximab (Suri 2018) Coupled population PK model for brentuximab vedotin antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) and its released payload monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) in 380 patients with CD30-positive malignancies (Hodgkin lymphoma, systemic anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, mycosis fungoides, primary cutaneous ALCL) pooled from six clinical studies including the phase III ALCANZA study (Suri 2018). ADC is described by a linear 3-compartment model with zero-order input and first-order elimination; MMAE by a 2-compartment model with first-order elimination, fed from ADC by (a) a saturable target-binding flux KdTargetADC (initial Target = 1, irreversibly depleted) and (b) a proteolytic flux FMexp(-ALFMtad)K10ADC whose conversion fraction declines as a function of time after the most recent dose. Both fluxes accumulate in an intermediate Lag compartment that empties to MMAE central with rate Klag (FM is fixed to 1).
Brentuximab (Zhou 2025) Coupled population PK model for brentuximab vedotin antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) and its released payload monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) in pediatric patients (5-18 years) with relapsed/refractory or newly diagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma or systemic anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (Zhou 2025). ADC is described by a linear 3-compartment model with first-order elimination; MMAE by a 2-compartment model with first-order elimination. ADC -> MMAE flux is the sum of (a) a one-time saturable target-binding flux KdTargetADC (initial Target = 1 unitless, irreversibly depleted) and (b) a proteolytic flux FMexp(-ALFMtad)K10ADC where the conversion fraction declines as a function of time after the most recent dose. Both fluxes accumulate in an intermediate Lag compartment that empties to MMAE central with rate Klag. Final-model parameter values come from Zhou 2025 supplementary Tables S1 (ADC) and S2 (MMAE); equations come from the NONMEM control streams in Zhou 2025 Supplementary Methods.
Brivaracetam (Schoemaker 2017) One-compartment population PK model for oral brivaracetam in paediatric patients with epilepsy aged 1 month to 16 years (Schoemaker 2017). First-order absorption, single-compartment distribution, and first-order elimination, with allometric scaling of CL/F (exponent 0.750 fixed) and V/F (exponent 1.00 fixed) on lean body weight normalised to a 50 kg adult typical value. Co-administration of phenobarbital (PB; pooled with primidone), carbamazepine (CBZ), or valproate (VPA) modify apparent oral clearance via linear-additive multiplicative factors.
Brodalumab (Timmermann 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for brodalumab in adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis (Timmermann 2019), with first-order SC absorption, fixed bioavailability, and combined linear plus Michaelis-Menten (target-mediated) elimination from the central compartment.
Busulfan (Choe 2012) One-compartment IV PK model for intravenous busulfan in adult Korean hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, with allometric scaling on actual body weight (fixed exponent 0.5) on CL and Vd and a sex effect on Vd (Choe 2012).
Busulfan (Lawson 2022) Two-compartment IV PK model for once-daily busulfan in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients with allometric normal-fat-mass (NFM) scaling, postmenstrual-age maturation on CL, and a time-associated within-treatment-course CL decline (Lawson 2022).
Busulfan (Long-Boyle 2015) One-compartment IV PK model with Michaelis-Menten elimination for busulfan in pediatric and young adult patients (0.1-24 yrs) undergoing hematopoietic cell transplant. Allometric body-weight scaling on intrinsic clearance (CLin, exponent fixed 0.75) and central volume (Vc, exponent fixed 1) with reference weight 22 kg; hockey-stick age effect on CLin (linear increase below the 12-yr breakpoint applied to AGE directly, multiplicative linear decrease above). Correlated IIV on CLin and Vc; combined proportional + additive residual error (Long-Boyle 2015).
C3G (Jeon 2012) One-compartment first-order absorption population PK model with an absorption lag time for cyanidin-3-glucoside (C3G) following 2-week multiple oral dosing of 1 g black bean (Phaseolus vulgaris, Cheongjakong-3-ho) seed coat extract once daily in 12 healthy adult Korean volunteers (Jeon 2012), with log-normal IIV on CL/F and V/F (with correlation rho = 0.883) and on Ka, and proportional residual error.
Cabazitaxel (Ferron 2013) Three-compartment population PK model for intravenous cabazitaxel in patients with advanced solid tumors (Ferron 2013)
Cabazitaxel (Janssen 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous cabazitaxel in 10 men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, with individual midazolam clearance as a CYP3A metabolic-phenotype covariate on cabazitaxel clearance (Janssen 2017 Table 2B ‘Metabolic phenotype model’). The covariate enters via a linear deviation from the population midazolam clearance reference of 26 L/h. The individual midazolam clearance is sourced from the companion Janssen 2017 midazolam model (see modellib(‘Janssen_2017_midazolam’)).
Cabozantinib (Lacy 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for oral cabozantinib (tyrosine kinase inhibitor) in healthy volunteers and patients with renal cell carcinoma, castration-resistant prostate cancer, medullary thyroid carcinoma, glioblastoma multiforme, or other advanced malignancies (Lacy 2018, n=1534 across 9 clinical studies). Absorption is described by parallel dual processes: a fraction F1 enters depot1 via first-order absorption rate Ka with absorption lag time ALAG1, and the remaining (1-F1) enters depot2 via zero-order infusion over duration D2. Capsule (vs tablet, reference) formulation reduces both Ka and overall bioavailability; Ka also scales with dose via a power function (DOSE/60 mg)^0.677. Two-compartment disposition (central + peripheral1) with first-order elimination from central. Covariates on CL/F and Vc/F are baseline age (power on median 64 y), body weight (power on median 81 kg), female sex, race (Black/Asian/Other vs White reference), and tumor type (RCC/CRPC/MTC/GB/Other vs HV reference); MTC cancer type drives an approximately 93% higher CL/F.
Cabozantinib dose modification (Lacy 2018) Repeated time-to-event (RTTE) hazard model for the ‘dose modification of any kind’ (DMAK) endpoint in adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treated with oral cabozantinib in the phase III METEOR study (Lacy 2018 exposure-response analysis, n=317 patients with 0-52 events per patient). The instantaneous risk of a dose modification (interruption, reduction, or escalation) depends on whether the patient is currently on an active dose or on a dose interruption. When on active dose (DOSE > 0) the hazard increases log-linearly with the time-varying average cabozantinib plasma concentration CAV. When on a dose interruption (DOSE = 0) the hazard is governed by a separate, larger baseline log-hazard with no cabozantinib effect (cabozantinib effect on hold-state hazard was tested and dropped during base-model development). The drug input Cavg is the individual predicted daily average plasma cabozantinib concentration (ng/mL) derived from the upstream Lacy 2018 popPK model Lacy_2018_cabozantinib. Forward simulation exposes hazard (instantaneous DMAK rate per day) and sur (survival = probability of no DMAK event since t = 0) as derived outputs.
Cabozantinib tumor (Lacy 2018) Longitudinal sum-of-tumor-diameter (SOD) growth-inhibition PD model for oral cabozantinib in adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) enrolled in the phase III METEOR study (Lacy 2018 exposure-response analysis, n=319 patients with 1637 evaluable tumor-diameter measurements). The tumor diameter Y follows first-order exponential growth at rate k_grow, with a saturable cabozantinib drug-effect of the form Cavg/(EC50 + Cavg) modulating a time-dependent decay rate decay(t) = k_dmax + k_dmax_tot * exp(-k_tol * t). The k_dmax term is the non-attenuating asymptotic decay rate, k_dmax_tot is the magnitude of the resistance-driven loss of decay rate, and k_tol governs the attenuation kinetics (paper-reported attenuation half-life 25.6 days). The drug input Cavg is the individual predicted daily average plasma cabozantinib concentration (ng/mL) carried as a time-varying CAV data column; the upstream popPK model is Lacy_2018_cabozantinib (Lacy 2018 popPK companion paper). Residual error is additive on Y (mm); IIV is exponential on Y(0), k_grow, k_dmax, and k_dmax_tot, with IIV on EC50 and k_tol fixed at a near-zero variance (paper Supplemental Table 3 footnote b).
Canakinumab (AitOudhia 2012) Integrated population PK/PD model of canakinumab (anti-IL-1beta IgG1/k mAb) in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Ait-Oudhia 2012). Two-compartment popPK for total canakinumab is coupled to a quasi-equilibrium target-binding model with endogenous IL-1beta (zero-order production ksyn, linear clearance CLL). Predicted free IL-1beta drives downstream PD: (1) a three-compartment CRP transduction chain with a power-law stimulation (beta) on free-IL-1beta ratio and an empirical amplification (gamma) on the input to the third compartment, and (2) a single-compartment ACR latent variable (ACRL) regulated by a sigmoid Emax on the drop in free IL-1beta below baseline plus a first-order placebo build-up; the latent is mapped to ACR20/50/70 response probabilities via a logit transform with a between-subject random effect. Only body weight was a significant covariate (allometric on CL, CLL, CLDL, Vc, Vp with reference 70 kg).
Canakinumab (Chakraborty 2012) Population pharmacokinetic-binding model for canakinumab (anti-IL-1b IgG1/k monoclonal antibody) and its endogenous target IL-1b in adult cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) patients (Chakraborty 2012). Two physical compartments (central and peripheral) each carry three species: free canakinumab, free IL-1b, and the canakinumab-IL-1b complex. Drug, ligand, and complex share the same volumes of distribution; complex clearance is set equal to free-drug clearance (CLX = CLD). Distribution between compartments uses two permeability-surface-area coefficients: PSD for free drug and complex, PSL for free ligand. Endogenous IL-1b production RLI enters the peripheral compartment. Drug-ligand binding is solved algebraically under a quasi-steady-state assumption with dissociation constant KD (Hayashi 2007 form). Subcutaneous bioavailability F1 was estimated on the logit scale; this file uses the Sp2/0 cell-line value (commercial Ilaris). Body weight modifies CLD, VC, VP via centred power covariates; serum albumin modifies CLD; age modifies SC ka. Two observed analytes: total canakinumab (free + complex) in ug/mL and total IL-1b (free + complex) in pg/mL.
Capecitabine (Urien 2005) Population PK model for oral capecitabine and its three sequential metabolites 5’-DFCR (5’-deoxy-5-fluorocytidine), 5’-DFUR (5’-deoxy-5-fluorouridine), and 5-FU (5-fluorouracil) in 40 adult patients with metastatic cancer (Urien 2005). Capecitabine PK is a one-compartment apparent V1/F model with first-order absorption (Ka) and a lag time; non-transformation elimination CL10/F runs in parallel with the formation clearance CL12/F to 5’-DFCR. Each metabolite has its own central compartment with apparent volume fixed to 1 L (only output rate constants are identifiable in the source NONMEM ADVAN6 fit), so the chain 5’-DFCR -> 5’-DFUR -> 5-FU -> output is described by first-order rate constants K23, K34, K40 (paper’s notation). Total bilirubin (canonical TBILI; source column BILT, umol/L) is the only retained covariate: power exponent +0.32 on CL10/F and -0.36 on K34, both centred on the median bilirubin 8.8 umol/L. Inter-individual variability is reported on TLAG, V1, CL10, K23, K34, and K40; ISV on CL12 was fixed to 0 and ISV on Ka was deleted in favour of a large inter-occasion variability on Ka that is not represented in this static model file (see vignette Errata).
Carboplatin (Ekhart 2008) Two-compartment population PK model for free (ultrafilterable) carboplatin in adult cancer patients (Ekhart 2008)
Carfentanil iv (Mann 2022) Three-compartment IV carfentanil population PK with a first-order biophase (effect-site) equilibrium compartment, used as the agonist input layer of the Mann 2022 translational opioid-overdose model. Mann 2022 had no full carfentanil clinical PK study to fit – only a single microdose case report (Minkowski 2012) reporting a roughly 45-minute plasma half-life. They therefore took the fentanyl Algera 2021 PK micro-constants and applied a fixed set of rate- constant modifications (k_el and k13 divided by 10; k21 and k31 multiplied by 10; k1 increased to 10/min) to reproduce the longer plasma persistence and faster effect-site equilibration of carfentanil. The resulting macro-constants encoded in ini() below yield exactly those micro-constants when combined with (WT/70)^0.75 / (WT/70) allometric scaling. Inter-subject variability is assumed equal to the fentanyl model (same omega^2 values, no carfentanil-specific IIV estimated). Outputs plasma concentration Cc in ng/mL and effect-site Ce in pM for downstream consumption by Mann_2022_mu_receptor_binding.
Carvedilol (Honda 2005) One-compartment population PK model for orally administered racemic carvedilol in 23 healthy Japanese volunteers, with R- and S-enantiomer whole-blood concentrations measured by chiral HPLC at 2 h and 6 h after a single 5- or 10-mg oral dose (Honda 2005). NONMEM ADVAN1/TRANS2 with very rapid absorption: the racemic dose is split equally between two parallel central compartments (central_r, central_s) with no separate absorption depot. CL/F and V/F scale linearly with body weight; an S/R ratio theta_3 (CL/F) and theta_4 (V/F) parameterise the stereoselective difference. One subject-level eta on CL/F and one on V/F are shared between enantiomers (correlated block IIV, rho ~ 0.90). Power-variance residual error with fixed exponent 1/2 (Honda Eq. 3), shared between R- and S-enantiomer observations. CYP2D610 genotype is not in the structural model; Honda 2005 reports the 10-carrier effect only as a post-hoc stratification of the individual Bayes estimates (Figs. 3-4).
Carvedilol (Othman 2007) Two-compartment population PK model for S(-)-carvedilol in healthy volunteers after oral administration of the immediate-release (IR) and the new controlled-release (CR) dosage forms of carvedilol (Othman 2007). Three parallel depot compartments encode the dosage-form-specific absorption: depot (CR, 3-stage time-varying KA), depot2 (IR morning, 2-stage), depot3 (IR evening, 2-stage). Diurnal variability in IR absorption is captured by separate morning and evening KAs and a lower IR-PM relative bioavailability.
Casirivimab (Lin 2024) Two-compartment population PK model for casirivimab in pediatric and adult subjects (non-infected, ambulatory or hospitalized SARS-CoV-2-infected, or household contacts) following IV or SC administration (Lin 2024, casirivimab arm of the joint casirivimab + imdevimab popPK model)
Caspofungin (Wurthwein 2013) Linear two-compartment population PK model with proportional residual error for once-daily 2-hour intravenous caspofungin infusions (70, 100, 150, 200 mg QD) in adults with proven or probable invasive aspergillosis (Wurthwein 2013). Clearance and central volume share a single linear body-weight fractional change centred on the cohort median body weight of 76 kg (CL_i = CL_typ * [1 + 0.0102 * (WT - 76)]; V1_i = V1_typ * [1 + 0.0102 * (WT - 76)]). Inter-individual variability is modelled exponentially on CL, V1, and V2 with an estimated CL-V1 covariance (correlation 0.802). Inter-occasion variability (16% CV) is included on CL across five sampling occasions (days 1, 4, 7, 14, 28) via the OCC covariate; downstream users who only need typical-value or IIV-only simulations can pass OCC = 0 (or any value outside 1..5) so the IOV terms zero out. Dose-level, gender, age, baseline serum bilirubin and baseline creatinine clearance were screened but not retained.
CC292 (Li 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for oral CC-292 (spebrutinib, a potent Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor) in 145 pooled subjects: 32 healthy adults (AVL-292-004) and 113 patients with relapsed and/or refractory B-cell malignancies including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (AVL-292-003). First-order absorption with a single absorption lag, linear elimination from the central compartment, with linear-deviation female-sex effect on apparent clearance (females have 26% lower CL/F) and a power age effect on apparent central volume (reference age 62 years). Residual variability is split into healthy-volunteer and patient strata.
Cebranopadol (Kleideiter 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for oral cebranopadol with two lagged transition compartments in healthy subjects and chronic-pain patients (Kleideiter 2017; with 2018 correction)
Cebranopadol (Kleideiter 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for cebranopadol, a NOP / opioid receptor agonist, in healthy adults and adult chronic-pain patients (low back pain or osteoarthritis, diabetic polyneuropathy, post-bunionectomy), with two transit absorption compartments before central, first-order elimination, and covariate effects from sex, CYP2C9 phenotype, ALT, CrCl, age, body weight, formulation, and disease status (Kleideiter 2018)
Cediranib (Li 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for oral cediranib (AZD2171) in adult cancer patients (Li 2017), with sequential zero- and first-order absorption (zero-order release into depot followed by first-order absorption to central), bioavailability fixed to 1, allometric power scaling on apparent clearance ((WT/73 kg)^0.517 and (Age/59 y)^-0.409) and on apparent central volume ((WT/73 kg)^0.65), correlated inter-individual variability between CL/F and Vc/F (correlation 0.839), independent IIV on Ka, and proportional residual error (rich-sampling estimate).
Cefathiamidine (Zhi 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous cefathiamidine (a first-generation cephalosporin) in 54 children (age 2.0-11.8 years; weight 8.0-36.0 kg) with hematologic disease, developed in NONMEM v7.2 (FOCE-I) from 120 sparse plasma samples. Structural model: first-order elimination from a central compartment, with allometric body-weight scaling on CL, Q (exponent 0.75) and V1, V2 (exponent 1), reference weight 17.75 kg (the cohort median current weight). Inter-individual variability (exponential) is estimated for CL and V2 only; residual variability is exponential (lognormal on the linear scale). Bodyweight was the only retained covariate; age and creatinine clearance were not significant in the limited cohort (CrCL range 130-462 mL/min).
Cefepime (Capparelli 2005) One-compartment population PK model for cefepime in preterm and term neonates (Capparelli 2005); additive renal-plus-non-renal CL on serum creatinine, additive Vc step for PCA < 30 weeks.
Cefepime (Jonckheere 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for IV cefepime in critically ill ICU patients (Jonckheere 2019), updated by simultaneously fitting plasma + urine PK from the original Jonckheere 2017 pilot (STDY1) and the Jonckheere 2019 target-controlled-infusion cohort (STDY2). Total clearance is the sum of an estimated-creatinine-clearance-driven renal arm (CL_renal = 2.29 * (eCrCL/60)^0.943 L/h per 70 kg) and a covariate-free non-renal arm (CL_nonren = 0.795 L/h per 70 kg); all PK parameters are scaled allometrically with body weight (reference 70 kg, exponent 3/4 for clearances, 1 for volumes). The structural form encodes the non-dialysis patient (paper Equations 1-4); a separate CL_dialysis = 4.48 L/h applied during intermittent hemodialysis sessions in the source dataset is documented in the vignette but not enabled in this model file.
Cefotaxime (Leroux 2016) Two-compartment IV population PK model for cefotaxime in neonates and young infants (Leroux 2016). Clearance, central volume, peripheral volume, and inter-compartmental clearance are allometrically scaled to current body weight (fixed exponents 0.75 on CL and Q, 1.0 on V1 and V2; reference weight 1.665 kg). Clearance carries a power-form maturation function on gestational age (reference 30 weeks) and postnatal age (reference 12 days). Only CL has inter-individual variability; residual error is proportional.
Ceftazidime (Bulitta 2010) Three-compartment population PK model for ceftazidime after 5-min IV infusion in cystic fibrosis patients and healthy volunteers (Bulitta 2010), with allometric fat-free-mass scaling and a cystic-fibrosis-vs-healthy disease-group factor on total clearance.
Ceftazidime (Shi 2018) One-compartment IV population PK model for ceftazidime in infants 0.1-2.0 years (Shi 2018) with allometric body-weight scaling and a power-form creatinine-clearance effect on clearance.
Cefuroxime (Alqahtani 2018) Two-compartment IV population PK model for cefuroxime in adults undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (Alqahtani 2018), with a power-form creatinine-clearance (Cockcroft-Gault) effect on clearance.
Cefuroxime (Nielsen 2011) In vitro (Streptococcus pyogenes M12 NCTC P1800). Semimechanistic PKPD model of cefuroxime time-kill kinetics; two-stage bacterial life-cycle (proliferating drug-sensitive S and non-growing drug-insensitive R) with sigmoidal Emax killing of S via an effect compartment; first-order drug elimination (ke set per in vitro kinetic-system flow rate) plus drug-specific degradation kdeg. Parameter values are from the combined static and dynamic estimation in Table 3.
Cefuroxime (Viberg 2006) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous cefuroxime in adult patients with bacterial infections and a wide range of renal function (Viberg 2006); reciprocal serum cystatin C (1/CYSC) and body weight enter as centred-linear covariates on clearance, and body weight enters as a centred-linear covariate on the central volume of distribution.
Cefuroxime axetil (Bulitta 2009) Semiphysiological population PK model for oral cefuroxime axetil (acetoxyethyl-ester prodrug of cefuroxime) in healthy adult male volunteers after a standardized high-fat breakfast. Three drug compartments (stomach -> intestine -> central): a saturable, time-dependent Michaelis-Menten release from the stomach to the intestine followed by first-order absorption from the intestine to the central compartment, with one-compartment linear disposition. The maximum gastric-release rate Vmax is modulated over time-past- meal by a sigmoidal (Hill) function whose maximum fractional change Emax is logit-transformed to range over [-1, 9]. Vmax and Km are estimated as fractions of dose (Bulitta 2009 Results, ‘estimated and are reported as fractions of the cefuroxime dose’), so the absolute Vmax (mg/h) and Km (mg) scale linearly with the stomach-compartment dose amount. Parameter values reproduced here are from the S-ADAPT importance-sampling Monte Carlo EM fit (Bulitta 2009 Table 2, ‘S-ADAPT Population mean’ column), which the authors recommend as the best parametric fit; NONMEM and NPAG estimates are reported alongside in the paper for comparison.
Cemiplimab (Yang 2021) Two-compartment population PK model for cemiplimab (anti-PD-1 IgG4) with time-varying clearance (sigmoid Emax) in adults with advanced solid tumors including cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (Yang 2021)
Cephalexin rat (Padoin 1998) Preclinical (rat, male Wistar). Two-compartment population PK model for cephalexin after intra-arterial (IA) or oral (gastric-tube) administration in rats, with first-order absorption and a competitive drug-drug interaction from coadministered oral quinapril that lowers cephalexin Ka (paper Table 4: 0.249 to 0.177 1/h; ~29% lower) and CL (paper Table 4: 0.810 to 0.640 L/h/kg; ~21% lower) when both drugs are given by the oral route. The paper parameterizes the disposition as {CL, Vc, CL_D, Vss = Vc + Vp}; this implementation uses the canonical {CL, Vc, Q, Vp} parameterization with the typical-value Vp derived as Vss - Vc = 1.23 - 0.416 = 0.814 L/kg. Intra-arterial quinapril or intra-arterial cephalexin produced no detectable interaction on cephalexin elimination, attributed by the authors to the much higher cephalexin renal concentrations outcompeting quinapril at the renal anionic transport carrier (and to Ka being irrelevant for IA dosing).
Certolizumab (Wade 2015) One-compartment population PK model with first-order SC absorption and an additive baseline concentration for certolizumab pegol in adults with Crohn’s disease (Wade 2015)
Chloroquine (Simpson 2013) In vitro (P. falciparum). Sigmoid Emax inhibition model of chloroquine effect on hypoxanthine uptake by clinical Plasmodium falciparum isolates from the Thai-Myanmar border (Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, 1993-2005), with pfmdr1 genotype covariate effects on EC50. The ‘subject’ in the NLME framework is a parasite isolate (n=421 isolates with chloroquine data). STIM_CHLOROQUINE_NM is the per-well drug concentration in the in vitro hypoxanthine-uptake-inhibition assay; the model has no PK and no time evolution. E0 and Emax are fixed per Simpson 2013 Table 3 footnote.
Ciprofloxacin (Schaefer 1996) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous and oral ciprofloxacin in 10 pediatric cystic fibrosis patients aged 6-16 years (Schaefer 1996). First-order absorption from a depot, two disposition compartments, plus a cumulative urine compartment driven by an independently estimated renal clearance. Total clearance is a linear-with-intercept function of body weight (CL = 8.8 + 0.396 * WT, L/h), and central / peripheral volumes are directly proportional to body weight with slopes 0.698 and 1.3 L/kg respectively. Intercompartmental clearance, absorption rate, renal clearance, and oral bioavailability are weight-independent. IIV is retained on CL, Vc, and Vp only; residual error is proportional. Calibrated to the study weight range (15-42 kg); extrapolation beyond is not appropriate per the source authors.
Ciprofloxacin (Thuo 2011) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and absorption lag for oral ciprofloxacin in Kenyan children with severe malnutrition (Thuo 2011). Apparent CL and apparent Vc are allometrically scaled to body weight (exponents 0.75 and 1) and modified by linear deviations from a serum sodium reference of 136 mmol/L; apparent CL is further reduced by 28.3% in the paper-defined high-mortality-risk stratum.
Cisplatin (Boer 2015) Two-compartment population PK model for long-term circulating platinum (Pt) decay after cisplatin-based chemotherapy in adult testicular cancer survivors followed 1-13 years post-treatment (Boer 2015). Dose is the cumulative cisplatin dose expressed as elemental Pt in mg (multiply cumulative cisplatin in mg by 0.6502, the Pt/cisplatin mass ratio 195.08/300.05). An apparent bioavailability F1 (fdepot) accounts for the fraction of the administered Pt remaining in the body after the rapid pre-measurement urinary-excretion phase. Pt is assumed to be cleared solely via urine.
Cladribine (Savic 2017) Population PK model for cladribine (CdA) in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (Savic 2017): three-compartment disposition with first-order oral absorption, separate fasted vs fed (or unknown food-state) absorption parameters, renal clearance proportional to Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance, and a multiplicative non-renal-clearance effect of concomitant subcutaneous interferon beta-1a coadministration.
Clarithromycin (Abduljalil 2009) Semimechanistic population pharmacokinetic model for oral clarithromycin and its 14-(R)-hydroxy metabolite during repeated b.i.d. administration (Abduljalil 2009): a single-phase Weibull absorption (kw, lambda) into a one-compartment parent disposition with linear distribution and a parent clearance that is partly inhibited by the parent’s own concentration in a hypothetical effect-style inhibition compartment (Imax form with FCLp = fraction of CLp not subject to inhibition and IC50 = inhibition-compartment concentration giving 50% of maximum inhibition); all parent metabolic clearance feeds a parallel one-compartment metabolite disposition (14-OH-clarithromycin). Body weight enters allometrically with fixed exponents 0.75 on CL and 1.0 on V (parent and metabolite), reference 70 kg.
Clesrovimab (Hu 2026) Two-compartment population PK model for clesrovimab in preterm and full-term infants (Hu 2026)
Clindamycin (Muller 2010) Three-compartment intravenous popPK model for clindamycin in pregnant women during the peripartum period (Muller 2010). Fit to 175 maternal venous serum concentrations from 7 women receiving either 600 mg over 20 min every 6 h (endocarditis prophylaxis) or 900 mg over 30 min every 8 h (group B streptococcal disease prophylaxis). No covariates were retained in the final model; demographic and laboratory screens (maternal age, gestational age, BMI, weight, edema, temperature, creatinine, ALP, AST, ALT, mode of delivery) are documented in covariatesDataExcluded. Proportional residual error with a per-subject log-normal scaling eta on the residual error magnitude (NONMEM omega-sigma interaction with an extra ETA on epsilon).
Clindamycin (Smith 2017) One-compartment population PK model for intravenous clindamycin in obese and nonobese children, with allometric total body weight on CL and V, sigmoidal Hill maturation on CL by postmenstrual age, and power effects of serum albumin and alpha-1 acid glycoprotein on V (Smith 2017).
Clomethiazole (Zingmark 2003) Two-compartment intravenous population PK model for clomethiazole (Zingmark 2003) in 774 adult acute-stroke patients dosed with a three-phase IV infusion of clomethiazole edisilate over 24 h (6 mg/kg over 0.25 h then 31 mg/kg over 0.25-8 h then 31 mg/kg over 8-24 h, total 68 mg/kg edisilate). The structural model is parameterized in CL/V1/Q/V2 with body weight as a linear covariate on V1 and V2 and a piecewise-linear covariate on CL (linear up to WT50 = 100 kg, constant above) plus a multiplicative effect of concomitant liver-enzyme- inducing drugs (carbamazepine, phenytoin, rifampicin) on CL. IIV uses parameter-specific etas combined with a shared eta common to all four PK parameters (paper text: attributed to clomethiazole adsorption to the infusion tubing) – the joint structure induces a single pairwise correlation among the structural parameters. The paper also reports a proportional-odds sedation-score PD model with a sensitive/non-sensitive mixture component; that PD layer is not encoded here – it requires a NONMEM MIXNUM-style mixture construct that is not naturally expressed in nlmixr2 / rxode2 model files, and the NIH stroke-scale covariate is not yet in the canonical covariate register. See the validation vignette’s Assumptions and deviations section.
Clopidogrel (Danielak 2017) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for oral clopidogrel and its active thiol H4 metabolite (the antiplatelet-active diastereomer) in adult Caucasian patients undergoing elective coronarography or percutaneous coronary intervention on chronic clopidogrel 75 mg/day (Danielak 2017). Clopidogrel is described by a one-compartment model with first-order absorption (rate constant ka = source k12) and first-order elimination (CL/F = source CL/F, V/F = source V2/F). The H4 metabolite is described by a one-compartment model with irreversible first-order formation from clopidogrel central at the rate FM * CL/F * (clopidogrel central / Vc) and first-order elimination (CL_h4/F = source Q2/F, V_h4/F = source V3/F). FM was constrained to <= 20% in the source fit because clopidogrel undergoes extensive first-pass metabolism to the inactive carboxylic acid (the competing CES1 pathway accounts for ~85% of the absorbed dose); the final estimate is FM = 4.5%. H4 plasma concentrations were assayed after bromo-3’-methoxyacetophenone derivatisation of the labile thiol and were adjusted to the mass equivalent of clopidogrel, so the parent <-> H4 flux carries 1:1 molar / mass-equivalent stoichiometry. Inter-individual variability is reported on ka, V/F, CL/F, and FM with a covariance between ka and V/F. The only retained covariate is CYP2C19*2 carriage on FM (linear-deviation effect, e_cyp2c19_s2_fm = -0.45); carriers convert 45% less of the absorbed dose to the active H4 metabolite. Bioavailability F was assumed to be unity (typical value 1, not estimated because no IV clopidogrel data exist). Residual error is proportional on the linear-concentration scale for both observed analytes; M3-method handling was used for samples below the quantitation limit (0.25 ng/mL for both clopidogrel and H4).
Clozapine (Li 2012) One-compartment parent-plus-metabolite population PK model for oral clozapine and its primary active metabolite norclozapine (N-desmethylclozapine) in 162 Chinese adult inpatients (74 male, 88 female; 35.5 +/- 10.6 years) with refractory schizophrenia on maintenance oral clozapine therapy (Li 2012). First-order absorption (Ka fixed at 1.3 1/h from prior rich-data clozapine PK studies) into a single central compartment with first-order elimination; a fixed fraction (KF = 0.66) of the absorbed clozapine dose is converted in the parent central compartment to norclozapine and feeds a separate one-compartment metabolite compartment with its own apparent clearance and apparent volume. Two binary covariates were retained in the final forward-and-backward-selected model: current-smoker status increases apparent clearance of both species (clozapine by 45%, norclozapine by 54.3%), and male sex increases apparent clearance of both species (clozapine by 20.8%, norclozapine by 24.2%); the typical values reported in Table 2 are for the female-nonsmoker reference stratum. A combined additive-plus-proportional residual error model is reported separately for clozapine and norclozapine. The model was internally validated using normalized prediction distribution errors (NPDE).
Colistin (Jacobs 2016) Two-state parent-metabolite population PK model for colistimethate sodium (CMS, prodrug) and colistin (active polymyxin) in critically ill ICU patients with acute renal failure requiring intermittent hemodialysis (n=8). One compartment each for CMS and colistin. CMS renal clearance is structurally fixed at 0 (anuric HD population); the estimated CMS clearance is therefore nonrenal (CL_NRCMS). Colistin disposition is parameterised in apparent units (V_col/f_m and CL_col/f_m) because the fraction f_m of nonrenally cleared CMS that becomes colistin is not separately identifiable from plasma data. Hemodialysis clearances of CMS (90 mL/min) and colistin (137 mL/min) are fixed experimental constants from Marchand 2010 (ref 7 of Jacobs 2016) and are gated on/off by the time-varying DIAL covariate; PK sampling in the source study was conducted between HD sessions, so DIAL = 0 over the model-fit data.
Colistin (Karaiskos 2015) Population PK model for colistimethate sodium (CMS, prodrug) and colistin (active polymyxin formed by in vivo hydrolysis) in critically ill adults after a 9 MU CMS loading dose. CMS distributes through four compartments representing two states of the prodrug (CMS1 = more fully sulfomethylated, CMS2 = partially sulfomethylated derivatives); each state has central and peripheral compartments sharing volumes Vc and Vp but distinct inter-compartmental clearances Q1 and Q2. The same nonrenal clearance CL_NR drives the first-order hydrolysis CMS1 -> CMS2 (in both central and peripheral, with the same rate constant) and CMS2 -> colistin (central only); CMS1 and CMS2 central compartments are additionally cleared by renal clearance proportional to creatinine clearance. Colistin disposition follows a one-compartment model with apparent clearance and volume (CL/fm, V/fm) scaled to the unknown fraction of administered CMS converted to colistin. Measured colistimethate concentration is the sum of CMS1 and CMS2 central concentrations.
Colistin (Mohamed 2012) Two-compartment population PK model for colistin methanesulfonate (CMS, prodrug) plus a one-compartment apparent model for colistin (formed metabolite) in critically ill patients, with concentration-dependent unbound fraction of colistin A and a semimechanistic Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterial-kill PKPD (susceptible / resting compartments from Bulitta 2010)
Colistin (Plachouras 2009) Two-compartment population PK model for colistin methanesulfonate (CMS, prodrug) and one-compartment model for the formed colistin (active metabolite) in critically ill adults receiving 3 MU q8h IV CMS for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections (Plachouras 2009). Colistin metabolite parameters are apparent values scaled by the unknown fraction (fm) of CMS that forms colistin (CL_col is CL/fm; Vc_col is V/fm).
Concizumab (Yuan 2019) QSP. Systems PK/PD model for concizumab (humanized anti-TFPI IgG4) describing binding to both membrane-bound TFPI (mTFPI; non-linear clearance via receptor-mediated endocytosis) and soluble TFPI (sTFPI; linear clearance via FcRn-recycled pinocytosis) in a minimal physiologically-based PK framework with two nested endothelial endosome compartments. Parameter values for 70 kg adult humans (Yuan 2019 Tables 1-2); the paper also tabulates monkey and rabbit parameter sets.
Crisantaspase (Sassen 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous Erwinia asparaginase (crisantaspase; Erwinase) in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients, with allometric scaling on clearance and volumes and a higher first-month clearance (Sassen 2017).
Cyclophosphamide mouse (Campagne 2019) Preclinical (mouse). Plasma and brain/tumor extracellular-fluid (ECF) population PK model for cyclophosphamide (CTX) and its sequential metabolites 4-hydroxy-cyclophosphamide (4OH-CTX) and carboxyethylphosphoramide mustard (CEPM) in female CD-1 nude mice (non-tumor-bearing and orthotopic Group 3 medulloblastoma G3MB), following a single 130 mg/kg intraperitoneal dose of cyclophosphamide (Campagne 2019). Three sequential two-compartment plasma sub-models are linked by full (Fm = 1) conversion CTX -> 4OH-CTX -> CEPM (so reported CL and V for the two metabolites are apparent CL/F and V/F); each compound additionally has a one-compartment brain/tumor ECF sub-model linked to its plasma central via influx (CLin) and efflux (CLef) clearances driven by the unbound plasma concentration FU x Cp. ECF volume fixed at 0.001 L/kg (Stewart 2010, ref 26 of source). No covariate effects retained; pooled fit across non-tumor-bearing and G3MB mice.
Cyclosporin (Debord 2001) Two-compartment population PK model for oral cyclosporin microemulsion (Neoral) in stable renal transplant recipients (Debord 2001), with a gamma-distribution absorption (Savic 2007 analytical transit-compartment form) feeding the central compartment directly, F fixed to 1, and population typical values derived from the means of the 21 individually-fitted patients in Table I of the paper.
Cyclosporine (Philippe 2015) Pediatric PK-PD-time-to-event model for oral cyclosporine in children with severe aplastic anemia (Philippe 2015). PK is a two-compartment model with first-order absorption, lag time, and linear elimination; absorption parameters (F, Tlag, ka) are fixed from the literature, and V1, V2, Cl, Q are allometrically scaled to body weight (reference 34 kg; fixed exponents 0.75 on clearance and 1 on volume). The pharmacodynamic interface model (Eq. 5) describes an effective concentration Ce driven by the predicted trough concentration Ctrough, with production active only when Ctrough lies inside an effective range (lower bound gamma1 = 87 ng/mL, upper bound gamma2 = 120 ng/mL) and first-order elimination at rate alpha. The instantaneous hazard of neutrophil response (Eq. 6) is lambda(t) = lambda0 * (1 + slope * Ce); cumhaz and sur are exposed as derived outputs. In this implementation the predicted Cc (multiplied by 1000 to convert mg/L to ng/mL) is used as the Ctrough input to the interface model; see vignette Assumptions and deviations for the full justification.
Cysteamine (Belldina 2003) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption and an absorption lag, sequentially linked to a one-compartment effect-site PD model with fractional inhibitory Emax (Hill = 1) for white-blood-cell cystine content reduction by cysteamine in 11 paediatric and young-adult patients (age 3-15 y, weight 14.3-60.2 kg) with nephropathic cystinosis at steady state on cysteamine bitartrate (Cystagon) approximately every 6 hours. PK and PD parameters in the source paper were estimated as individual NONMEM fits per subject and summarised as arithmetic mean / geometric mean / median / min / max across the 11 patients (Tables 2 and 3); this package encodes the arithmetic means as the typical values, with linear allometric weight scaling fixed at exponent 1.0 to reflect the paper’s per-kg parameterisation of all clearance and volume terms. Dose is in mg cysteamine bitartrate salt (MW 227.24 g/mol); the model converts internally to plasma cysteamine in micromolar (free-base moiety, MW 77.15 g/mol, the measured analyte). PD output cystine is white-blood-cell cystine content in nmol cystine per mg protein.
Dabigatran (Liesenfeld 2013) Two-compartment population PK model for oral dabigatran (after dabigatran etexilate prodrug) in seven end-stage renal disease (ESRD) subjects undergoing intermittent hemodialysis, with first-order absorption, absorption lag, an apparent total body clearance (renal + non-renal), and an apparent dialysis clearance described by the Michaels equation as a function of blood and dialysate flow rates and a hemodialyzer mass transfer-area coefficient (Liesenfeld 2013).
Dabigatran aPTT (Liesenfeld 2006) Pharmacodynamic model for the prolongation of activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) by dabigatran in orthopaedic surgery patients receiving oral dabigatran etexilate after total hip replacement (Liesenfeld 2006 BISTRO I PK-PD analysis). The concentration-aPTT relationship combines a linear and an Emax model; the baseline aPTT and the maximum nonlinear effect Emax both decline with time since surgery via a proportional inhibitory Emax form sharing a single ET50. Covariate analysis retained no demographic, comedication, or laboratory variables. The 2006 paper does not develop a PK model; the PK component embedded here is the Liesenfeld 2013 two-compartment dabigatran disposition with all PK thetas fixed so the model is self-contained for simulation. The 2013 PK was fit in end-stage renal-disease subjects and will overestimate dabigatran exposure for the 2006 BISTRO I orthopaedic-surgery population; users targeting BISTRO I-style scenarios should override the PK thetas or supply observed concentrations to the PD layer.
Dabigatran ECT (Liesenfeld 2006) Pharmacodynamic model for the prolongation of ecarin clotting time (ECT) by dabigatran in orthopaedic surgery patients receiving oral dabigatran etexilate after total hip replacement (Liesenfeld 2006 BISTRO I PK-PD analysis). The concentration-ECT relationship is a single linear function whose slope decays exponentially from an initial value SLO0 to a final value SLO_F with rate constant KM; the baseline ECT also declines with time-since-surgery via a proportional inhibitory Emax form. Covariate analysis retained no demographic, comedication, or laboratory variables. The 2006 paper does not develop a PK model; the PK component embedded here is the Liesenfeld 2013 two-compartment dabigatran disposition with all PK thetas fixed so the model is self-contained for simulation. The 2013 PK was fit in end-stage renal-disease subjects and will overestimate dabigatran exposure for the 2006 BISTRO I orthopaedic- surgery population; users targeting BISTRO I-style scenarios should override the PK thetas or supply observed concentrations to the PD layer.
Daclizumab (Othman 2014) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order subcutaneous absorption and lag time for daclizumab high-yield process (HYP) in healthy volunteers (Othman 2014)
Daclizumab cd25 (Diao 2016) Sigmoidal Emax PK/PD model of CD25 receptor occupancy on peripheral CD4+ T cells following subcutaneous daclizumab high-yield process (HYP) in adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (Diao 2016). The PD output is the percentage of CD4+ T cells staining positive for unoccupied CD25 (i.e., the unbound CD25 fraction). The PK backbone is the two-compartment, first-order SC absorption + lag model from Othman 2014 (file inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Othman_2014_daclizumab.R), copied verbatim with weight-based allometric scaling.
Daclizumab cd56bright (Diao 2016) Indirect-response PK/PD model of CD56 bright natural killer (NK) cell expansion following subcutaneous daclizumab high-yield process (HYP) in adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (Diao 2016). Daclizumab HYP serum concentration stimulates the zero-order production rate (Kin) of CD56 bright NK cells (% of all lymphocytes) via a saturable Smax function; first-order elimination rate Kout is fixed by the median baseline. The PK backbone is the two-compartment, first-order SC absorption + lag model from Othman 2014 (file inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Othman_2014_daclizumab.R), copied verbatim with weight-based allometric scaling.
Daclizumab treg (Diao 2016) Sigmoidal Emax PK/PD model of regulatory T cell (Treg) reduction following subcutaneous daclizumab high-yield process (HYP) in adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (Diao 2016). The PD output is the percentage of Treg (CD4+ CD127low/- Foxp3+) among all CD4+ T cells; daclizumab HYP serum concentration drives a maximum 60% reduction via a sigmoidal Emax function. The PK backbone is the two-compartment, first-order SC absorption + lag model from Othman 2014 (file inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Othman_2014_daclizumab.R), copied verbatim with weight-based allometric scaling.
Dapagliflozin (vanderWalt 2013) Semi-mechanistic joint parent-metabolite population PK model for dapagliflozin and its inactive UGT1A9 glucuronide metabolite dapagliflozin 3-O-glucuronide (D3OG, identified as M15 in chromatography) in healthy adults, T2DM subjects with normal or impaired renal function, and patients with hepatic impairment (van der Walt 2013). Parent: 2-compartment disposition with first-order absorption fed by a Savic 2007 transit-compartment chain (continuous N estimated alongside MTT) and a logit bioavailability anchor; three parallel parent elimination pathways are estimated separately as renal excretion of unchanged dapagliflozin (CLP_renal, proportional to baseline creatinine clearance), metabolic formation of D3OG (CLP_M15), and metabolic clearance to unmeasured metabolites (CLP_other, allometrically scaled like CLP_M15). Metabolite: 1-compartment with renal elimination CLM proportional to creatinine clearance. Plasma observations only are emulated here – the source paper also fitted urine dapagliflozin and D3OG concentrations simultaneously with a replicate residual-error structure; see the validation vignette for the urine and replicate-residual deviations. Covariates: creatinine clearance (CRCL; IBW-corrected, mL/min) on CLP_M15, CLP_renal, and CLM; AGE on CLP_other; Child-Pugh Class C (HEPIMP_SEV) on CLP_M15 and V2M; Child-Pugh Class B or C (HEPIMP_MODSEV) on V3P and CLM; female sex (SEXF) on total CLP and on CLM; allometric WT scaling on CLP_M15, CLP_other, V2P, V3P, V2M.
Dapsone (Gatti 1996) One-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption and first-order elimination for dapsone 100 mg twice weekly oral Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis in 53 HIV-infected adults (Gatti 1996). Apparent clearance CL/F and apparent central volume V/F are scaled multiplicatively by concomitant rifampin co-administration (shared 69.6% increase on both parameters, reflecting a first-pass / bioavailability effect). Apparent absorption rate constant Ka is scaled multiplicatively by total serum bilirubin (per-mg/dL fractional decrease). IIV on CL/F (35% CV) and Ka (85% CV); V/F inter-individual variability was found non-significant after covariate inclusion and dropped from the final model. Residual-error magnitudes were not reported in the publication; propSd and addSd are FIXED at 0 in this packaged model so users must supply their own residual error to run any stochastic VPC – see the validation vignette’s Errata section.
Dapsone (Hall 2017) One-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption for dapsone in healthy US adults across a wide weight range; covariate effects on Ka, CL, and Vc are encoded via the published MARS piecewise-linear basis functions of weight, age, and blood urea nitrogen (Hall 2017).
Daptomycin (Garonzik 2016) In vitro (Staphylococcus aureus USA300, methicillin-resistant CA-MRSA reference strain). Mechanism-based mathematical pharmacodynamic (MBM) model of daptomycin time-kill activity in supplemented Mueller-Hinton broth with 0%, 10%, 30%, 50%, or 70% v/v heat-inactivated human serum. The bacterial population is split into three subpopulations of decreasing daptomycin susceptibility (susceptible, intermediate, resistant), each described by two states (state 1 vegetative, state 2 replicating; six bacterial compartments total). Replication of state 2 cells back into state 1 is gated by a successful-replication probability (REP = 2 x Plateau, with Plateau saturating at a maximum CFU/mL CFUm), and the vegetative-to-replicating transition k12 is modulated by an exponential lag-phase term (Eq 3) and a saturable carrying-capacity term (Eq 7) parameterised by Imax_k12 and IC50_k12. Daptomycin acts on each subpopulation via two mechanisms: a Hill-type stimulation of the probability of death (STI; reduces successful replication via IREP = 1 - STI) and a Hill-type direct killing of bacteria (Kill); the relative balance of the two is the dominant pharmacodynamic feature, with SC50 (0.05 mg/L) much lower than KC50 (4.8 mg/L). The intermediate and resistant subpopulations share the same SC50 and KC50 but have reduced Smax and Kmax (Smax_r and Kmax_r fixed to 0) and the resistant subpopulation has a slower vegetative-to-replicating transition (FR_K12r = 0.0442). Protein binding by human serum is encoded as an ‘active fraction’ factive(HS) multiplying the total static daptomycin concentration to give an effective drug concentration DAP_EF; the active fraction takes five experimental levels (factive = 1 at 0% HS, then 0.346, 0.284, 0.239, 0.252 at 10%, 30%, 50%, 70% HS). The model is in-vitro PD only – there is no human PK component; daptomycin is dosed once at t = 0 into the dap compartment and is chemically stable in the medium for the 24-h experiment. Random effects (eta) are NOT present: the paper reports replicate-level experimental fits with additive plus small-count Poisson residual error on log10 CFU/mL.
Daratumumab (Xu 2020) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous daratumumab (anti-CD38 IgG1k) in adults with multiple myeloma, with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten eliminations from the central compartment. The maximum velocity of the saturable (target-mediated) elimination decays mono-exponentially from its baseline value at first-order rate KDES, mimicking depletion of the CD38 target over weekly 16 mg/kg therapy (Xu 2020 MMY1001 D-Kd / D-KRd cohorts).
Datopotamab (Hong 2025) Coupled population PK model for datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd, anti-TROP2 antibody-drug conjugate) and its released payload DXd in adults with advanced solid tumors (Hong 2025). Dato-DXd disposition is a two-compartment model with parallel linear (CL_lin) and Michaelis-Menten (Vmax / Km) elimination from the central compartment. DXd is a one-compartment model whose formation rate equals the total Dato-DXd elimination rate (linear + nonlinear) scaled by the molecular-weight ratio (493.5 / 150000) and a time-and-cycle-dependent drug-to-antibody ratio DAR(tad, CYCLE) = 4 * (0.25 + 0.75 * exp(-beta * tad)) * (1 if CYCLE = 1 else Factor1). Body weight is included as a mechanistic covariate with a fixed allometric exponent of 0.75 on Dato-DXd linear clearance and estimated exponents on Dato-DXd volumes (paper Eq. 8-10) and on DXd CL/Vc (Eq. 14-15).
Daunorubicin (Varatharajan 2016) Population PK model for IV daunorubicin (Dnr) and its primary carbonyl-reductase metabolite daunorubicinol (DOL) in adult de novo acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients (Varatharajan 2016). Each component (parent and metabolite) is described by an independent two-compartment disposition parameterised on apparent clearance, central volume, and the inter-compartmental rate constants K12 and K21. Daunorubicin is converted to daunorubicinol via parent elimination (the model assumes the fraction metabolised fm = 1, so the published DOL CL and V are ‘apparent’ values that absorb fm). No covariates were retained in the final structural model; demographic / pharmacogenetic associations in the paper are reported on post hoc empirical-Bayes estimates rather than as fixed-effects covariate parameters.
Daunorubicin liposomal (Hempel 2003) One-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for total daunorubicin (free plus liposome-encapsulated) following liposomal daunorubicin (Daunoxome) in paediatric and adolescent oncology patients (Hempel 2003). Clearance and volume of distribution scale linearly with total body weight (CL = theta_CL * WT; V = theta_V * WT, i.e. the source paper’s per-kg parameterisation with allometric exponent fixed to 1 and no reference-weight normalisation). The final model (Table 2 model 15) retains inter-individual variability on CL (51% CV) and V (27% CV), inter-occasion variability on CL (16.7% CV) – documented but NOT encoded structurally here, per the Andrews 2017 / Brooks 2021 nlmixr2lib precedent for IOV without an operational occasion column – and a proportional residual error (22%). Distinct from Varatharajan_2016_daunorubicin (free daunorubicin + daunorubicinol metabolite in adult AML).
Decitabine (Han 2015) Two-compartment IV population pharmacokinetic model coupled with two parallel Friberg-style myelosuppression PD chains (absolute neutrophil count, ANC, and platelet count, PC) for decitabine post-transplant maintenance in adult Korean patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome or secondary acute myeloid leukemia (Han 2015). The platelet feedback baseline rises asymptotically over cycles per the paper’s IMP / IMK extension (BASE_P_t = BASE_P + IMP * (1 - exp(-IMK * t))); the neutrophil chain uses a time-invariant baseline. PK parameters are body-surface-area-normalized (per m^2): doses must be supplied in mg/m^2 and central-compartment concentrations are returned in mg/L (= ug/mL = 1000 ng/mL). PD outputs ANC and PLT are in 10^9 cells/L.
Deferoxamine (Bellanti 2015) Indirect-response disease model for serum ferritin in chronic transfusional iron overload (beta-thalassaemia major) with proportional deferoxamine effect on ferritin degradation rate. Two-compartment 8-h SC-infusion deferoxamine PK (literature-derived) enters as a time-varying steady-state concentration covariate; the ferritin compartment captures the baseline turnover (Kin, Kout), the disease-status-modulated transfusion-driven production (CRT), and the chelator effect (1 + DFO) on Kout.
Desmopressin (Agerso 2004) Three-compartment population PK model for intravenous desmopressin with simultaneous plasma and urinary-amount outputs. Systemic clearance is split into renal and non-renal components, each modulated linearly by creatinine clearance (CRCL), in healthy subjects and patients with varying degrees of renal impairment (Agerso 2004).
Desmopressin (Schutte 2018) Two-compartment apparent population PK model describing the time profile of endogenous factor VIII coagulant activity (FVIII:C) following a desmopressin (DDAVP) administration in nonsevere haemophilia A patients (Schutte 2018; final covariate model with FVIII-recent on baseline FVIII, V1 and CL). Desmopressin is the administered intervention; the apparent PK parameters describe the resulting endogenous FVIII:C release as if it were a unit-dose drug input (the source paper fixed the dose to unity because no FVIII concentrate was infused).
Dexamethasone rat (Li 2012) Preclinical (rat). Mechanism-based PK/PD model for CYP3A1/2 induction by dexamethasone (DEX, single 100 mg/kg ip dose) in male Sprague-Dawley rats. PK is a two-compartment mammillary model with zero-order ip absorption of duration T0 directly into the central compartment (no first-order rate constant; CL/F, Q/F, Vc/F, Vp/F all reported as kg-normalised apparent values). PK BSV is exponential and is retained only on Q/F (all other PK BSVs were not significant). The PD cascade describes CYP3A1 and CYP3A2 induction at three molecular levels: (1) mRNA dynamics use an indirect-response (Dayneka-style) model in which a Hill-type fractional occupancy of CYP3A DNA-responsive elements by the DEX-PXR complex (FO = Cp^gamma / (SC50^gamma + Cp^gamma)) drives a stimulation signal Si,0 = Smax * FO that flows through a per-isoform chain of transit compartments with mean transit time tau (one compartment for CYP3A1, eight compartments for CYP3A2) before stimulating mRNA synthesis as d/dt(mRNAi) = kin,i * (1 + Si,ni) - kout,i * mRNAi. (2) Protein dynamics translate mRNA to CYP3A protein via d/dt(CYP3Ai) = ksyn,i * mRNAi^mi - kdeg,i * CYP3Ai, where the per-isoform amplification factor mi is a paper-mechanistic power exponent on mRNA. (3) Enzyme activity (rate of 6beta-hydroxytestosterone formation) is the algebraic linear combination EA = alpha * CYP3A1 + beta * CYP3A2 with per-isoform turnover-number rates alpha and beta (pmol 6beta-OHT / min / pmol CYP3A). The PK and PD layers were fit sequentially in NONMEM 7.1.2 with FOCE+I, the PK model first then the PD layers simultaneously with PK fixed. Three PD layers were fit by the naive pool approach (each animal contributed one PD observation per time point), so no PD IIVs are present. Numbers of transit compartments (n1 = 1, n2 = 8) are paper-mechanistic fixed structural integers.
Dexmedetomidine (Perez-Guille 2018) Two-compartment IV population PK with sigmoidal Imax PD on heart rate (HR) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) fractional responses for dexmedetomidine in Mexican Mestizo children (2-18 y) undergoing ambulatory surgery, with a priori allometric scaling on CL and Q (exponent 0.75) and V1 and V2 (exponent 1) at a 70 kg reference weight (Perez-Guille et al. 2018, Tables 2 and 3, allometric model)
Dexmedetomidine (Smuszkiewicz 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous dexmedetomidine continuous infusion in adult ICU patients undergoing analgosedation (Smuszkiewicz 2017). 27 medical and surgical ICU patients (17 male, 10 female; median age 59.5 y, median weight 75 kg) received continuous infusions of 0.1-1.5 ug/kg/h for 23.7-102 h. Age, sex, body weight, infusion duration, pretreatment SOFA score, and inotrope use were screened as covariates but none reached statistical significance, so the final model contains no covariate effects. IIVs on Vc, CL, Vp, and Q are diagonal (no clear correlations). Proportional residual error.
Dexmedetomidine (Talke 2018) Three-compartment IV population PK plus effect-compartment sigmoid Emax PD model for dexmedetomidine-induced peripheral vasoconstriction (ADC units from finger photoplethysmography) in healthy adult volunteers, with a priori allometric body-weight scaling on CL, Q2, Q3 (exponent 0.75) and V1, V2, V3 (exponent 1) at a 70 kg reference weight (Talke and Anderson 2018, Tables 3 and 4)
Diazepam (Ku 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous diazepam in children aged 3 months to 18 years treated for status epilepticus. Clearance, central volume, inter-compartmental clearance, and peripheral volume scale allometrically with total body weight referenced to a 70 kg adult (fixed exponents 0.75 on CL and Q; 1 on V1 and V2). IIV is estimated on CL and V1 only; IIV on Q and V2 was held fixed at 0 in the final model to avoid >50% shrinkage. Proportional residual error.
Didanosine (Hirt 2009) One-compartment population PK model for didanosine (ddI) administered once daily as buffered chewable Videx tablets in West African HIV-1-infected children; first-order absorption with ka fixed at 4 1/h, additive residual error, exponential IIV on CL/F and Vc/F with off-diagonal covariance
Digoxin (Jelliffe 2014) Two-compartment population PK/PD model of digoxin in adults with first-order oral absorption, creatinine-clearance-dependent renal elimination, and a peripheral effect compartment normalized per body weight (Jelliffe et al. 2014, Ther Drug Monit; structural parameters carried from Reuning et al. 1973).
Digoxin (Zhou 2010) One-compartment first-order oral absorption population PK model of digoxin in older Chinese patients (Zhou 2010, Acta Pharmacol Sin); concomitant spironolactone, body weight, and serum creatinine modify Cl/F via multiplicative linear-deviation terms.
Dihydroartemisinin (Tarning 2012) One-compartment population PK model for oral dihydroartemisinin (parent drug, dosed as a fixed-dose tablet co-formulated with piperaquine) in 24 pregnant (second / third trimester) and 24 matched non-pregnant women with uncomplicated malaria on the Thai-Myanmar border (Tarning 2012 AAC). Transit-compartment absorption with 7 fixed transit compartments (ktr = (n+1)/MTT with n=7); drug-transit rate is set equal to the absorption rate from the last transit to central (single estimated ktr). Allometric scaling of CL/F (exponent 3/4) and V/F (exponent 1) on body weight centered at the cohort median 48.5 kg. F fixed at 1 with log-normal IIV (CV 30.3%); proportional pregnancy effect on F (-37.5%) and linear effect of log10 admission parasitaemia on F (+27.8% per log10 unit centered at 3.98). IIV on V/F (12.8% CV); between-occasion variability (BOV across 3 dose occasions) on MTT (50.9% CV) multiplexed by the OCC indicator. Additive residual on natural-log concentrations (sigma = 0.580), encoded as proportional residual on the linear-concentration scale per Kloprogge 2018 lumefantrine precedent. Companion file Tarning_2012_piperaquine.R models the co-administered piperaquine arm.
Dilmapimod (Yang 2016) Three-compartment IV population PK model for dilmapimod (SB-681323, a p38 MAPK inhibitor) coupled with an empirical indirect-response model for the inflammatory biomarker C-reactive protein (CRP) in severe-trauma adults at risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome (Yang 2016). BMI is a power covariate on CL and Q2. No statistically significant dilmapimod effect on CRP was retained in the final PD model, so the CRP component is an empirical post-injury production-decline / first-order-loss profile that is decoupled from dilmapimod exposure (Yang 2016 Results section 3.3.1).
Docetaxel (Ozawa 2007) Three-compartment IV PK coupled with a modified Friberg-style semimechanistic-physiological PK/PD model for docetaxel-induced neutropenia in Japanese cancer patients (Ozawa 2007). The PD layer extends Friberg 2002 with an additional zero-order input compartment that captures the transient ANC increase attributable to dexamethasone premedication; alpha-1 acid glycoprotein modulates the linear drug-effect slope on the proliferating compartment via a power-law form. Per-subject baseline ANC is supplied as a covariate and is used to initialise the proliferation, transit, and circulating compartments.
Domagrozumab (Wojciechowski 2022) Quasi-steady-state TMDD population PK/PD model for domagrozumab (anti-myostatin IgG1) in healthy adult volunteers and pediatric patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Wojciechowski 2022): two-compartment IV/SC drug disposition with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination, a synthesis-degradation total-myostatin compartment with drug-mediated internalization, and a study-population covariate (DIS_DMD) shifting myostatin baseline and turnover.
Donidalorsen (Diep 2026) Two-compartment population PK and indirect-response PD model for the GalNAc3-conjugated antisense oligonucleotide donidalorsen targeting prekallikrein (PKK) mRNA, fit to pooled data from phase 1 to phase 3 studies in healthy volunteers and patients with hereditary angioedema (Diep 2026). First-order SC absorption with categorical covariates on ka (arm vs abdomen/thigh injection site; autoinjector vs vial drug presentation), allometric scaling of CL/F, Vc/F, Q/F, and Vp/F on total body weight with paper-estimated exponents, multiplicative disease-status effects on Vc/F and Q/F, full 5x5 omega block on PK random effects, and an indirect-response model with donidalorsen-driven inhibition of PKK production carrying multiplicative disease-status effects on baseline PKK and IC50.
Doripenem (AbdulAziz 2016) Two-compartment IV population PK model for doripenem in 12 Malaysian critically ill adults with sepsis receiving 500 mg as a 1-hour infusion every 8 hours (Abdul-Aziz 2016). Reported on free (unbound) doripenem; observed total concentrations were corrected by multiplying by 0.90 to account for ~10% protein binding. Body-weight allometric scaling is fixed (0.75 on CL/Q, 1 on V1/V2, reference 70 kg); Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance has an exponential effect on CL centred at the cohort mean 82.5 mL/min.
Doripenem (Lee 2017) One-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for doripenem in 37 Korean adults with acute infections (pyelonephritis, intra-abdominal infection, neutropenic fever) and CLCR ranging 20-50 or >50 mL/min (Lee 2017). Clearance and central volume scale linearly with body weight (CL/WT = 0.109 L/h/kg, V/WT = 0.280 L/kg at WT=70 kg, CLCR=57 mL/min); CL additionally scales by a power exponent on Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance (raw mL/min, reference 57).
Dostarlimab (Kuchimanchi 2024) Two-compartment population PK model for dostarlimab (anti-PD-1 IgG4) with sigmoid I_max time-dependent clearance, fitted to GARNET (advanced solid tumours) plus RUBY Part 1 (primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer with carboplatin-paclitaxel) data (Kuchimanchi 2024)
Dostarlimab (Melhem 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for dostarlimab (anti-PD-1 IgG4) with time-dependent (sigmoid I_max) clearance in adults with advanced solid tumours (Melhem 2022)
Doxorubicin (Kunarajah 2017) Population PK/PD model for IV doxorubicin (3-compartment) with first-order metabolism to doxorubicinol (1-compartment) and a cardiac troponin I (cTnI) turnover sub-model in paediatric oncology patients (Kunarajah 2017). Body surface area enters as a linear factor on every clearance and volume parameter; age enters as an additional power factor on doxorubicin clearance. The cTnI turnover sub-model is driven by a saturable Emax stimulation of cTnI synthesis by the combined doxorubicin + doxorubicinol plasma concentration, with the cTnI baseline shifted linearly by the prior cumulative anthracyclines dose received by the patient before the first dose analysed.
Doxycycline (Hopkins 2017) Two-compartment oral population PK model for doxycycline with two transit absorption compartments, fat-free-mass allometric scaling (CL exponent 0.75, V exponent 1.0, reference 70 kg FFM), and Doryx tablet (reference) / Doryx MPC delayed-release tablet / Doryx capsule formulation effects on relative bioavailability and absorption rate, plus a food (fed-status) effect on relative bioavailability and a formulation-dependent food effect on transit rate, plus a 14.4% increase in CL for female sex. Pooled from eight phase 1 healthy-volunteer trials (n = 178).
Dupilumab (Kovalenko 2016) Dupilumab exploratory population PK model (Kovalenko 2016; 2-cmt with parallel linear + Michaelis-Menten elimination)
Dupilumab (Kovalenko 2020) Dupilumab PK model (Kovalenko 2020)
Dupilumab (Zhang 2021) Two-compartment population PK model for dupilumab in adult and adolescent patients with asthma (Zhang 2021), with first-order SC absorption and parallel linear plus Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment.
Durvalumab (Ogasawara 2020) Two compartment PK model of durvalumab (anti-PD-L1) in patients with hematologic malignancies (Ogasawara 2020)
Dutasteride (Gisleskog 1999) Two-compartment population PK model for dutasteride (GI198745, a dual type-1/type-2 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor) in healthy male volunteers after single oral doses, with first-order absorption, an absorption lag-time, and parallel linear (CL_l) plus Michaelis-Menten (Vmax / Km) elimination from the central compartment (Gisleskog 1999). All volumes and clearances are apparent (oral, no IV reference); bioavailability is assumed dose-independent.
E7820 human (Keizer 2011) Population PK/PD model for the alpha2-integrin inhibitor E7820 in patients with advanced solid tumors or lymphoma (Keizer 2011 clinical column). One-compartment oral PK with first-order absorption (PK structure and parameter values inherited from an earlier phase I popPK analysis of the same study and reproduced in Keizer 2011 Table II; the absorption model was simplified from the original turnover-absorption form to a first-order form to ease multi-dose simulations). PD is an indirect-response (turnover) model for alpha2-integrin expression on platelets, with an Emax inhibition function (Emax fixed at 1, Hill exponent gamma fixed at 1) acting on the input rate kin. BSV is reported on baseline integrin expression and on drug sensitivity (IC50). No tumor-growth submodel is included in the clinical analysis (Keizer 2011 Figure 3 caption: ‘The clinical model had the same structure, but did not incorporate a sub-model for tumor size’). Parameter values from Keizer 2011 Tables II (clinical PK) and III (clinical integrin PD).
E7820 mouse (Keizer 2011) Preclinical (mouse, female nude with subcutaneous KP-1 pancreatic-carcinoma xenograft). Sequential PK/PD/tumor-growth model for the alpha2-integrin inhibitor E7820 (Keizer 2011). Stage 1: one-compartment oral PK with first-order absorption, per-kg parameterisation. Stage 2: indirect-response (turnover) model for alpha2-integrin expression on platelets, with an Emax inhibition function (Emax fixed at 1, Hill exponent gamma fixed at 1) acting on the input rate kin. Stage 3: exponential tumor growth on diameter with an initial-slow-growth term (1 - exp(-beta*t)) gating the growth rate, and a sigmoidal Emax inhibition driven by relative alpha2-integrin inhibition ((I_base - integrin)/I_base) with Hill coefficient fixed at 5. Parameters from Keizer 2011 Tables II (preclinical PK), III (preclinical integrin PD), and IV (tumor growth).
Efalizumab (Stein 2018) Two-compartment QSS TMDD typical-value fit for efalizumab (anti-CD11a mAb) used to illustrate the critical concentration (Ccrit) for nonlinear PK (Stein and Peletier 2018 Table 1)
Efavirenz (Dhoro 2015) One-compartment population PK model for oral efavirenz in HIV-positive and HIV/TB co-infected adults in Zimbabwe (Dhoro 2015), with apparent clearance CL/F stratified by CYP2B6 983T>C (CYP2B618, rs28399499) genotype and multiplicative fractional covariate effects of CYP2B6 516G>T (CYP2B66, rs3745274) genotype, body weight, and sex on CL/F. Absorption rate constant ka and apparent volume V/F are fixed from the upstream Nyakutira 2008 Zimbabwean cohort.
Efavirenz (Hirt 2009) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and elimination for once-daily oral efavirenz (EFV) in treatment-naive HIV-1-infected West African children (Hirt 2009). CL/F and V/F scale linearly with body weight (shared allometric exponent fixed at 1) and CL/F additionally varies with postnatal age via a power covariate centred at the cohort median 6.35 years (signed exponent -0.535, so apparent clearance decreases with age); the inter-individual variability of V/F is forced to perfect correlation with the eta of CL/F and is constructed as vc_eta_scale * etalcl (the K parameter in Hirt 2009 Table 2); multiplicative residual error.
Efavirenz (Luo 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and elimination for oral efavirenz in pediatric HIV-1-infected patients (Luo 2016). Capsule / capsule-sprinkle formulation; body weight is a power covariate on CL/F, Vc/F, and Ka with reference 20 kg. The adult cohort (n = 24 healthy adults) and oral-solution formulation (study-specific Frel) reported in the same paper are documented in the validation vignette but not encoded as separate sub-models.
Efavirenz (Olagunju 2018) One-compartment population PK model for oral efavirenz in HIV-positive pregnant women (Olagunju 2018), with composite CYP2B6 516G>T (rs3745274) and 983T>C (rs28399499) metaboliser status (slow / intermediate / fast) as a categorical covariate on CL/F and fixed-exponent allometric body-weight scaling on CL/F and V/F.
Efavirenz (Salem 2014) One-compartment population PK model for oral efavirenz in HIV-1-infected children (Salem 2014). Allometric body-weight scaling on apparent clearance (fixed exponent 0.75) and apparent volume of distribution (fixed exponent 1.0) referenced to 70 kg; sigmoid Emax maturation of CL/F with postnatal age (TM50 = 4.6 months, Hill = 3.4); 51% reduction in CL/F for CYP2B6-516 T/T homozygotes; Emax maturation of relative bioavailability for the oral liquid (suspension or solution) formulations vs the capsule reference (mature F = 0.79; TM50 = 10.6 months; Hill fixed at 1).
EGF IFN chimera (DoldanMartelli 2013) In vitro (Daudi human Burkitt lymphoma cell line). Mechanistic kinetic model of an EGF-IFNalpha-2a chimeric ligand binding to EGFR and IFN receptor on the cell membrane: sequential two-subunit engagement, receptor lateral diffusion, and internalization (Doldan-Martelli 2013). Default parameters are wild-type IFN chimera in Daudi-EGFR cells (overexpressing EGFR ~300x parental); k2on / k2off can be overridden for K133A and R144A IFN mutants, and R1_0 / R2_0 for parental Daudi cells (see vignette).
Elotuzumab (Ide 2020) Two-compartment population PK model for elotuzumab (anti-SLAMF7 humanized IgG1) in Japanese and non-Japanese patients with multiple myeloma (Ide 2020); parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment plus second-order target-mediated elimination from the peripheral compartment driven by a non-renewable target pool, with time-varying serum M protein on Vmax.
Emfilermin (Goggin 2004) One-compartment population PK model for subcutaneous emfilermin (recombinant human leukaemia inhibitory factor, r-hLIF) in healthy postmenopausal women and in infertile women undergoing in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) (Goggin 2004). Absorption is zero-order (D1 = 0.84 h, invariant, no IIV) directly into the central compartment, followed by first-order elimination. Apparent clearance CL/F is decreased by 35% in IVF-ET patients (typical 37 L/h) relative to healthy postmenopausal women (typical 57 L/h). Apparent volume V/F is linear in body weight on the natural scale: V/F = 235 L at the median 62 kg, increasing or decreasing by 6.7 L/kg (~29% per 10 kg) – an absolute-linear covariate form, not log-multiplicative. Inter-individual variability is log-normal on CL/F (17% CV) and V/F (28% CV); inter-occasion variability is log-normal on V/F (23% CV) across three protocol-defined occasions (first dosing day = 1, intermediate dosing days = 2, last dosing day = 3). Residual error is proportional (20% CV). Studied weight range was 48-83 kg; the linear V/F-WT term is extrapolation-unsafe below ~27 kg where the typical V/F would become negative.
Emicizumab (Yoneyama 2017) One-compartment population PK model with first-order subcutaneous absorption and elimination for emicizumab (ACE910), a bispecific anti-FIXa/FX humanized monoclonal antibody mimicking the cofactor function of activated factor VIII, in healthy male adult volunteers (Japanese and Caucasian) and Japanese male adult/adolescent patients with severe hemophilia A with or without factor VIII inhibitors (Yoneyama 2017). Body-weight allometric exponents are fixed (0.75 on CL/F, 1 on Vd/F) per Yoneyama 2017 Methods. Anti-emicizumab neutralizing antibody (ADA_POS) increases CL/F by a factor of exp(2.01) and the effect onsets 33.4 days post the first SC dose (NONMEM MTIME parameterisation). The companion repeated time-to-event (RTTE) bleeding-hazard model from Yoneyama 2017 Section 2.4 is not included here; nlmixr2lib does not currently support TTE models.
Emtricitabine (Valade 2015) Two-compartment oral population PK model for emtricitabine (FTC) in HIV-1-infected men on combined antiretroviral therapy, with an asymmetric effect compartment of negligible volume describing seminal plasma distribution via distinct blood-plasma-to-seminal-plasma transfer rate (k1e) and seminal-plasma elimination rate (ke1) constants (Valade 2015, EVARIST ANRS-EP 49 study)
Enoxaparin (Berges 2007) Two-compartment first-order absorption population PK model of anti-factor Xa activity in elderly patients (>75 years) receiving prophylactic subcutaneous enoxaparin 4000 IU once daily (Berges 2007 PROPHRE.75 study)
Enoxaparin (Feng 2006) Two-compartment population PK model for enoxaparin in adult inpatients receiving continuous intravenous infusion (CII) or subcutaneous (SC) dosing (Feng 2006)
Enoxaparin (Green 2003) Two-compartment first-order-input population PK model for subcutaneous enoxaparin in adults treated at the Royal Brisbane Hospital for acute coronary syndrome, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or DVT prophylaxis (Green & Duffull 2003). Anti-Xa activity is the observation; lean body weight (LBW; James 1976 formula) is the size descriptor on clearance and total body weight is the size descriptor on the central volume.
Enoxaparin (Green 2005) Two-compartment, first-order absorption population PK model for subcutaneously administered enoxaparin (anti-Xa activity) in 38 adults with acute coronary syndromes and a wide range of renal function (Green 2005). Total clearance is the sum of a renal arm scaled linearly to estimated creatinine clearance (CRCL, Cockcroft-Gault with ideal body weight; reference 80 mL/min) and a covariate-free non-renal arm: CL = 0.681 * (CRCL / 80) + 0.229 L/h. Central volume of distribution scales linearly with total body weight (reference 80 kg): Vc = 5.22 * (WT / 80) L. A constant basal anti-Xa activity (49.9 IU/L) is added to the model prediction to represent endogenous and assay-baseline anti-Xa activity, per the Schoemaker parameterisation referenced in the paper. Inter-individual variability is log-normal on total CL, Vc, Q, and basal anti-Xa activity (paper Table 2 Covariate Model). Residual error is combined additive (52.4 IU/L) plus proportional (20.0 percent CV) on observed anti-Xa concentrations.
Enoxaparin (Oualha 2018) Population PK model for subcutaneous enoxaparin in 22 children during the first post-operative week after paediatric liver transplantation (Oualha 2018). One-compartment open model with first-order absorption (ka fixed at 1/h) and first-order elimination, measured as anti-Xa activity (target 0.2-0.4 IU/mL). Apparent clearance CL/F is allometrically scaled by pre-operative bodyweight BWPREOP (fixed exponent 0.75); apparent central volume V/F is allometrically scaled (fixed exponent 1) by a time-varying post-operative bodyweight BW(t) that captures peri-operative fluid resuscitation followed by post-operative diuresis: BW(t) = (BWPREOP + PFA/1000) * (1 - (1 - fbw) * t^hill_bw / (tbw50^hill_bw + t^hill_bw)). Bodyweight-evolution parameters fbw / hill_bw / tbw50 are jointly estimated with the enoxaparin PK and carry their own between-subject variability.
Enoxaparin (SanchezPena 2005) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model of anti-factor Xa activity after intravenous enoxaparin in 546 adults undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention (Sanchez-Pena 2005). The IV bolus is modelled as a brief zero-order input phase of duration T0 with linear elimination. Body weight is the only retained covariate, applied as estimated allometric exponents on clearance (0.9) and volume (0.7) with reference 75 kg. A fixed basal anti-Xa activity (0.0725 IU/mL) is added to the dose-driven concentration to account for the endogenous pre-dose background measured by the chromogenic anti-Xa assay. Doses must be entered in IU (1 mg enoxaparin = 100 IU anti-Xa); the typical 0.5 mg/kg clinical dose corresponds to 3830 IU for a 76 kg patient.
Ephedrine caffeine (Csajka 2005) Mechanistic simultaneous population PK model for co-administered ephedrine, its N-demethylation metabolite norephedrine, and caffeine in healthy adults after single oral doses (Csajka 2005). Caffeine is described by a 1-compartment first-order-absorption model with a fractional decrease in apparent clearance during oral contraceptive therapy. Ephedrine uses a 1-compartment depot + central + cumulative-urine model with an absorption lag time, renal clearance, and saturable Michaelis-Menten conversion to norephedrine; norephedrine is carried as a pseudo-concentration state because its volume of distribution V_NE is unidentifiable, so the reported parameter is the compound Vmax/V_NE and the norephedrine elimination is first order. The interaction term reproduces the paper’s indirect-action absorption model (equation 10b/10e final form): the caffeine amount in the absorption compartment depresses ephedrine ka by an asymptotic fraction d, with caffeine acting as the f(C) inhibitor on its own absorption-compartment amount. Parameter values are the pharmaceutical-formulation defaults from Table 3; herbal-formulation alternatives (bioavailability F_E,herbal = 0.78 instead of F_E,pharm = 0.59, plus a 22.2-min caffeine absorption lag) are documented in inline comments and can be applied by overriding lfdepot and ltlag_caf at simulation time.
Epinastine (Sarashina 2005) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for oral epinastine in healthy adults and paediatric atopic dermatitis patients (Sarashina 2005), with linear-in-WT CL/F and V1/F plus food-status and formulation covariate effects
Epinephrine (Abboud 2009) One-compartment population PK model for intravenous epinephrine (adrenaline) infusion in adults with septic shock, with a constant endogenous epinephrine production rate (R0) feeding the central compartment and body weight and SAPS II severity score as power covariates on clearance (Abboud 2009).
Epinephrine (Oualha 2014) Population PK/PD model for continuous IV epinephrine in critically ill children following cardiopulmonary bypass for repair of congenital heart defects (Oualha 2014). One-compartment open PK with first-order elimination plus an endogenous zero-order production rate q0 and circulating-volume-anchored Vc = 0.08WT; allometric scaling of CL and q0 on body weight (exponents fixed to 3/4). Hemodynamic Emax sub-models for heart rate (HR) and the stroke-volume systemic-vascular-resistance product (SVSVR) with age power effects on basal HR and SVSVR and a RACHS-1 categorical effect on SV*SVR_max. Glucose/lactate turnover sub-model: epinephrine stimulates the zero-order plasma glucose production rate via an Emax function; plasma lactate is produced at the rate of glucose elimination and itself follows first-order elimination. kGLY and kLAC are derived at steady state (Eq. 12-13).
Eplontersen (Diep 2022) Two-compartment population PK and indirect-response PD model for the GalNAc3-conjugated antisense oligonucleotide eplontersen targeting transthyretin (TTR) mRNA, fit to pooled data from two phase 1 studies in healthy volunteers (Diep 2022). First-order SC absorption with site-specific typical ka (arm vs abdomen), allometric scaling on CL by lean body mass, on Vc/Q/Vp by total body weight, and an indirect-response model with eplontersen-driven inhibition of TTR production.
EpoetinBeta (Hayashi 1998) One-compartment population PK model for subcutaneous recombinant human erythropoietin (epoetin beta) in healthy adult male Japanese volunteers with a constant endogenous EPO production rate carrying a fixed circadian sinusoid (acrophase near midnight) feeding the central compartment, and body weight as a power covariate on apparent absorption rate ka and apparent central volume V/F, plus serum creatinine and age as power covariates on the elimination rate constant k_e (reparameterised here onto canonical CL/F so the k_e covariates ride on CL/F together with the V/F weight exponent); apparent V/F and E/F throughout because bioavailability was not separately estimable from this SC-only study (Hayashi 1998).
Eribulin (Kawamura 2018) Three-compartment IV PK driver coupled with a Friberg-style semi-mechanistic PD model for eribulin-induced neutropenia in Japanese patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer (Kawamura 2018). Plasma eribulin concentrations are produced by a 3-compartment model with linear elimination from the central compartment whose parameters are FIXED from the Majid 2014 popPK analysis (reproduced verbatim in Kawamura 2018 section 2.3): CL depends on body weight (allometric 0.75), serum albumin, alkaline phosphatase, and total bilirubin; V1, V2, V3 scale linearly with body weight; Q2 and Q3 scale allometrically with body weight. The PD layer (proliferation + three transit compartments + circulating neutrophils + feedback) is estimated on 401 patients / 5199 ANC measurements (Table 2): MTT = 104.5 h, Kprol = 0.0377 /h, Kout = 0.0295 /h, Gamma = 0.203, Slope = 0.0413 mL/ng (linear drug effect). Serum albumin influences Kprol (negative exponent), MTT (positive exponent), and Kout (positive exponent); a binary low-baseline-ANC indicator (BNEU3 = 1 when baseline ANC < 3000/uL) multiplies Kprol. IIV is reported on Kprol, Kout, and Slope (no IIV on MTT or Gamma). Additive residual error on circulating ANC (sigma = 1.15 cells/nL = 1150 cells/uL). Eribulin doses must be supplied in milligrams of eribulin-FREE-BASE equivalent (1.4 mg/m^2 mesilate = 1.23 mg/m^2 free base, conversion factor 1.23/1.4).
Eribulin (vanHasselt 2015) Disease-progression (DP) model for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) dynamics in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients treated with eribulin mesilate (van Hasselt 2015). K-PD framework: the per-dose predicted eribulin AUC enters a single transient drug-effect compartment depot_kpd that decays with rate KP (fixed to 6000 /day so the effect is nearly instantaneous after each dose); PSA evolves under a first-order growth rate KG counteracted by an inhibition rate KD0 multiplied by the K-PD state depot_kpd and an exponentially decaying resistance factor exp(-k_res*t). PSA0, KD0, KG, k_res have correlated lognormal IIV; proportional residual error on PSA (log-transform-both-sides). Prior taxane treatment (binary PRIOR_TAXANE) multiplies PSA0; cumulative number of days of prior taxane treatment (continuous PRIOR_TAXANE_DAYS) enters KD0 as (1 + NTRT/720)^theta. The companion parametric Weibull survival sub-model fit in R survreg is documented in the vignette but not encoded here (not an ODE / nlmixr2 structure).
Ertapenem (Lakota 2018) Three-compartment population PK model for ertapenem in adults across a wide range of body sizes (Lakota 2018)
Erythromycin (Nielsen 2011) In vitro (Streptococcus pyogenes M12 NCTC P1800). Semimechanistic PKPD model of erythromycin time-kill kinetics; two-stage bacterial life-cycle (proliferating drug-sensitive S and non-growing drug-insensitive R) with sigmoidal Emax killing of S via an effect compartment; first-order drug elimination (ke set per in vitro kinetic-system flow rate); drug-specific degradation kdeg fixed at zero. Parameter values are from the combined static and dynamic estimation in Table 3.
Etanercept (Fang 2010) One-compartment population PK model for rhTNFR-Fc (recombinant human TNF receptor-Fc fusion protein; etanercept-class molecule from Celgen Bio-Pharmaceutical) with first-order subcutaneous absorption, absorption lag time, and linear elimination in healthy Chinese volunteers (single SC doses 12.5-50 mg) and Chinese male patients with ankylosing spondylitis (multiple SC doses 25 mg BIW or 50 mg QW) (Fang 2010). Female sex is the typical-value reference: males have 0.655x lower CL/F. Single-dose administration is the typical-value reference: multi-dose administration in AS patients has 0.674x lower apparent bioavailability F.
Ethambutol (Horita 2018) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with zero-order absorption (lag time + zero-order duration) and first-order elimination for oral ethambutol in Ghanaian children with active tuberculosis (Horita 2018); allometric weight scaling on CL/F, Q/F, V1/F, V2/F with non-canonical estimated exponents (0.382, 0.474, 0.228, 0.858) normalised to the cohort median 14.3 kg.
Ethanol (Nemoto 2017) Bayesian population PK model for orally ingested ethanol (alcohol) in 34 healthy Japanese adults (Nemoto 2017). One-compartment model with first-order absorption and Michaelis-Menten elimination; covariates: sex, age, body weight, ALDH2 and ADH1B genotypes. Final model fit by a fully conditional MCMC Bayesian analysis with informative priors derived from Seng et al. 2014 (Chinese + Indian cohort).
Ethaselen (Ye 2017) Preclinical (mouse, BALB/c nude with A549 NSCLC xenograft). Integrated dose-biomarker-response PD model for the thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) inhibitor ethaselen (Ye et al. 2017). The TrxR biomarker is described by an indirect-response (IDR) turnover in which the zero-order production Kin is linearly amplified by the instantaneous natural tumor growth rate (linear correction factor gamma1) and the first-order degradation Kout is increased by a sigmoidal Emax function of the current administered ethaselen dose (Smax, SC50, Hill = gamma2). Tumor volume follows a smooth exponential-to-linear growth law (paper Eq 5: dX/dt = 2lambda0lambda1X / (lambda1 + 2lambda0*X)) tempered by a zero-order Emax killing rate driven by the TrxR-inhibition ratio P = 1 - TrxR_treatment / TrxR_control (paper Eq 7). The control TrxR trajectory is carried internally as a shadow state (trxr_ctrl) so P is defined per-subject without requiring an external control-arm simulation. No pharmacokinetic compartment is included; the paper acknowledges ethaselen plasma concentrations were not measured. The current daily dose enters the model through the time-varying covariate DOSE (mg/kg/day), which the published study toggles between 0 (vehicle / off-treatment) and one of {36, 72, 108} mg/kg/day for days 0-9 (oral gavage QD x10 d).
Etrolizumab (Moein 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for etrolizumab with first-order SC absorption and time-decreasing clearance in adults with moderately-to-severely active ulcerative colitis (Moein 2022)
Everolimus (deWit 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption for everolimus 10 mg once-daily in 40 adult patients with advanced thyroid carcinoma (de Wit 2016). Bioavailability F is structurally fixed at 1 (absolute F unknown), so reported CL, V1, Q, and V2 are apparent (oral / F). Allometric scaling on apparent clearance (exponent 0.75) and apparent central volume (exponent 1.0) using a 70 kg reference weight per the Anderson and Holford theory cited by the paper. Apparent peripheral volume V2/F was held fixed at 400 L in the final model. Bioavailability is multiplied by 0.792 in subjects who carry at least one ABCB1 TTT haplotype (CYP3A / P-gp efflux marker). Inter-occasion variability on F captures the day-1-vs-day-15 sampling occasion contrast (CV 19.2%).
Everolimus (TerHeine 2018) Semi-mechanistic two-compartment population PK model for everolimus in pooled adult oncology (metastatic thyroid or breast cancer) and renal transplant patients (ter Heine 2018). Oral absorption is modelled with a chain of four transit compartments parameterised by the mean absorption time MAT and the Savic 2007 convention ktr = (n + 1) / MAT (n = 4 transit compartments). Hepatic disposition uses a well-stirred liver model: hepatic plasma flow QHP = QH * (1 - HCT); hepatic extraction EH = fu * CLint / (QHP + fu * CLint) with FIXED unbound fraction fu = 0.27; oral bioavailability F = 1 - EH and systemic plasma clearance CLH = QHP * EH. Volume parameters (VC, VP) and flow parameters (QH = 90 L/h FIXED, Q) are allometrically scaled to fat-free mass FFM at a 57.2 kg reference (equivalent to a 70 kg, 1.80 m adult male) with theory-based exponents 0.75 on flows and 1.0 on volumes (Anderson and Holford). Concomitant high-dose oral prednisolone (PRED_DOSE >= 20 mg/day, a CYP3A4 inducer) increases apparent CLint by 31%. Modelled plasma concentrations were derived externally from observed whole-blood concentrations and HCT via a Langmuir-plus-linear erythrocyte binding model (Bmax = 0.964 mg/L, Kd = 0.0920 mg/L, Kns = 0.153); the vignette uses the same back-calculation to compare simulated plasma concentrations against the paper’s whole-blood trough targets.
Evinacumab (Pu 2021) Population PK/PD model for evinacumab in healthy volunteers and adults / pediatric patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (Pu 2021): two-compartment PK with first-order SC absorption (with lag time) and parallel linear plus Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment, linked to a Type 1 indirect-response model for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) where evinacumab inhibits LDL-C production.
Evolocumab (Kuchimanchi 2018) One-compartment population PK model for evolocumab with first-order SC absorption and parallel linear plus Michaelis-Menten (target-mediated) elimination from the central compartment, in healthy adults and patients with hypercholesterolemia (Kuchimanchi 2018)
Exemestane (Valle 2005) Three-compartment population PK with first-order absorption + lag time, coupled to an indirect-response PD model on plasma estrone sulphate (E1S), for oral exemestane (25 mg single dose) in healthy postmenopausal women. Crossover study comparing a sugar-coated tablet (SCT) under fasting versus an extemporaneous tablet-suspended-in-water suspension under fasting versus a SCT taken after a standard high-fat breakfast. Disposition is independent of formulation and food; absorption rate ka and apparent bioavailability F depend on formulation (suspension: ka 7.6 vs SCT 2.35 1/h, F 1.2x) and on the high-fat meal (ka 1.13 1/h, F 1.6x). Exemestane inhibits E1S synthesis via a sigmoid Imax function with IC50 22.1 pg/mL and Hill coefficient 1.73.
Exenatide (Cirincione 2017) Population PK model for exenatide immediate-release (Cirincione 2017): two-compartment, parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination, sequential zero-order then saturable first-order absorption after SC dosing.
Exenatide er (Cirincione 2017) Population PK model for extended-release (ER) microsphere SC exenatide in patients with type 2 diabetes (Cirincione 2017 AAPS J): two-compartment disposition with three parallel SC-absorption processes (initial first-order release plus two Savic 2007 analytical transit-compartment chains for the second- and third-phase microsphere release) and parallel linear plus saturable Michaelis-Menten elimination. Disposition parameters (CL, Q, Vc, Vp, Vmax, Km) and the eGFR-on-CL and WT-on-Vc covariate effects are fixed from the IR companion model (Cirincione 2017 BJCP).
Exendin939 (Ng 2018) Two-compartment intravenous-infusion population PK model for exendin-(9-39) in patients with congenital hyperinsulinism (Ng 2018). Pooled paediatric (neonates and children) and adult cohort with allometric scaling fixed at 0.75 on CL and Q and 1.0 on Vc and Vp (reference WT 70 kg); inter-individual variability retained only on CL. Residual variability follows the NONMEM Poisson error model (Var(Y|F) = F * sigma^2), encoded as a power-error with fixed exponent 0.5.
Factorix (Koopman 2023) Two-compartment population PK model for recombinant factor IX-Fc fusion concentrate (rFIX-Fc, eftrenonacog alfa) in haemophilia B patients aged 2-71 years (Koopman 2023)
Factorviii (Nestorov 2014) Two-compartment population PK model for recombinant factor VIII Fc fusion protein (rFVIIIFc, efmoroctocog alfa) in previously treated patients with severe hemophilia A (Nestorov 2014; final covariate model with VWF on CL and WT and HCT on V1)
Factorviii fanhdi (Chelle 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for Fanhdi/Alphanate (plasma-derived factor VIII concentrate, Grifols) in hemophilia A patients pooled from 12 hemophilia centers in the WAPPS-Hemo platform (Chelle 2019). Final model has fat-free mass (FFM) as a power-form covariate on CL, V1, and V2, and a piecewise-linear age effect on CL above the median age of 25 years; between-subject variability is a BLOCK(2) on CL and V1 with correlation 0.797; residual error is proportional only.
Farletuzumab (Farrell 2012) Two-compartment population PK model for farletuzumab (humanized IgG1 anti-folate-receptor-alpha monoclonal antibody) with first-order linear elimination after IV infusion in women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (Farrell 2012).
Febuxostat lesinurad (HillMcManus 2017) Semi-mechanistic dual-drug PKPD model for the impact of non-adherence to febuxostat (xanthine oxidase inhibitor) plus lesinurad (URAT1 uricosuric) urate-lowering therapy in gout; combines published 2-compartment first-order absorption PK for each drug with a 4-compartment xanthine / uric-acid PD system (Hill-McManus 2017)
Fenofibrate (Back 2018) Mechanism-based oral absorption / disposition model for fenofibrate (parent) and fenofibric acid (active form, measured analyte) in healthy Korean adults under fasted, standard-meal, and high-fat-meal conditions. Three drug compartments (stomach -> duodenum -> central) coupled to a 2-compartment calorie sub-model (stomach -> duodenum) via a bile-acid-driven coupling: the combined fenofibrate-metabolism / fenofibric-acid-absorption rate constant km&a is multiplied by (1 + Ebile * calories_in_duodenum), and a time-varying gastric emptying rate constant kg is multiplied by (1 + Efood) for the first 6.94 h after a meal. Meal-type-specific shifts on Vc/F encode the additional bioavailability change between fasted, standard, and high-fat meals.
Fentanyl (Bista 2015) One-compartment population PK model for transdermal fentanyl (Durogesic patch) in adult cancer patients with first-order absorption from the patch and allometric body-weight scaling on CL/F and V/F (Bista 2015)
Fentanyl (Oosten 2016) One-compartment population PK model for fentanyl administered by continuous subcutaneous infusion and transdermal matrix patch in adult cancer patients, with separate first-order absorption for each route, transdermal lag time, allometric body-weight scaling on CL/F and V/F (V/F fixed at 280 L), IIV on Ka (sc and td), F (td), and CL/F, IOV on transdermal Ka multiplexed by occasion, and proportional residual error (Oosten 2016).
Fentanyl iv (Mann 2022) Three-compartment IV fentanyl population PK with a first-order biophase (effect-site) equilibrium compartment, used as the agonist input layer of the Mann 2022 translational opioid-overdose model. Parameter values are the Algera 2021 popPK fit re-tabulated in Mann 2022 Supplement 1 Table S1 (intravenous fentanyl, healthy opioid- naive and chronic opioid-user volunteers pooled, n = 30). Allometric scaling: CL and inter-compartmental clearances on (WT/70)^0.75, volumes on (WT/70). Outputs plasma concentration Cc in ng/mL and effect-site Ce in both ng/mL and pM for downstream consumption by the Mann 2022 mu-opioid receptor binding model. Intended for use as the IV-fentanyl agonist input in a simulated overdose-rescue chain; no residual error is reported in the source supplement.
Ferumoxytol (Plock 2014) Two-compartment population PK model with Michaelis-Menten elimination for IV ferumoxytol in healthy adults and adults with chronic kidney disease (Plock 2014). Encodes the typical non-dialysing-patient form; the haemodialysis-driven time-varying central volume (VSLOPE) and the within-session weight-loss effect on V1 (WLO) are described in the vignette but not enabled in this model file.
Fimasartan (Kim 2017) Population PK-PD model for fimasartan (an angiotensin II receptor blocker) in healthy adult Korean men and men with mild or moderate hepatic impairment (Kim 2017). Plasma fimasartan is described by a 2-compartment model with parallel mixed-input absorption: a first-order arm with rate Ka and absorption lag time LAG (fraction F1 = (1 - alpha) * F of the dose) running in parallel with a zero-order arm of virtual duration D2 (fraction F2 = alpha * F of the dose), where the total relative bioavailability F is fixed at 0.18 in healthy subjects (Kim 2008) and incremented to 0.18 + IL1 in mild and 0.18 + IL2 in moderate hepatic impairment to capture the markedly higher Cmax observed in cirrhotic patients via reduced first-pass extraction and intrahepatic shunting. The PD model describes systolic and diastolic blood pressures as indirect-response (turnover) compartments with zero-order synthesis Kin inhibited by fimasartan via a sigmoid-Imax function E(C) = 1 - Emax * Cc / (EC50 + Cc) and first-order loss Kout = Kin / Base; the steady-state baseline rides a fixed cosinor circadian rhythm Bsl(t) = MESOR * (1 + Amp1% * cos(2pi(t - AC1)/24) + Amp2% * cos(2pi(t - AC2)/12)) with amplitudes and phases inherited from Park 2014 (healthy Korean reference). EC50 is stratified by hepatic-impairment severity: for SBP, healthy versus any-impairment pooled (mild + moderate); for DBP, healthy + mild versus moderate alone, reflecting the contrasting impact of hepatic dysfunction on the two pressure outputs.
Finafloxacin (Taubert 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for finafloxacin (a novel fluoroquinolone with enhanced antibacterial activity at acidic pH) with linear elimination, parallel first-order plus zero-order oral absorption (each with its own absorption lag time), an additive renal + non-renal clearance decomposition, and a cumulative-urinary excretion compartment. Built from pooled data of 266 subjects across three trials: 127 healthy volunteers (Trial I oral 25-1,000 mg/day; Trial II IV 200-1,000 mg/day) and 139 patients with complicated urinary tract infections (Trial III IV 800 mg/day, 60-min infusions). Covariates: body surface area on the central volume of distribution (power form, exponent 1.50, reference 1.829 m^2) and healthy / patient cohort status (DIS_HEALTHY) on both the renal and non-renal clearance arms. The paper-reported total apparent clearance (20.9 L/h healthy; -29% in patients) and population-specific fraction renally excreted (FER1 = 0.40 healthy, FER2 = 0.21 patient) are re-parameterised into the canonical lcl_renal + lcl_nonren additive decomposition; the typical values are anchored to DIS_HEALTHY = 0 (patient reference) per the inst/references/covariate-columns.md DIS_HEALTHY convention. The IIV translation between the paper and the re-parameterised forms is documented in the validation vignette Assumptions and deviations (Taubert 2018).
Flucloxacillin (Landersdorfer 2007) Three-compartment population PK model for IV flucloxacillin in healthy adult volunteers (Landersdorfer 2007) with linear renal and non-renal elimination. The structural model splits total clearance into a renal arm (CL_R = 5.37 L/h) and a non-renal arm (CL_NR = 2.73 L/h); their sum reproduces the derived total clearance CL_T = 8.10 L/h reported in Table 2. The renal arm also drives a cumulative urinary excretion compartment that the paper fits jointly with plasma. Distribution uses a shallow peripheral (V_2 = 2.61 L, CLic_shallow = 15.3 L/h) and a deep peripheral (V_3 = 2.17 L, CLic_deep = 1.23 L/h); central volume V_1 = 4.79 L. Between-subject variability is reported as a full 5x5 variance-covariance matrix (Table 3, natural-log scale) on CL_R, CL_NR, V_1, V_2, V_3; no BSV is included on the inter-compartmental clearances. Residual error is combined additive + proportional on both plasma concentrations (9.4% CV, 0.155 mg/L) and cumulative urinary amounts (20.9% CV, 1.04 mg). The 5-min infusion duration used in the study is supplied via dose records (DUR / RATE) rather than as a model parameter. No structural covariates were retained: the cohort was 10 healthy Caucasian adults (5 M / 5 F, weight 52-83 kg, age 23-34 years) and demographics are not used inside the model. Monte Carlo dose-attainment simulations in the paper (continuous, 4-h, 0.5-h infusions) reuse these PK parameters together with 96% protein binding.
Fluconazole (Momper 2016) One-compartment population PK model for fluconazole with first-order oral absorption and IV administration in extremely premature infants with birth weights < 750 g (Momper 2016)
Fluconazole (Wade 2008) One-compartment intravenous population PK model for fluconazole in preterm and term infants (gestational age 23-40 weeks, postnatal age <120 days) with allometric body weight on CL and V (fixed exponents 0.75 and 1.0, reference 1 kg), power effects of gestational age at birth (reference 26 weeks) and postnatal age (reference 2 weeks) on CL, and an on/off power effect of serum creatinine on CL gated when SCR > 1 mg/dL (Wade 2008).
Flurbiprofen (Zhang 2018) One-compartment IV population PK plus Holford-Sheiner effect-compartment for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disposition of flurbiprofen, the active metabolite of flurbiprofen axetil, in Chinese adults with postoperative pain receiving 1 mg/kg IV flurbiprofen axetil (Zhang 2018, Tables 1-2, Eq. 3 covariate form). Final-model typical values CL = 1.55 L/h, Vd = 7.91 L, plasma-CSF equilibration rate Ke = 0.0015/h; linear-multiplicative covariate effects of weight and height on Ke centered on the population medians (68.5 kg, 165 cm).
Fluticasone inhaled (Weber 2015) Semi-mechanistic. Population PK model for inhaled fluticasone propionate (FP) in healthy adult volunteers (Weber 2015), used for Monte-Carlo simulation of PK-based bioequivalence trials. Separate central (LC1 -> LC2) and peripheral (LP1 -> LP2) lung deposition compartments hold undissolved drug particles (LC1, LP1) and dissolved drug (LC2, LP2); mucociliary clearance kmuc removes undissolved particles from central lung regions only; dissolved drug is absorbed into a two-compartment systemic disposition with central-to-peripheral rate constants k12 and k21. Each administration splits across LC1 (bioavailability flung * fc) and LP1 (bioavailability flung * (1 - fc)); the remaining (1 - flung) fraction is assumed to have negligible oral bioavailability. F_Lung and F_C are logit-transformed; all other parameters are log-transformed. Structural parameters and BSV were taken from the validated FP inhalation model of Weber and Hochhaus 2013 (reference 13 of Weber 2015); BOV on F_Lung, F_C, and kmuc described as a paper-specific extension for crossover-trial simulation is NOT encoded in this model file (see vignette Assumptions and deviations).
Follitropin delta (Rose 2016) One-compartment population PK model for FE 999049 (recombinant human FSH; INN follitropin delta) with first-order subcutaneous absorption through a single transit compartment and first-order elimination, in 27 healthy pituitary-suppressed female subjects after a single subcutaneous dose of 37.5-450 IU (2.2-26.3 ug). Body weight enters as an allometric covariate on apparent clearance (exponent 0.75) and apparent volume of distribution (exponent 1) with reference weight 65 kg.
Fondaparinux (Zufferey 2018) Parametric time-to-event model for major bleeding after major orthopaedic surgery under fondaparinux thromboprophylaxis (POP-A-RIX 2.5 mg once daily and PROPICE 1.5 mg once daily pooled cohorts; n = 1393, 64 adjudicated bleeding events). The hazard is hz(t) = h0(t) * exp(beta1SEX + beta2AUCinf/8.5 + beta3LBM/44), with gamma-shaped baseline h0(t) = theta1theta2(t-theta3)exp(-theta2(t-theta3)) for t > theta3 and 0 otherwise (lag time theta3 ~= 17.6 h, peak ~4 days post-surgery). AUCinf is derived inside the model from daily dose and clearance using the paper’s PK equation CL = 0.34 (CRCL/60)^0.485 * exp(eta) (lean-body-weight Cockcroft-Gault CrCl).
Fosdagrocorat (Weatherley 2018) Simultaneous parent-metabolite population PK model for oral fosdagrocorat (PF-04171327, a phosphate-ester prodrug of the dissociated glucocorticoid receptor agonist PF-00251802) in adult rheumatoid-arthritis patients receiving stable background methotrexate (Weatherley 2018). The prodrug is fully cleaved by alkaline phosphatase in the gut wall before absorption; only the active Metabolite-1 (PF-00251802) and its circulating N-oxide Metabolite-2 (PF-04015475) are modelled. Metabolite-1 is described by a two-compartment disposition (apparent CL, V2, Q, V4 fixed at 209 L) with first-order absorption (K12) and bioavailability F1 fixed at 1 (apparent F absorbed via the prodrug-to-Metabolite-1 conversion). Metabolite-2 is described by a one-compartment disposition (apparent Vm, CLm) with Fm fixed at 1 (assumed 100 percent molar conversion of Metabolite-1 to Metabolite-2). Standard allometric weight scaling is fixed on Metabolite-1 disposition (exponent 0.75 on CL and Q; exponent 1.00 on V2 and V4); body-weight scaling on Metabolite-2 CLm is estimated as a power-form covariate (exponent 0.450) and no weight effect is applied to Vm (rejected in stepwise covariate testing). Retained covariates on Metabolite-1 CL are female-vs-male (-26.8 percent) and a small linear age effect (-0.00633 L/h per year above 40). Retained covariates on Metabolite-2 CLm are female-vs-male (-34.1 percent) and body weight. Inter-individual variability is reported on Metabolite-1 CL (33 percent CV) and absorption rate K12 (249 percent CV), and on Metabolite-2 Vm (44 percent CV) and CLm (26 percent CV). The publication’s interoccasion variability on Metabolite-1 F1 (23.8 percent CV across dosing occasions) is encoded here as IIV on F1 because nlmixr2lib simulation does not carry an occasion column; this approximation is documented in the vignette Assumptions section. Residual error is combined additive plus proportional on the linear-concentration scale separately for each analyte (Metabolite-1 proportional 19.9 percent + additive 0.305 ng/mL; Metabolite-2 proportional 7.8 percent + additive 0.10 ng/mL).
Fosdagrocorat oc (Shoji 2017) Kinetic-pharmacodynamic (K-PD) model for serum osteocalcin (OC) bone-formation biomarker following once-daily oral fosdagrocorat (PF-04171327, a dissociated agonist of the glucocorticoid receptor) or oral prednisone comparator in adults with rheumatoid arthritis on background methotrexate (Shoji 2017). Sister model to Shoji_2017_fosdagrocorat_p1np: identical K-PD structure (virtual K-PD depot with zero-order Input mg/week and first-order KDE; sigmoid Emax inhibition of biomarker synthesis with Hill coefficient fixed to 1; empirical dose-and-time-dependent rebound multiplier; additive placebo-period slope). For the OC fit Shoji 2017 fixed KDE to the P1NP-derived estimates and fixed Imax to 1 for both drugs, and used independent (not block) IIV on KDE, EDK50, and BL.
Fosdagrocorat p1np (Shoji 2017) Kinetic-pharmacodynamic (K-PD) model for serum amino-terminal propeptide of type I collagen (P1NP) bone-formation biomarker following once-daily oral fosdagrocorat (PF-04171327, a dissociated agonist of the glucocorticoid receptor) or oral prednisone comparator in adults with rheumatoid arthritis on background methotrexate (Shoji 2017). A virtual K-PD depot for the drug (zero-order Input mg/week, first-order elimination KDE) feeds a sigmoid Emax inhibition of biomarker synthesis (Hill coefficient fixed to 1); the synthesis rate carries an empirical dose-and-time-dependent rebound multiplier and an additive linear placebo-period slope captures the methotrexate-only time trend.
Fremanezumab (Fiedler-Kelly 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for fremanezumab (anti-CGRP IgG2 delta-a/kappa mAb) with first-order SC absorption, absorption lag time, and route-specific central volume / residual error supporting both IV and SC administration in healthy adults and adults with chronic or episodic migraine (Fiedler-Kelly 2019).
Fremanezumab cm (FiedlerKelly 2020) Population PD exposure-response model relating fremanezumab average plasma concentration (Cav) to monthly moderate-to-severe headache days in adults with chronic migraine. Placebo time-course is a Hill (sigmoid) function in months and the drug effect is a power function of Cav centered on the population median Cav. Fitted to 5312 monthly observations from 1361 chronic-migraine patients pooled across the LBR-101-021 phase 2b and TV48125-CNS-30049 phase 3 studies (Fiedler-Kelly 2020).
Fremanezumab em (FiedlerKelly 2020) Population PD exposure-response model relating fremanezumab average plasma concentration (Cav) to monthly migraine days in adults with episodic migraine. Placebo time-course is an exponential growth in months (predicted reduction = exp(exponent * t)) and the drug effect is an Emax/EC50 of Cav scaled by individual baseline migraine days. Fitted to 4444 monthly observations from 1142 episodic-migraine patients pooled across the LBR-101-022 phase 2b and TV48125-CNS-30050 phase 3 studies (Fiedler-Kelly 2020).
FXa inhibitors mbma (Yoshioka 2018) MBMA. PT-ratio-driven logistic event-rate model for direct oral factor Xa inhibitors (rivaroxaban, apixaban, edoxaban) in non-valvular atrial fibrillation. Inputs a population-mean prothrombin-time ratio (PTR) supplied per observation time; outputs per-arm probability of ischemic stroke/SE (p_isse) and of major bleeding (p_mb), plus a derived per-arm mortality probability. Fit by NONMEM 7.3 to per-arm event counts from 5 large RCTs (Yoshioka 2018; 57,655 patients). Suitable for simulating per-arm summary outcomes only; the upstream popPK -> PT-ratio layer for each FXa inhibitor is out of scope and PTR must be supplied externally.
Galcanezumab (Kielbasa 2020) One-compartment population PK model for galcanezumab (humanized IgG anti-CGRP mAb) with first-order SC absorption, linear elimination, and allometric body weight scaling on CL/F (Kielbasa 2020)
Ganciclovir (Caldes 2009) Two-compartment population PK model for ganciclovir after IV ganciclovir and oral valganciclovir administration in solid organ transplant patients infected with cytomegalovirus, with first-order absorption, lag time, logit-transformed bioavailability, and creatinine-clearance scaling on CL (Caldes 2009)
Ganciclovir (Chen 2021) Two-compartment population PK model for oral ganciclovir (the active metabolite of valganciclovir) in adult Chinese renal allograft recipients (Chen 2021), with first-order absorption after a lag time and a linear creatinine-clearance effect on apparent oral clearance (CL/F).
Ganciclovir (Koloskoff 2025) Indirect-response viral turnover PD model for cytomegalovirus (CMV) viral load decline in pediatric solid-organ and hematopoietic-stem-cell transplant recipients receiving (val)ganciclovir (Koloskoff 2025). The model treats the q12h-interval ganciclovir AUC (AUC_0-12) as a time-varying covariate input AUC_GCV that stimulates first-order viral degradation through an Emax-EC50 relationship. The upstream popPK that produces AUC_0-12 (Franck 2021 Bayesian estimator) is NOT included here; AUC_GCV must be supplied per record by the user, either from the Franck 2021 model or any other AUC source.
Gantenerumab (Grimm 2023) Gantenerumab PK model in cynomolgus monkeys (Grimm 2023): two-compartment plasma PK with brain extracellular distribution across six brain regions (brain_cerebellum, brain_hippocampus, brain_striatum, brain_cortex, choroid plexus, CSF).
Gatifloxacin (Smythe 2013) One-compartment population PK model for oral gatifloxacin in adult African pulmonary tuberculosis patients co-administered rifampin, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide (Smythe 2013). Savic transit-compartment absorption (analytical form, N = 12.6, MTT = 0.65 h) feeds first-order absorption into a one-compartment disposition model. Apparent oral clearance is split into a GFR-mediated component scaled linearly with Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance and a non-GFR (other) component scaled allometrically with fat-free mass (FFM, Janmahasatian formula); apparent volume is scaled linearly with FFM. Age, sex, and HIV status modify the absorption rate constant. Relative bioavailability is fixed at 1 on the first dose and 11.7% lower at steady state.
Gentamicin (Bijleveld 2017) Two-compartment population PK model of intravenous gentamicin in (pre)term neonates with suspected or proven Gram-negative sepsis (Bijleveld 2017), with fixed allometric body-weight scaling (exponents 0.75 on CL and Q, 1 on Vc and Vp) and an estimated postmenstrual-age power effect on CL.
Gentamicin (Hodiamont 2017) Two-compartment population PK model of intravenous gentamicin in critically ill adult ICU patients (Hodiamont 2017) estimated without retained covariates, with correlated between-subject variability on CL and central volume V1, combined additive plus proportional residual error, and substantial inter-occasion variability on CL and V1 reported in the source (documented in the vignette assumptions, not encoded structurally).
Gentamicin (Llanos 2017) Two-compartment population PK model of gentamicin in pediatric oncology patients with febrile neutropenia (Llanos-Paez 2017)
Gentamicin (Llanos-Paez 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for gentamicin in pediatric oncology patients (Llanos-Paez 2017 AAC) extended with a renal-cortex accumulation compartment and an Emax model of relative renal-function reduction (Llanos-Paez 2017 AAPS J).
Gentamicin (Llanos-Paez 2020) Two-compartment IV population PK model for gentamicin in pediatric oncology and nononcology patients (Llanos-Paez 2020); body composition is described by normal fat mass (NFM = FFM + Ffat * (TBW - FFM)) with separate Ffat estimates for CL (0.48) and V1 (0.10) and Ffat fixed to 0 for Q and V2; CL is driven by Holford 2017 GFR-maturation (PMA-based Hill function) and a power ratio of age/sex-matched physiological mean serum creatinine (Ceriotti 2008) over individual SCR; oncology cohort has 15.4% lower V1 and 32.1% lower Q than nononcology.
Gentamicin (MedellinGaribay 2015) Two-compartment IV population PK model for gentamicin in infants 1-24 months (Medellin-Garibay 2015) with linear body-weight scaling on CL and central volume Vc and an additive (CLCR/75)-driven term on CL; intercompartmental clearance Q and peripheral volume Vp are not weight-scaled in the published parameterisation.
Gentamicin (Mohamed 2012) In vitro (Escherichia coli ATCC 25922). Semi-mechanistic PKPD model of gentamicin bactericidal activity with adaptive resistance: drug-susceptible growing bacteria (bact_growing) plus insusceptible resting bacteria (bact_resting), with a binding model (ar_off / ar_on) by which gentamicin reduces its own Emax. Fit jointly to static and dynamic in-vitro time-kill curves.
Gentamicin (Thomson 2003) One-compartment population PK model of intramuscular gentamicin in African infants with suspected severe sepsis (Thomson 2003). The 8 mg/kg i.m. dose is modelled as an IV bolus into the central compartment because first-order absorption could not be characterised from the sparse 1 h / next-morning sampling (the paper documents that ka estimates were poorly identified and absorption appeared complete by 1 h). Apparent clearance scales linearly with body weight and as a power function of (postnatal age + 1 day) normalised to the cohort median + 1 day; apparent volume of distribution scales linearly with body weight relative to the cohort median 3 kg. Reported CL and V are apparent values (CL/F, V/F) because all doses were administered by intramuscular injection and bioavailability could not be estimated.
Gevokizumab (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for gevokizumab in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Givosiran (Ayyar 2024) Mechanistic translational PK model for the GalNAc-siRNA givosiran (Ayyar & Song 2024) parameterized for human (70 kg adult). 22-ODE system covering SC depot, central plasma (parent + AS(N-1)3’ active metabolite), competitive ASGPR receptor binding (free target, parent-target complex, metabolite-target complex), receptor-mediated hepatocyte internalization, endolysosomal sequestration / degradation / endosomal escape, free cytoplasmic siRNA, RISC-loaded siRNA (combined parent + metabolite), kidney vascular and tissue distribution with a deep bound pool and GFR elimination - for parent and metabolite. Pharmacodynamic ALAS1 mRNA silencing (rat-only in the paper) is not included in the human parameterization.
Glibenclamide (Rambiritch 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption for glibenclamide in poorly controlled South African adults with type 2 diabetes (Rambiritch 2016). All disposition parameters are apparent (CL/F, Vc/F, Vp/F, Q/F); F is not estimated. Concentration data were log-transformed prior to NONMEM fitting (LTBS), giving an effectively proportional residual error in linear space. No covariate effects were retained in the final model.
Glucarpidase (Kimura 2023) Modified Michaelis-Menten PK/PD simulation model for glucarpidase (CPG2) rescue after high-dose methotrexate (Kimura 2023). MTX disposition is 2-compartment IV with renal-only first-order elimination (Kr fixed at ~10% of literature total MTX CL from Fukahara 2008); the remaining elimination is captured by a saturable hydrolysis term coupled to a 1-compartment IV CPG2 disposition. All structural parameters are literature-sourced point values (no estimation in the source paper).
GNbAC1 (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for GNbAC1 in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Guselkumab (Chen 2022) One-compartment population PK model with first-order SC absorption for guselkumab (anti-IL-23 human IgG1 lambda mAb) in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (DISCOVER-1 and DISCOVER-2 phase 3 trials; Chen 2022)
Guselkumab (Yao 2018) One-compartment population PK model with first-order SC absorption and first-order elimination for guselkumab (anti-IL-23 p19 human IgG1-lambda mAb) in adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis (pooled phase 2 X-PLORE and phase 3 VOYAGE 1 / VOYAGE 2 trials; Yao 2018)
Haloperidol (Franken 2017) One-compartment population PK model for haloperidol in 28 terminally ill adult palliative-care patients (Franken 2017). Two parallel first-order absorption routes (oral and subcutaneous) with route-specific absorption rate constants fixed from literature (Ka oral = 0.236 1/h, Ka SC = 20 1/h derived from intramuscular Tmax = 20 min). Oral bioavailability F = 0.861 is estimated; SC F is assumed to be 1. IIV is included on F, CL, and Vd; the IIV on F and CL was 99% correlated and is encoded with correlation fixed to unity (BLOCK pattern). Residual variability is additive on log-transformed concentrations (LTBS). Covariate analysis (body weight, age, sex, primary diagnosis, plasma creatinine, urea, bilirubin, GGT, ALP, ALT, AST, CRP, albumin, concomitant CYP2D6 / CYP3A inducers and inhibitors, time-to-death) did not retain any covariate in the final model.
Higenamine (Feng 2012) Population PK/PD model for intravenous higenamine in 10 healthy Chinese subjects (Feng 2012). Two-compartment disposition with Michaelis-Menten (saturable) elimination from the central compartment, plus a direct-effect Emax sub-model for the cardiovascular-stress heart-rate response (E = E0 + Emax * Cc / (EC50 + Cc)). No demographic covariates were retained in the final model (sex, height, weight, BMI, and age were graphically screened but did not influence PK or PD).
HL2351 (Ngo 2020) Population PK model for HL2351 (hIL-1Ra-hyFc, ~97 kDa) in healthy adult Korean men: a quasi-steady-state target-mediated drug disposition (QSS-TMDD) model coupled with FcRn-mediated recycling. The injection-site depot feeds a separate distribution space where free drug equilibrates with FcRn (QSS dissociation constant AKSS1, total FcRn AFcRn_t); free drug moves to the central compartment either directly (Ka2) or by FcRn-mediated recycling of the FcRn-drug complex (Krec). In the central compartment free drug equilibrates with IL1R (QSS dissociation constant KSS2, total IL1R CIL1R_t), is taken up back to the distribution space (Kup), exchanged with one peripheral compartment (Q/F), and eliminated linearly (CL/F). The IL1R-drug complex degrades at Kdeg2. All drug amounts and concentrations are in nmol / nmol/L; convert mg dosing using molecular weight 97 kDa (1 mg HL2351 = approximately 10306 nmol).
HuHMFG1 (Royer 2010) Two-compartment population PK model with linear elimination for HuHMFG1 (AS1402), a humanised anti-MUC1 monoclonal antibody, in patients with metastatic breast cancer; serum AST enters the typical clearance equation additively (Royer 2010)
Hydroxyurea (Paule 2011) Two-compartment population PK + indirect-response PD models for hydroxyurea (HU) in adults with sickle cell anemia (Paule 2011): bicompartmental oral PK with first-order absorption and elimination, allometric scaling on CL/F and Vc/F; turnover models for HbF percentage and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) where HU inhibits the elimination rate of each PD response.
Iclaprim (Lodise 2018) Two-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for iclaprim, a bacterial dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor, in adult patients with complicated skin and skin-structure infections from the pooled ASSIST-1 and ASSIST-2 phase 3 trials (Lodise 2018). Structural typical-value equations are additive-linear (NONMEM theta-sum form rather than power form): central volume V1 carries a body-weight slope; clearance CL carries age + sex (male shift) + sampling-occasion (day 1-2 vs day 4 +/- 1) shifts; peripheral volume V2 has no covariates; inter-compartmental clearance Q carries a severe-cSSSI-infection shift. Block-correlated log-normal IIV on V1, CL, V2 was retained in the source paper but only diagonal CV% values are tabulated – off-diagonal covariances are not reported and are implemented here as diagonal-only (documented in the vignette Assumptions and deviations section). Combined proportional + additive residual error.
Ifosfamide (Kerbusch 2000) One-compartment population PK model for ifosfamide with autoinduction of CYP3A4-mediated metabolism implemented as ifosfamide-driven inhibition of enzyme-pool degradation (no lag time); estimated in 15 adults with soft tissue sarcoma receiving 9 or 12 g/m^2 as a 72-h continuous IV infusion.
Iloperidone (Pei 2016) Population PK model for iloperidone and its two major plasma metabolites P-88 (M1, contributes to the therapeutic profile via D2 / 5-HT2A binding affinity comparable to the parent) and P-95 (M2, CYP2D6-mediated hydroxylation metabolite, pharmacologically less active) in 70 Chinese patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder receiving oral iloperidone 12-24 mg/day twice daily (Pei 2016). One-compartment first-order absorption (Ka FIXED at 2.26 1/h, estimated in a separate forward analysis of healthy-volunteer concentration-time data digitised from Pei 2016 ref [23] and fixed for the patient model to stabilize absorption identification under sparse sampling) and first-order parallel-pathway elimination of iloperidone via three rate constants: K20 (other elimination pathways), K23 (formation of M1), and K24 (formation of M2). Each metabolite then occupies its own one-compartment model with FIXED apparent volume V3 = V4 = 10 L (the fractions of iloperidone converted to each metabolite are not identifiable from the cohort because no co-administered tracer was available, so K23, K30 and K24, K40 are estimated against the FIXED apparent metabolite volume per Methods) and first-order elimination (K30 for M1, K40 for M2). Inter-occasion variability was retained on K20 in the published final model but is NOT carried as a separate eta in this nlmixr2lib extraction (see Errata in the validation vignette). Mass units (mg) rather than molar units are used per the source’s convention because the molecular weights of iloperidone (427.3 g/mol), M1 (429.4 g/mol), and M2 (429.2 g/mol) are within 0.5%. CYP2D6*10 (rs1065852) polymorphism affects both metabolite formation rate constants: T/T homozygotes have K23 1.34-fold the C/C + C/T pooled reference; C/T heterozygotes and T/T homozygotes have K24 reduced to 0.693 and 0.492 of the C/C wild-type reference respectively.
Imatinib (Chien 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for oral imatinib in healthy adult volunteers (Chien 2022); first-order absorption preceded by a Savic 2007-style analytical transit-compartment chain (mean transit time and number of transit compartments estimated), first-order elimination, and an OMEGA BLOCK between the IIV on CL and V1 motivated by their estimated correlation r > 0.9. No covariates were retained in the final model.
Imatinib (Schindler 2017) Joint tumor-dynamics PD model for imatinib-treated GIST liver metastases (Schindler 2017). Three size metrics (maximum transaxial diameter MTD in mm, software-segmented actual volume Vactual in mL, calculated ellipsoidal volume Vellipsoid in mL) follow a logistic tumor-growth model with a linear DOSE-dependent shrinkage term and a mono-exponential drug-effect washout (resistance development). Tumor density (Hounsfield units) follows an indirect-response model in which imatinib linearly stimulates the loss rate. Each subject can carry up to two liver lesions (lesion 1 has the larger baseline by convention); the binary covariate MIX_LARGE_BASE selects between a mixture subpopulation with larger lesion baselines (MIX_LARGE_BASE = 1, P = 0.348) and a smaller-baseline subpopulation (MIX_LARGE_BASE = 0). Drug exposure enters via the daily dose normalized to the median 400 mg, so DOSE is supplied as a per-record time-varying covariate (in mg/day). The OS and PFS time-to-event arms of the source publication are not encoded as ODE compartments here (see vignette Assumptions and deviations).
Imipenem (Lamoth 2009) One-compartment IV population PK model for imipenem in adult febrile neutropenic patients with hematological malignancies (Lamoth 2009). Total clearance is the additive sum of a non-renal arm and a renal arm linear in Cockcroft-Gault GFR; the central volume of distribution scales linearly with total body weight referenced to 70 kg. A single log-normal inter-individual variability term is applied multiplicatively to the total clearance (TVCL = CL_nonren + CL_renal * GFR / 100), and residual error is proportional.
Imipenem amikacin PA001 (Yadav 2017) In vitro (static-concentration time-kill). Mechanism-based PK/PD (Bulitta life-cycle growth) model of bacterial killing and resistance for imipenem combined with amikacin against carbapenem- and amikacin-resistant clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate FADDI-PA001 (MIC_IPM = 32 mg/L, MIC_AMK = 32 mg/L). Three pre-existing bacterial subpopulations with signal-molecule growth inhibition and aminoglycoside-mediated outer-membrane permeabilisation (mechanistic synergy)
Imipenem amikacin PA088 (Yadav 2017) In vitro (static-concentration time-kill). Mechanism-based PK/PD (Bulitta life-cycle growth) model of bacterial killing and resistance for imipenem combined with amikacin against carbapenem- and tobramycin-resistant clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate FADDI-PA088 (MIC_IPM = 16 mg/L, MIC_AMK = 4 mg/L). Three pre-existing bacterial subpopulations with signal-molecule growth inhibition and aminoglycoside-mediated outer-membrane permeabilisation (mechanistic synergy)
Imipenem tobramycin PA001 (Yadav 2017) In vitro (static-concentration time-kill). Mechanism-based PK/PD (Bulitta life-cycle growth) model of bacterial killing and resistance for imipenem combined with tobramycin against carbapenem- and amikacin-resistant clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate FADDI-PA001 (MIC_IPM = 32 mg/L, MIC_TOB = 4 mg/L). Three pre-existing bacterial subpopulations with signal-molecule growth inhibition and aminoglycoside-mediated outer-membrane permeabilisation (mechanistic synergy)
Imipenem tobramycin PA022 (Yadav 2017) In vitro (static-concentration time-kill). Mechanism-based PK/PD (Bulitta life-cycle growth) model of bacterial killing and resistance for imipenem combined with tobramycin against carbapenem-resistant and aminoglycoside-resistant clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate FADDI-PA022 (MIC_IPM = 16 mg/L, MIC_TOB = 8 mg/L). Three pre-existing bacterial subpopulations with signal-molecule growth inhibition and aminoglycoside-mediated outer-membrane permeabilisation (mechanistic synergy)
Imipenem tobramycin PA088 (Yadav 2017) In vitro (static-concentration time-kill). Mechanism-based PK/PD (Bulitta life-cycle growth) model of bacterial killing and resistance for imipenem combined with tobramycin against carbapenem- and aminoglycoside-resistant clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate FADDI-PA088 (MIC_IPM = 16 mg/L, MIC_TOB = 32 mg/L). Three pre-existing bacterial subpopulations with signal-molecule growth inhibition and aminoglycoside-mediated outer-membrane permeabilisation (mechanistic synergy)
Immunoglobulin (Cheng 2026) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) replacement therapy in pediatric primary-immunodeficiency and secondary-antibody-deficiency patients (Cheng 2026)
Indacaterol (Renard 2011) MBMA. Study-level Bayesian Emax meta-analysis of trough FEV1 dose-response to once-daily inhaled indacaterol in adults with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pooled from 11 placebo-controlled trials (7,476 patients; indacaterol doses 18.75 to 600 ug once daily). Algebraic Emax dose-response on placebo-corrected steady-state trough FEV1 (mL); the model is constrained to a null response at dose = 0 because the source data are contrasts to placebo. The original Bayesian analysis included between-study (delta_i) and between-arm-within-study (gamma_ij) random effects on Emax with unif(0, 0.25) priors; the paper reports only the posterior means of the structural Emax and ED50, not the random-effect posterior summaries, comparator mean effects (formoterol, salmeterol, tiotropium), or a per-observation residual sigma. The model file therefore encodes the indacaterol-only structural Emax curve with between-study and between-arm variances fixed to zero following the Vargo 2014 MBMA precedent. Suitable for simulating typical-trajectory study-arm-mean trough FEV1 improvement vs placebo at steady state (Week 2 to Month 6); not suitable for individual-subject simulation.
Indinavir (Csajka 2004) One-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for oral indinavir 800 mg three-times-daily (alone) or 800 mg twice-daily with low-dose ritonavir in HIV-infected adults; concomitant ritonavir, sex, and body weight enter apparent oral clearance as multiplicative covariate effects (Csajka 2004).
Infliximab (Berends 2019) Two-compartment TMDD-QSS population PK/target-dynamics model of infliximab and free TNF in adults with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis (Berends 2019)
Infliximab (Faelens 2021) One-compartment IV population PK model of infliximab in adults with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis (Faelens 2021 adapted model; baseline-covariate-only re-fit of Dreesen 2019)
Infliximab (Fasanmade 2009) Two-compartment population PK model of infliximab (anti-TNF-alpha) in patients with ulcerative colitis (Fasanmade 2009)
Infliximab (Frymoyer 2017) Two-compartment population PK model of intravenous infliximab in children and adults with Crohn’s disease (Frymoyer 2017; structural model and parameter values from the Fasanmade et al. REACH + ACCENT I analysis reproduced in Frymoyer 2017 Methods)
Infliximab (Hanzel 2021) Two-compartment population PK model of subcutaneous and intravenous infliximab CT-P13 (biosimilar) in adults with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (Hanzel 2021)
Inotuzumab (Wu 2024) Two-compartment population PK model for inotuzumab ozogamicin in pediatric and adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL) and adult patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL); linear plus time-dependent (target-mediated) clearance with covariate effects on CL_SS, Vc, CL_TIME, and kdes (Wu 2024, ITCC-059 pediatric trial pooled with 11 adult studies).
Interferon alfa 2b (Chatelut 1999) One-compartment population PK model for subcutaneous alpha-2b interferon (Intron A) in adults with chronic hepatitis C virus infection (Chatelut 1999), with sequential zero-order then first-order absorption (a fraction Fz of the bioavailable dose is absorbed at zero-order over duration tk0, the remaining (1 - Fz) is absorbed at first-order rate ka after tk0) and first-order elimination. Apparent oral clearance CL/F is reduced by 63.8% in chronic-haemodialysis patients relative to patients with normal renal function (HEMODIAL = 1 vs 0); apparent central volume of distribution V/F scales linearly with body surface area (BSA). Proportional residual error.
InterferonAlfa2a (Jeon 2013) Joint PK-PD model for a sustained-release subcutaneous formulation of interferon alfa-2a (SR-IFN-alpha) and the serum neopterin response in healthy adult male volunteers (Jeon 2013). Pharmacokinetics: one-compartment with first-order elimination and a parallel mixture of zero- and first-order absorption. A fraction Fz = exp(RF)/(1 + exp(RF)) of the dose is absorbed by a zero-order process with duration D2 entering the central compartment directly; the remaining 1 - Fz is absorbed by a first-order process (rate Ka) from a depot compartment with lag time ALAG, accounting for the second concentration peak observed around 100 h post-injection. Pharmacodynamics: indirect-response (turnover) model for serum neopterin (baseline BASE = Kin/Kout) with a single transit compartment placed between the stimulus and the observed neopterin, delaying the neopterin response through mean transit time MTT. The drug stimulates the zero-order production rate of neopterin through a sigmoid Emax function E(C) = EMAX * C^GA / (EC50(t)^GA + C^GA), where EC50 is time-dependent and increases monotonically over time as EC50(t) = ECB * (1 + CA * (1 - exp(-CB * t))) – an empirical saturation device that captures the observed loss of the neopterin dose-response between groups (9, 18, 27, 36 MIU) over the 0-264 h observation window. No covariate effects were retained in the final model. Doses are entered in MIU (10^6 IU); the published apparent clearance (CL/F = 12.2 L/h) and apparent volume of distribution (V/F = 691 L) match values previously reported for IFN-alpha in healthy subjects (Reference [19] of Jeon 2013). The model uses an explicit specific-activity conversion (1 MIU = 4 ug = 4e6 pg, from the WHO IFN-alpha-2a International Standard at 2.5e8 IU/mg) so the doses in user data can be entered in MIU and the simulated Cc is returned in pg/mL. The specific-activity conversion is not stated in the paper itself; it is documented in the validation vignette’s Assumptions and deviations section.
Ipatasertib (Yoshida 2021) Joint parent + metabolite population pharmacokinetic model for oral ipatasertib (AKT kinase inhibitor under development for breast and prostate cancer) and its primary active metabolite M1 (G-037720) in 342 adult patients with cancer from five Phase 1 and 2 studies (Yoshida 2021). Each analyte is described by a 3-compartment disposition model with sequential zero-order then first-order absorption from its own depot. The two depots receive the oral parent dose simultaneously (the user supplies one event per depot with the same amount and time); both bioavailability anchors are fixed at F = 1 because absolute parent F and the fraction of parent metabolised to M1 are not separately identifiable from oral data alone, and the apparent M1 absorption parameters (kf, Dur, F) subsume formation, first-pass survival, and metabolite bioavailability per the source. Retained parent covariates: power effect of age on apparent CL/F, linear-additive effect of abiraterone coadministration on apparent CL/F, power effect of body weight on apparent F, and a +20.1% multiple-dose increment in apparent F representing CYP3A auto-inhibition by ipatasertib. Retained metabolite covariates: power effects of body weight on apparent V3 and Q3 of M1, a +33.1% multiple-dose increment in apparent F_M1, and an additional +61.5% abiraterone-by-multiple- dose effect on apparent F_M1. The paper fitted parent and metabolite in TWO SEPARATE NONMEM runs (Yoshida 2021 Discussion); this file collapses them into one rxode2 model with NO mechanistic fractional-conversion linkage, mirroring the paper’s simulation strategy. See vignette Assumptions and deviations.
Ipilimumab (Sanghavi 2020) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4 IgG1) with time-varying clearance via a sigmoid emax function in patients with advanced solid tumors receiving ipilimumab alone or in combination with nivolumab (Sanghavi 2020)
Isatuximab (Brillac 2025) Two-compartment population PK model with linear elimination for isatuximab in pediatric and adult patients with relapsed/refractory acute leukemias (Brillac 2025)
Isatuximab (Fau 2020) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenous isatuximab (anti-CD38 IgG1) in adults with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, with parallel time-varying linear and Michaelis-Menten eliminations from the central compartment (Fau 2020). The linear clearance follows a sigmoidal Emax decay from baseline to steady state; the magnitude of the decay differs by multiple-myeloma immunoglobulin type.
Isavuconazole (Desai 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with a Weibull-function first-order absorption stage for isavuconazole administered as the prodrug isavuconazonium sulfate (p.o. or i.v.) to healthy adults and patients with invasive fungal infections (Desai 2016 SECURE pooled phase 1 / phase 3 popPK)
Isoniazid (Horita 2018) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with first-order absorption and linear elimination for oral isoniazid in Ghanaian children with active tuberculosis (Horita 2018); NAT2 slow-vs-nonslow acetylator phenotype on apparent oral clearance with separate typical-value clearances and separate IIV omegas; allometric weight scaling on CL/F and Q/F (fixed 0.75) and V1/F and V2/F (fixed 1.0) normalised to the cohort median 14.3 kg.
Itraconazole (Abuhelwa 2015) Population PK model for oral itraconazole and its active metabolite hydroxy-itraconazole in healthy adults (Abuhelwa 2015). Two-compartment parent with 4-transit-compartment Savic-style absorption and a one-compartment hydroxy-itraconazole metabolite eliminated by mixed linear and Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Encodes the SUBA-itraconazole vs Sporanox formulation effect on relative bioavailability (with formulation-dependent scaling of the F variability) and the fed-vs-fasted effect on both relative bioavailability and the transit-absorption rate constant; the metabolic conversion ratio fm is assumed = 1 so all parent clearance becomes metabolite, and the metabolite CL/V are apparent values scaled by the unknown fm.
Itraconazole (Hennig 2006) Population PK model for oral itraconazole and its active metabolite hydroxy-itraconazole in paediatric cystic-fibrosis and bone-marrow-transplant patients (Hennig 2006). One-compartment parent + one-compartment metabolite with first-order absorption, first-order metabolic conversion (fm fixed to 1), allometric weight scaling on parent CL/F (0.75) and Vd/F (1.0), and formulation-specific ka and relative bioavailability for capsule vs oral solution.
Itraconazole (Hennig 2007) Two-compartment population PK model for oral itraconazole and its one-compartment hydroxy-itraconazole metabolite in adult cystic fibrosis patients (Hennig 2007), with first-order absorption from a depot, formulation-specific absorption rate constants and bioavailability for capsule vs. oral solution selected by the binary FORM_CAPSULE covariate, and a single absorption lag-time shared across both formulations. The fraction of itraconazole metabolised to hydroxy-itraconazole is fixed to 1; metabolite parameters are reported as CL_m/(Ff_m) and V_m/(Ff_m).
Ixazomib (Gupta 2017) Three-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for the oral proteasome inhibitor ixazomib (Ninlaro) in 755 adult patients with multiple myeloma, lymphoma, solid tumours, or light-chain amyloidosis pooled across ten phase I, I/II, and III trials including TOURMALINE-MM1 (Gupta 2017). First-order linear absorption with a 13 min lag time describes oral dosing; intravenous and oral data share the same disposition kinetics. Inter-individual variability is estimated on clearance, bioavailability F, and the second peripheral volume V4, with a strong (82%) correlation between log CL and log F. Body surface area on V4 (reference 1.87 m^2, exponent 2.06) is the only retained covariate; sex, age, race, mild/moderate renal impairment, mild hepatic impairment, smoking status, and CYP-modulatory concomitant medications had no clinically relevant effect on systemic exposure. Residual error is additive on log-transformed concentration with a time-after-dose-varying standard deviation declining exponentially from SD1 = 1.90 to SD0 = 0.46 with rate KSD = 0.84/h (Karlsson 1995 model 3).
Ixekizumab (Jackson 2022) Two-compartment linear population PK model for subcutaneous ixekizumab in paediatric patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis (IXORA-PEDS; Jackson 2022)
Ketoprofen (Park 2001) One-compartment oral PK plus Holford-Sheiner effect-compartment for synovial fluid disposition of ketoprofen in adults with arthritis at steady state on 100 mg oral twice-daily dosing (Park 2001 Tables 2-3, Eq. 1; effect-compartment elimination rate keo = 0.16 1/h, peak synovial:plasma ratio 0.77 with 3.1 h time lag).
Ketorolac (Valitalo 2017) Three-compartment population PK model for IV ketorolac in adults, jointly fit to R-ketorolac and S-ketorolac plasma concentrations after racemic IV dosing in women at delivery, postpartum women, nonpregnant women, and men (Valitalo 2017 BJCP). Body-weight allometric scaling on clearance and volumes (reference 71 kg) plus proportional pregnancy-at-delivery and male-sex effects on clearance (and pregnancy-at-delivery on volumes), shared between enantiomers.
Lamivudine (Archary 2019) One-compartment population PK model for lamivudine in severely malnourished HIV-infected children (Archary 2019); CL/F matures with age via a sigmoid Emax function, Vc/F decreases linearly with serum triglyceride, and ka steps up between day 1 and day 14 of antiretroviral treatment
Lamivudine (Bouazza 2010) Two-compartment population PK model for once-daily oral lamivudine in HIV-infected West African children (Bouazza 2010); allometric weight scaling on CL/F, Q/F, Vc/F, and Vp/F with reference body weight 16.8 kg, and absorption rate constant Ka structurally fixed to the disposition distribution-phase eigenvalue (Ka = alpha = 0.71 1/h) from the literature
Lamivudine (Bouazza 2011) Two-compartment oral popPK model for lamivudine in HIV-infected children from neonates to adolescents (Bouazza 2011)
Lamivudine (Moore 1999) One-compartment population PK model for oral lamivudine in HIV-1-infected adults pooled from the NUCA3001 and NUCA3002 phase III trials (Moore 1999); CL/F scales with a Cockcroft-Gault-style renal function index ((140 - AGE)/(CREAT * 100), * 0.85 if female) raised to an estimated power and with linear body weight, V/F and ka carry no covariates
Lamotrigine (He 2012) One-compartment population PK model for oral lamotrigine in Chinese paediatric patients with epilepsy aged 0.5-17 years (He 2012). First-order absorption with Ka fixed at 1.0 1/h and bioavailability fixed at 1 (lamotrigine steady-state trough therapeutic-drug-monitoring data, which do not identify Ka or F), and first-order elimination from a single central compartment. Apparent oral clearance is scaled by an estimated power of total body weight (exponent 0.635) and modified exponentially by concomitant antiepileptic comedication: valproate (CONMED_VPA) reduces CL, while the enzyme-inducers carbamazepine (CONMED_CBZ) and phenobarbital (CONMED_PB) increase CL. Apparent central volume is fixed at 16.7 L at the 27.87 kg reference weight, scaled linearly with total body weight (allometric exponent fixed at 1.0).
Lamotrigine (Hussein 1997) One-compartment population PK model for oral lamotrigine monotherapy in adults and adolescents newly diagnosed with epilepsy; apparent oral clearance carries a first-order auto-induction term that decays toward a steady-state value over treatment duration and a multiplicative race effect for Asians vs Caucasians; apparent volume of distribution and absorption rate constant are time-invariant with no covariate effects retained in the final model (Hussein 1997).
Lampalizumab (Le 2015) Combined ocular-serum target-mediated drug-disposition (TMDD) model with quasi-steady-state binding approximation for intravitreally administered lampalizumab (anti-complement factor D Fab) and total complement factor D (CFD) in adults with geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration. Vitreous humor is the dosing compartment (depot) and the site of drug-target binding; aqueous humor lampalizumab and aqueous humor total CFD observations are derived from vitreous via constant partition coefficients; serum lampalizumab is the central elimination compartment with linear first-order clearance. Age and female sex modify ocular and systemic elimination rates respectively (Le 2015 Table 1, Eq. 1-7).
Landiolol (Kunisawa 2015) Two-compartment intravenous population PK model with lag time for landiolol hydrochloride (an ultra-short-acting cardioselective beta1-adrenergic receptor blocker) in adult patients with peripheral arterial disease undergoing peripheral arterial surgery, with linear body-weight normalization on CL, Vc, Q and Vp (Kunisawa 2015)
Lanreotide (Buil-Bruna 2015) One-compartment population PK model with parallel first- and zero-order subcutaneous absorption for lanreotide Autogel/Depot in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (Buil-Bruna 2015). A linear effect of body weight on apparent clearance and a small categorical effect of sex on the first-order absorbed fraction are retained; absolute bioavailability F is not identifiable and is structurally anchored at 1, so apparent CL/F and Vd/F are reported. Concentrations are predicted in ng/mL; residual error is additive on the log-transformed observations (LTBS), mapped to proportional in linear space.
Lansoprazole (Sakurai 2007) Two-compartment population PK model for intravenously administered lansoprazole in 56 healthy Japanese adult males (Sakurai 2007). Volumes (V1, V2) and clearances (CL, Q) scale linearly with body weight via per-kg reference values; systemic clearance is stratified by CYP2C19 metabolizer phenotype using two binary indicators (homoEM reference; heteroEM and PM groups carry multiplicative factors of 0.612 and 0.212 respectively). Inter-individual variability is log-normal on V1, CL, V2 (no IIV on Q); residual error is combined proportional plus additive.
Lebrikizumab (Zhu 2017) Lebrikizumab population PK model (Zhu 2017): two-compartment model with first-order absorption after SC dosing in adults with moderate-to-severe asthma.
Lenvatinib (Gupta 2016) Three-compartment population PK model for lenvatinib in healthy subjects and patients with cancer (Gupta 2016). Simultaneous first-order plus zero-order oral absorption into the central compartment, linear elimination, and covariate effects of body weight (allometric on CL/F and Q/F with exponent 0.75 and linear on V/F), CYP3A4 inducers (+30 percent on CL/F), CYP3A4 inhibitors (-7.8 percent on CL/F), serum albumin < 30 g/L (-16.3 percent on CL/F), alkaline phosphatase > ULN (-11.7 percent on CL/F), healthy-subject cohort (+15 percent on CL/F vs cancer patients), and capsule vs tablet formulation (relative bioavailability 0.896).
Levetiracetam (Shin 2017) One-compartment population PK model for levetiracetam in Korean neonates with seizures (Shin 2017). Structural parameters (V, CL) reported on a per-kg-body-weight basis (linear scaling by body weight). Drug absorption was not modelled because trough-style sampling between 6 and 23 hours after dose did not capture the absorption phase; intravenous and oral doses are therefore modelled as bolus inputs directly into the central compartment with bioavailability fixed at 1.
Levetiracetam (Wang 2012) One-compartment population PK model for levetiracetam (LEV) in Chinese pediatric epilepsy patients (Wang 2012). First-order oral absorption and linear elimination (NONMEM ADVAN2 TRANS2). Body weight is the only retained covariate; it enters CL/F as a power-style allometric term with reference weight 25 kg (cohort median).
Levocetirizine (Hussein 2005) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and first-order elimination for orally administered levocetirizine in atopic young children (12-48 months, 8-20 kg) receiving 0.125 mg/kg twice-daily levocetirizine (administered as 0.25 mg/kg twice-daily racemic cetirizine) for 18 months in the ETAC study (Hussein 2005). CL/F and V/F are linear functions of body weight (CL/F = 0.244 + 0.0442 * WT L/h; V/F = 0.639 * WT L). The absorption rate constant ka is parameterised as ka = theta_ka + CL/V to guard against flip-flop kinetics, with theta_ka = 1.140 1/h and CL/V contributing on average less than 5% to ka. Residual variability is additive with two concentration-dependent magnitudes: 53.5 ng/mL for Cc <= 400 ng/mL and 316 ng/mL for Cc > 400 ng/mL (the 400 ng/mL threshold was selected by sensitivity analysis and has no clinical or therapeutic implication). Bioavailability is anchored at F = 1 here; the paper additionally estimated F_noncomp = 0.281 applied to 12% of records flagged as suspected noncompliance and recorded in the vignette Assumptions and deviations.
Levofloxacin (Denti 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for oral levofloxacin in South African children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) disease or exposure (Denti 2018; n = 109; median age 2.1 yr; median weight 12.4 kg). First-order absorption with an absorption lag time, allometric scaling fixed to 0.75 on CL / Q and 1 on Vc / Vp with the population-median 12 kg as the reference weight, and a Hill-type maturation function on CL driven by postmenstrual age (PMAGE_50 = 10.6 mo, gamma = 3.39; PMAGE = postnatal age + 9 mo assuming term gestation). Covariate effects: HIV-positive children have 15.9% lower CL; nasogastric-tube (NGT) administration shortens the absorption lag time by 85.6% relative to the oral reference. F is fixed at 1; the additive residual error is fixed at 20% of the LLOQ (0.0160 mg/L).
Levofloxacin rat (Hurtado 2014) Preclinical (rat). Three-compartment population PK model for unbound levofloxacin in plasma and prostate interstitial fluid in male Wistar rats after a single 7 mg/kg IV bolus, with simultaneous fitting of total plasma concentrations (central, Vc) and free prostate ISF concentrations measured by microdialysis (effect compartment, apparent volume V3* = V_prostate / fu_prostate). Prostate kinetics are asymmetric: uptake from central is first-order (k13), efflux back to central combines a linear first-order term (k31) with a saturable Michaelis-Menten efflux (Vmax, kM) consistent with active transporter involvement. The standard central <-> peripheral1 disposition uses macro-constants CL, Q, Vc, Vp (Hurtado 2014).
Ligelizumab (Bienczak 2025) Two-compartment population PK model for ligelizumab in adolescent and adult patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria and healthy adult volunteers (Bienczak 2025)
Linagliptin (Retlich 2015) Two-compartment population PK model with concentration-dependent (saturable) binding of linagliptin to dipeptidyl peptidase-4 in both central and peripheral compartments, coupled with a population sigmoid Emax PK/PD model relating total linagliptin plasma concentration to plasma DPP-4 activity, in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (Retlich 2015 Tables 4 and 5).
Linagliptin (Tadayasu 2014) Two-compartment target-mediated drug disposition population PK model for linagliptin with quasi-equilibrium concentration-dependent binding to DPP-4 in both the central and peripheral compartments, coupled with an occupancy-based DPP-4-inhibition pharmacodynamic model (DPP-4 inhibition = Emax * Cbound/BMAX in the central compartment), in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (Tadayasu 2014 Table 3).
Linezolid (Schmidt 2009) In vitro (Staphylococcus aureus MRSA strain OC2878). Mechanism-based PD model of bacterial-killing time-kill curves for linezolid, the first-in-class FDA-approved oxazolidinone (Schmidt 2009). Susceptibility-based two-subpopulation structure: an active self-replicating susceptible pool with logistic carrying-capacity limit and a dormant persister pool that is insusceptible to killing; first-order S->P conversion (P->S held fixed at 0), natural-death loss from both pools, exponential turn-on of growth and of drug-induced killing, and Emax killing of the susceptible subpopulation by the antibiotic. Linezolid was experimentally stable over 24 h so the published model carries kdeg = 0; for dynamic syringe-replacement experiments the user supplies the dilution-equivalent rate (~log(2)/5 1/h for a t1/2 ~ 5 h linezolid regimen) via rxSolve(…, params = c(kdeg = …)). The same joint fit is shared with Schmidt_2009_rwj416457 (only EC50 and kdeg differ).
Linezolid (Tsuji 2017) Population PK/PD model for linezolid in hospitalized adult and pediatric patients with MRSA or gram-positive cocci infections (Tsuji 2017). PK is a two-compartment model with first-order oral absorption and an additive renal-plus-non-renal clearance structure (CL = CL_nonren + CL_renal * RF, where RF = CrCl / 100 mL/min/70 kg standardized to 70 kg by allometry); plasma total and unbound concentrations are modelled simultaneously with an estimated fraction-unbound (FU = 0.823) linking the two. PD is a Friberg-style semi-mechanistic platelet turnover model (one proliferating compartment, three transit compartments, one circulating compartment) with an empirical (PLTZERO/PLT)^gamma feedback term and a published mixture model of two thrombocytopenia mechanisms: linear inhibition of platelet synthesis (PDI, 97% of patients, SLOPE on RFORM) and saturable stimulation of platelet elimination (PDS, 3% of patients, Emax on Kcirc), selected per subject by the binary covariate MIX_PDI.
Liraglutide (CarlssonPetri 2021) Liraglutide PK model in adolescents (Carlsson Petri 2021)
Lopinavir (Archary 2018) One-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for oral lopinavir/ritonavir in severely malnourished HIV-infected children, with FFM allometric scaling and a linear total-cholesterol effect on apparent clearance (Archary 2018).
Lopinavir (Jullien 2006) One-compartment population PK model for oral lopinavir (boosted with ritonavir) in HIV-infected children from birth to 18 years, with the absorption and elimination rate constants constrained to a single shared rate constant k = CL/F divided by V/F (Jullien 2006, simplified parameterisation per Wahlby 2002). Body weight is allometrically scaled on CL/F and V/F (reference 27 kg), nevirapine coadministration increases CL/F by 34%, and male sex increases CL/F by 39% in children older than 12 years.
Lopinavir placental (Fauchet 2015) One-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for total lopinavir in HIV-infected pregnant and nonpregnant women with a maternal-to-fetal effect-compartment placental-transfer chain and a downstream fetal-to-amniotic-fluid distribution-and-elimination chain; a 39% pregnancy effect is applied multiplicatively to apparent maternal CL (Fauchet 2015 MFLA submodel).
Lopinavir unbound (Fauchet 2015) One-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for lopinavir in HIV-infected pregnant and nonpregnant women parameterised on the unbound fraction, with total LPV reconstructed from a linear HSA binding term plus a saturable single-site AAG binding term (Fauchet 2015 unbound submodel).
Lumefantrine (Hietala 2010) Population PK model for oral lumefantrine (LUM) in 50 Tanzanian children (ages 1-10 years, weights 8-30 kg) with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria treated with the standard six-dose weight-based Coartem (artemether 20 mg + lumefantrine 120 mg per tablet) regimen at 0, 8, 24, 36, 48, and 60 hours (Hietala 2010). One-compartment disposition with first-order absorption preceded by an absorption lag time. The paper tested co-administration with full-fat (3.4%) cow’s milk as a categorical covariate on the PK parameters of LUM; the effect did not improve the model fit and is not encoded here (Discussion: ‘the resulting number of doses actually administered with an adequate amount of milk may have been too small to allow the detection of a difference’). All PK parameters are reported per kg body weight (linear weight normalisation applied inside model()).
Lumefantrine (Kloprogge 2013) Population PK model for oral lumefantrine in pregnant and non-pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda after the standard fixed-dose oral artemether-lumefantrine treatment (Kloprogge 2013). Flexible five-compartment transit absorption chain into a two-compartment disposition model with relative bioavailability F1 fixed at 1, log-normal IIV on CL / Vp / MTT / F, and covariate effects of pregnancy on intercompartmental clearance (-36.5%, categorical) and body temperature on mean absorption transit time (+16.5% per degC over 36.0-39.8 degC, linear-deviation centered at the cohort median 36.9 degC).
Lumefantrine (Kloprogge 2018) Population PK model for oral lumefantrine in 1,347 patients (children, non-pregnant adults, and second-/third-trimester pregnant women) from 26 studies in 12 African, Oceanian, and Southeast Asian countries with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria treated with the standard fixed-dose artemether-lumefantrine regimen (Kloprogge 2018 PLOS Medicine). Two-compartment disposition with first-order absorption; F fixed at 1 with log-normal IIV (Box-Cox shape -0.343 on the F IIV departure from log-normal not reproduced here – see Errata); allometric scaling of CL/F and Q/F (power 3/4) and of Vc/F and Vp/F (power 1) on body weight centered at the model-building median 42 kg; dose-saturable absorption on F with Dose50 = 3.86 mg/kg; exponential effect of log10 admission parasitaemia on F centered at log10(15,800/uL) = 4.2 (coefficient -0.643 per log10 unit); proportional pregnancy effect on ka (+35.2% in second and third trimester). IIV on Vc/F (CV 144%) and F (CV 70.3%); additive log-scale residual SD 0.323.
Lumefantrine (Simpson 2013) In vitro (P. falciparum). Sigmoid Emax inhibition model of lumefantrine effect on hypoxanthine uptake by clinical Plasmodium falciparum isolates from the Thai-Myanmar border (Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, 1993-2005), with pfmdr1 genotype covariate effects on EC50. The ‘subject’ in the NLME framework is a parasite isolate (n=324 isolates with lumefantrine data). STIM_LUMEFANTRINE_NM is the per-well drug concentration in the in vitro hypoxanthine-uptake-inhibition assay; the model has no PK and no time evolution. E0 and Emax are fixed per Simpson 2013 Table 3 footnote.
Lumiracoxib rat (VasquezBahena 2009) Preclinical (rat). Two-compartment population PK plus indirect-response PK/PD model for the antinociceptive effect of oral lumiracoxib in carrageenan-induced thermal hyperalgesia in female Wistar rats (Vasquez-Bahena 2009). PK: first-order absorption with lag time and dose-dependent relative bioavailability. PD: time-variant (gamma function) carrageenan-induced COX-2 synthesis with first-order COX-2 degradation; lumiracoxib reversibly inactivates COX-2 via a competitive binding model (COX-2_act = KD * COX-2 / (KD + Cp)). The level of inflammatory mediators (MED) equals the active COX-2 amount and drives the paw withdrawal latency response LT = LT0 / (1 + MED).
Lumiracoxib rat (VelezdeMendizabal 2012) Preclinical (rat). Semi-mechanistic PD model of the formalin-induced antinociceptive response to lumiracoxib in adult female Wistar rats (Velez de Mendizabal 2012). No PK measurements were made: lumiracoxib was tracked through two virtual compartments – intraplantar local (lumxLocal) and intrathecal central (lumxCns) – each decaying monoexponentially at first-order rates K_D_Local and K_D_CNS from a bolus equal to the administered dose (10, 30, 100, or 300 ug per route). The biphasic formalin-induced nociceptive response (flinch count per 1-min window) is modeled as the sum of an early phase PN1, a monoexponential decay from an initial pain load PN1_0 with rate K_PN1 (insensitive to lumiracoxib), and a delayed phase PN2 built from upregulated COX-2 in the local and CNS compartments. Both COX-2 species are taken proportional to a pain-mediator signal MED whose time course is the analytical Erlang-transit kernel of Savic 2007 (MED0 = 1; chain length NC = 6.5; transit rate K_TR = 0.233 min^-1), and the proportionality constants theta_COX2_L / theta_COX2_CNS scale MED to flinch units in the local and CNS arms respectively. Lumiracoxib inhibits upregulated COX-2 in each arm via E = 1 / (1 + LUMX) with an implicit IC50 of one dose unit (an IC50 parameter was tested and found not significant). Model is the second-pass selection (Table I of Velez de Mendizabal 2012); the IC50, delayed-COX-2, and Emax variants were rejected during model development.
Luspatercept (Chen 2020) One-compartment population PK model for luspatercept (activin receptor type IIB / IgG1 Fc-fusion) in adults with anemia due to myelodysplastic syndromes (Chen 2020), with first-order subcutaneous absorption, first-order linear elimination parameterised in CL/F and V1/F, body weight + age + baseline albumin power covariates on CL/F, and body weight + baseline albumin power covariates on V1/F.
M3g rat (Xie 2000) Preclinical (rat, male Sprague-Dawley). Blood-brain barrier (BBB) distributional model for morphine-3-glucuronide (M3G) in rat as published by Xie et al. (2000, Br J Pharmacol): a one-compartment plasma PK driven by an unbound systemic clearance CL_u = 3.8 mL/min from the paper’s Model A, coupled to a two-compartment brain model (brain 1 = sampled brain extracellular fluid via striatal microdialysis, brain 2 = deeper redistribution compartment) with asymmetric BBB exchange (separate unbound influx CL_u,in and efflux CL_u,out across the BBB) and a symmetric intercompartmental clearance Q_br between the two brain compartments. The model captures a probenecid-sensitive organic-anion transport contribution to BBB influx: CL_u,in is 1.55-fold higher under co-administered probenecid (CONMED_PROBENECID = 1) while CL_u,out, Q_br, and the two brain volumes are unchanged.
Magnesium sulfate (Easterling 2018) One-compartment population PK model of magnesium sulfate (MgSO4-7H2O) with intravenous administration and an endogenous baseline magnesium term added to the administered drug, in pregnant women with severe preeclampsia comparing continuous IV infusion vs serial IV bolus dosing (Easterling 2018).
MagnesiumSulfate (Salinger 2013) One-compartment population PK model of magnesium sulphate (MgSO4-7H2O) with first-order intramuscular absorption, IV dosing into the central compartment, and an endogenous baseline magnesium term added to the administered drug, in pregnant women with pre-eclampsia (Salinger 2013).
Matuzumab (Kuester 2008) Two-compartment population PK model for matuzumab (humanised anti-EGFR IgG1 monoclonal antibody) in adults with advanced carcinoma (Kuester 2008), with parallel first-order linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment; body weight on linear CL and central volume.
Mavrilimumab (Stein 2018) Two-compartment QSS TMDD typical-value fit for mavrilimumab (anti-GM-CSF receptor mAb) used to illustrate the critical concentration (Ccrit) for nonlinear PK (Stein and Peletier 2018 Table 1)
MBG453 (Xu 2023) Two-compartment population PK model for sabatolimab (MBG453, anti-TIM-3 IgG4) with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment, fit to pooled adult patients with advanced solid tumors and hematologic malignancies (Xu 2023).
MEDI528 (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for MEDI-528 in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Medi7836 (Hood 2021) Population PK-PD binding model for MEDI7836 (anti-IL13 IgG1 lambda-YTE mAb) in healthy adult males (Hood 2021): two-compartment SC PK with first-order absorption, ADA-on-CL covariate, plus IL13 turnover, fixed Kon/Koff binding to MEDI7836:IL13 complex, complex distribution sharing CL/Q/V3 with parent drug, and a serum PD observation modelled as the molar sum of free IL13 and a small fraction of complex.
Mefloquine (Hoglund 2018) Population PK model for oral mefloquine in Burmese adults with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria treated with the standard 3-day artesunate-mefloquine combination (Hoglund 2018). One-transit-compartment absorption with ka = ktr feeds a two-compartment disposition model. No covariates were retained in the final model: body-weight allometric scaling (fixed exponents 0.75 / 1.0), sex, admission parasitaemia, and validated molecular markers of mefloquine and artemisinin resistance (pfmdr1, pfcrt, atp6, pfk13) were tested in a step-wise covariate search but did not significantly improve the model. Relative bioavailability F is implicitly 1 (the paper tested adding an estimated F with IIV and excluded it from the final model). NONMEM additive residual error on the log-transformed observation is encoded here as a proportional residual in the linear concentration space.
Mefloquine (Simpson 2013) In vitro (P. falciparum). Sigmoid Emax inhibition model of mefloquine effect on hypoxanthine uptake by clinical Plasmodium falciparum isolates from the Thai-Myanmar border (Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, 1993-2005), with pfmdr1 genotype covariate effects on EC50. The ‘subject’ in the NLME framework is a parasite isolate (n=460 isolates with mefloquine data). STIM_MEFLOQUINE_NM is the per-well drug concentration in the in vitro hypoxanthine-uptake-inhibition assay; the model has no PK and no time evolution. E0 and Emax are fixed per Simpson 2013 Table 3 footnote.
Mepolizumab (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for mepolizumab in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Meropenem (Bergen 2017) In vitro (hollow-fiber infection model). Mechanism-based PK/PD (life-cycle growth) model of meropenem bacterial killing and resistance against Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1280 (meropenem MIC 0.25 mg/L) across simulated critically ill patient renal-function profiles (augmented renal clearance, normal, and impaired). The bacterial population is split into three pre-existing subpopulations of decreasing meropenem susceptibility (susceptible, intermediate, resistant), each described by two states (state 1 preparing for replication, state 2 immediately before replication; six bacterial compartments total). Meropenem acts via inhibition of successful bacterial replication (a Hill-type Inh_Rep function per subpopulation; no direct killing term). The intermediate and resistant subpopulations have higher IC50_Rep and steeper or shallower Hill coefficients than the susceptible subpopulation; the susceptible subpopulation has Imax_Rep and Hill fixed to 1. Meropenem disposition in the HFIM is a fixed-half-life first-order decline parameterised from the upstream popPK model (Mattioli 2016, reference 20 in the source paper); the default half-life is 1.1 h (normal renal function); 0.6 h (augmented renal clearance) and 4.0 h (impaired renal function) are obtained by overriding thalf_mem at simulation time. No patient covariates and no random effects: this is the typical-value MBM fit (Bergen 2017 Table 3) to the simultaneous P. aeruginosa 1280 HFIM data across the three renal-function scenarios and four dosing regimens (2, 1, or 0.5 g q8h plus 1 g q12h for impaired).
Meropenem (Germovsek 2018) One-compartment plasma + CSF (two-state) IV population PK model for meropenem in neonates and young infants (<=90 days) with late-onset sepsis and/or meningitis (Germovsek 2018; NeoMero-1 and NeoMero-2 studies). Plasma CL and Vc are allometrically scaled to body weight (fixed exponent 0.632 on CL, 1.0 on Vc) with a fixed Rhodin-style postmenstrual-age maturation Hill function on CL and a power covariate of (CREAT_REF / CREAT) on CL; an additional CSF compartment with fixed Vcsf = 0.15 L/70 kg and estimated inter-compartmental clearance CL_CSF carries a logit-scale CSF penetration fraction (typical 8.4 %) modulated by CSF total protein concentration.
Meropenem (Hanberg 2018) Two-compartment IV population PK model for meropenem in critically ill adults receiving venovenous or venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment, with simultaneous fitting of plasma concentrations (central compartment Ac/Vc) and free subcutaneous adipose-tissue (SCT) concentrations sampled by microdialysis (peripheral compartment Ap/Vp scaled by an estimated fraction unbound in tissue f_u,tissue = 0.79). Elimination clearance is a direct linear function of the patient’s estimated creatinine clearance (eCLCr, Cockcroft-Gault, raw mL/min) via CL_i = CLfrac * eCLCr_i with CLfrac = 0.0460 L/h per (mL/min); 9 of 10 patients were also on continuous renal replacement therapy so eCLCr partly reflects the CRRT contribution (Hanberg 2018).
Meropenem (Shekar 2014) Two-compartment IV population PK model for meropenem in critically ill adult patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and historical critically ill control patients with sepsis, with a piecewise covariate on clearance that switches between a fixed RRT-cohort CL and a Cockcroft-Gault-CrCL-driven non-RRT CL (Shekar 2014)
Meropenem ciprofloxacin (Rees 2018) In vitro (hollow-fiber infection model). Mechanism-based PK/PD (life-cycle growth) model of bacterial killing and resistance for meropenem plus ciprofloxacin against hypermutable Pseudomonas aeruginosa CW44, with three pre-existing subpopulations and subpopulation plus mechanistic synergy
Metformin (Choi 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for oral metformin in 36 healthy adult Korean men from a phase I single-dose 2-way crossover bioequivalence study comparing a single-agent metformin tablet against a metformin-containing fixed-dose combination (FDC) tablet (Choi 2018). The absorption process is parallel mixed-input: fraction F1 of the dose is absorbed first-order from the depot compartment (rate Ka), and fraction (1-F1) is absorbed zero-order directly into the central compartment over duration D2 with lag time ALAG2. Formulation enters as a binary covariate (FORM_FDC) with multiplicative power-style effects on Ka (Ka_FDC = 0.83 * Ka_single-agent) and on relative bioavailability F (F_FDC = 0.94 * F_single-agent = 0.94). IIV on CL/F, Vc/F (correlated, rho 0.225), and Ka; proportional residual error only.
Metformin (vanRongen 2018) One-compartment population PK model for oral metformin in 22 overweight and obese Caucasian adolescents (van Rongen 2018). First-order absorption into a single central compartment with apparent oral clearance (CL/F) and apparent oral volume of distribution (V/F). Total body weight (TBW) enters linearly on CL/F with reference 75.8 kg (study median): CL/F = 1.17 * (1 + 0.0138 * (TBW - 75.8)) L/min. Proportional residual error; IIV on CL/F, V/F, and ka.
Methotrexate (Ruhs 2012) PK/PD model of methotrexate (MTX) and homocysteine (HCY) after high-dose MTX treatment in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ruhs 2012). Two-compartment IV PK for MTX with linear BSA scaling on CL, V1, Q, V2 (theta values reported per m^2 BSA in the paper) and a power effect of the age- and gender-adjusted serum creatinine ratio (CREAT_REF / CREAT) on CL (Eq. 1); coupled to a single-compartment indirect response model for HCY where MTX inhibits the HCY elimination rate kout via an inverse Emax function (Emax fixed to 1) and the typical HCY baseline depends linearly on age. IOV reported in the paper on CL (17.15% CV) and HCYBL (23.83% CV) across the window and four consolidation HDMTX administrations is not encoded in the model file (only between-subject IIV is carried).
Methotrexate (Taylor 2020) Three-compartment population PK model for intravenous high-dose methotrexate (5 or 8 g/m^2 over 24 h IV infusion) in pediatric NOPHO ALL2000 / ALL2008 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia; BSA-normalized PK parameters (reference 1.73 m^2) and a time-varying serum creatinine power effect on clearance (reference 29 umol/L) implemented as the default population PK model behind the MTXPK.org clinical decision support tool (Taylor 2020)
Methylphenidate (Teuscher 2015) Pediatric population PK model for methylphenidate hydrochloride extended-release multilayer beads (MPH-MLR, Aptensio XR) after a single oral dose, parameterized as a two-input, one-compartment, first-order-elimination structure: a fast-release (IR) depot delivers a fraction F1 of dose with first-order absorption rate Ka1, a slow-release (ER) depot delivers the remaining 1 - F1 with first-order rate Ka2 after an absorption lag tlag, and the central compartment eliminates linearly via clearance CL and apparent volume V. Body weight enters CL via a power covariate CL = CL_TV * WT^theta (Eq 4). Between-individual variability is retained on CL and V; IIV on Ka1, Ka2, F1, and tlag was not in the final pediatric fit (Table 1). The companion exposure-response analysis maps simulated Cmax to change-from-baseline ADHD-RS-IV total score via the Emax model E = Emax * Cmax / (EC50 + Cmax) with Emax = -34.96 and EC50 = 5.77 ng/mL (Table 2); the PD step lives outside the ODE system because the published mapping uses a per-period Cmax, not the instantaneous central concentration. The vignette reproduces the full PK simulation, NCA, and Cmax-to-ADHD-RS-IV exposure-response.
Metoprolol (Eugene 2016) One-compartment population PK model for oral metoprolol tartrate with first-order absorption and lag time in elderly inpatients with multiple comorbidities; sex as the only covariate on apparent clearance (Eugene 2016).
Metronidazole (CohenWolkowiez 2012) One-compartment IV population PK model for metronidazole in preterm infants (Cohen-Wolkowiez 2012). Clearance scales linearly with body weight (reference 1.5 kg) and as a power function of postmenstrual age (reference 32 weeks); central volume scales linearly with body weight.
MHD rat (Clinckers 2008) Preclinical (rat). Population PK model for 10,11-dihydro-10-hydroxy- carbamazepine (MHD), the active metabolite of oxcarbazepine, in male Wistar rat plasma and hippocampal extracellular fluid (Clinckers 2008). One-compartment central disposition (V2) with combined zero-order (fraction F1 of dose over duration D2) and lagged first-order (1 - F1, ka with lag ALAG1) absorption after intraperitoneal bolus, coupled to a biophase / effect compartment (V3) reached via inter-compartmental rate constants k23 and k32. Acute focal pilocarpine-induced seizure activity and local intrahippocampal verapamil (efflux-transporter blockade) each shrink the biophase volume (V3a -> V3b under seizure; V3a -> V3c under verapamil); plasma kinetics are unaffected.
MI 219 (Zou 2012) Predicted-human two-compartment IV PK model for MI-219 (a small-molecule HDM2/p53 inhibitor) in adults, with parameters projected from NONMEM-based interspecies allometric scaling of single-dose IV plasma profiles in rats (5 mg/kg), beagle dogs (2 mg/kg), and cynomolgus monkeys (10 mg/kg). Linear elimination from the central compartment; mouse data were excluded from the joint NONMEM fit because the mouse profile was not superimposable on the other species under Wajima / Dedrick normalisation. The model file encodes the predicted human typical values at a 70 kg reference body weight (Zou 2012 Table 5, NONMEM column).
Micafungin (Martial 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for IV micafungin in adult intensive-care-unit patients with suspected or proven fungal infection (Martial 2017). Body-weight allometric scaling (fixed exponents 0.75 on CL and Q, 1 on V1 and V2; 70 kg reference), log-normal IIV on CL and V1 (encoded as diagonal; the source reports a qualitative non-zero correlation but no numerical covariance), and a proportional residual error. No covariates were retained in the final model (only weight via the a-priori allometric structure).
Midazolam (Brill 2014) Three-compartment population PK model for midazolam with two equalized peripheral volumes and a three-transit-compartment first-order oral absorption chain (Ka = Ktr), supporting oral and intravenous dosing, in 20 morbidly obese patients (mean total body weight 144 kg, range 112-186; mean BMI 47, range 40-68) and 12 non-obese healthy volunteers (mean total body weight 76 kg, mean BMI 22). Total body weight enters as a linear covariate on central volume (reference 127 kg) and a power covariate on peripheral volume (reference 127 kg); morbid-obesity status (BMI > 40) shifts oral bioavailability up and the transit absorption rate down.
Midazolam (Janssen 2017) One-compartment population PK model for intravenous midazolam used as a CYP3A metabolic-phenotyping probe in 10 men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (Janssen 2017 Table 2A). Each patient received a single 2.5 mg IV midazolam bolus 1-7 days before their scheduled cabazitaxel infusion; the empirical Bayes estimates of individual midazolam clearance from this fit are then used as covariate input to the companion Janssen 2017 cabazitaxel model (see modellib(‘Janssen_2017_cabazitaxel’)).
Midazolam (vanRongen 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for midazolam in 19 obese adolescents (12-18.9 years, total body weight 62-149.8 kg, BMI 24.8-55 kg/m^2) and 20 morbidly obese adults (26-57 years, total body weight 112.3-186.3 kg, BMI 39.9-67.6 kg/m^2), with a five-transit-compartment first-order oral absorption chain (Ka = Ktr) supporting oral and intravenous dosing (van Rongen 2017 Final model, Table 2). Study population (adolescent vs morbidly obese adult) separates clearance into two cohort-specific values (CL_104.7 kg in adolescents with an estimated TBW power on top, CL fixed-across-WT in morbidly obese adults). The same V_141.8 kg central value of the peripheral compartment is shared between cohorts but TBW power scaling applies only to morbidly obese adults. Central volume, inter-compartmental clearance Q, transit-absorption rate Ka = Ktr, and oral bioavailability F are shared across both cohorts. Oral data were collected only in morbidly obese adults; adolescents received only IV bolus doses.
Midazolam pbpk (Brussee 2018) PBPK (semi-physiological; well-stirred liver + Qgut gut wall) population PK model for midazolam and its primary metabolite 1-OH-midazolam in 37 preterm neonates (gestational age 26-34 weeks, body weight 0.770-2.030 kg at the time of dosing). Distinguishes first-pass CYP3A-mediated metabolism in the gut wall (Qgut model) and liver (well-stirred model) from systemic hepatic elimination of the metabolite. Tissue volumes (V_h, V_pv, V_gw) and hepatic blood flow Q_h are allometrically scaled from a term-neonate reference (Bjorkman 2005) by body weight with fixed exponents (1 for volumes, 0.75 for flow); intestinal length scales as 2.736 * WT[g]^0.512 cm (Struijs 2009) so the Qgut hybrid flow varies with body size. Supports oral administration (depot, full first-pass through gut wall and liver) and IV (dose directly to central; no first-pass).
Miltefosine (Dorlo 2008) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption and linear elimination for miltefosine in 31 Dutch military personnel with Old World (Leishmania major) cutaneous leishmaniasis contracted in Afghanistan (Dorlo 2008), treated with oral miltefosine 50 mg three times daily (150 mg/day, median 1.76 mg/kg/day) for 28 days with post-treatment follow-up to a maximum of 202 days. CL/F, Vc/F, Q/F, and Vp/F are estimated apparent parameters; relative bioavailability F is unidentifiable from oral-only data and is structurally fixed at 1. Inter-individual variability is log-normal on ka, CL/F, and Vc/F (diagonal in this implementation; see Assumptions in the vignette for the unreported CL/Vc correlation noted by the authors). IIV on Q/F and Vp/F was not estimable from the data. Residual error is proportional (31.5% CV). No covariate effects were retained in the final model. This is the structural model later re-used as the base PK structure in Dorlo 2017 visceral-leishmaniasis miltefosine work.
Miltefosine (Dorlo 2017) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption for miltefosine in 95 Eastern African adults and children (>=7 years) with visceral leishmaniasis (Dorlo 2017), enrolled across three treatment centres in Kenya and Sudan and randomised to either a 28-day monotherapy regimen of oral miltefosine 2.5 mg/kg/day or a 10-day oral miltefosine 2.5 mg/kg/day arm combined with a single 10 mg/kg liposomal amphotericin B IV dose on day 1. CL/F, Q/F, Vc/F, and Vp/F are allometrically scaled on fat-free mass (exponents 0.75 and 1.0; reference FFM 53 kg). Relative bioavailability is structurally fixed at 100% from the end of the initial reduced absorption window onwards, and reduced by a typical 74.3% during the window itself (0 < t <= 7 days for monotherapy, 0 < t <= 1 day for the combination arm); the duration is regimen-dependent via the MIL_REGIMEN indicator. The combined-error residual model is proportional (31.0%) with additive component fixed at 0.001 ug/mL.
Miridesap (Sahota 2015) Target-mediated drug disposition (TMDD) PK/PD model for CPHPC (miridesap, GSK2315698, Ro 63-8695) and serum amyloid P (SAP) in healthy volunteers (study CPH113776) and patients with systemic amyloidosis (study CPH114527). Two-compartment PK for CPHPC (IV plus first-order subcutaneous depot); two-compartment turnover model for SAP with first-order endogenous production and elimination; bimolecular CPHPC + free SAP -> complex binding treated as effectively irreversible (KOFF set to zero because the complex internalisation rate is much faster than the dissociation rate). Final-model covariates (Sahota 2015 Eq. 1 and Eq. 2): creatinine clearance modifies CPHPC clearance below an 80 mL/min threshold; hepatic amyloid involvement multiplies SAP intercompartmental clearance Q4; whole-body amyloid load (categorical 0-3) multiplies SAP peripheral volume V4 in two cumulative steps; biological sex multiplies baseline plasma SAP.
Mirikizumab (Chua 2025) Two-compartment population PK model for mirikizumab (anti-IL-23p19 IgG4 mAb) in patients with moderately-to-severely active Crohn’s disease (Chua 2025 VIVID-1 phase 3)
Mitoxantrone human pbpk (An 2012) Human-scaled simulation. Semi-mechanistic whole-body PBPK model 3 for mitoxantrone (Novantrone) in adult cancer patients after a single 12 mg/m^2 IV bolus, projected forward from the mouse fit in An_2012_mitoxantrone_mouse_pbpk (An and Morris 2012, AAPS J). Same topology as the mouse model: seven physiological tissue compartments (central plasma plus six perfusion-limited well-stirred organs - lung, heart, spleen, liver, kidney, brain) and a permeability-limited remainder compartment lumping muscle, fat, bone, and skin and resolving into an interstitial (is_remainder) and an intracellular (int_remainder) subspace coupled by a permeability-surface area product. Plasma unbound fraction fu = 0.2, DNA dissociation constant K_DNA = 0.0013 uM, protein-binding dissociation constant K_macro = 1.44 uM, and per-organ T_macro are carried over from the mouse fit as cross-mammalian constants (paper Methods). Per-organ T_DNA values are replaced with the human DNA-content literature values reported in Table III: lung and spleen DNA use the literature rapidly- perfused-organ value (15 uM); brain T_DNA is the mouse-derived value (0.10 uM); the remainder T_DNA uses the literature slowly-perfused- organ value (4.5 uM). The remainder ISF/intracellular split is assumed to follow the mouse proportion 33/67 (Table I) applied to the human remainder volume V_other = 62 L. Hepatic and renal intrinsic clearances are derived from clinical CL_H = 19 L/h/m^2 and CL_R = 2.7 L/h/m^2 (Ehninger 1990 ref 6) via the well-stirred rearrangement Clint = Q_H * CL / (fu * Q_H - fu * CL) yielding Clint_H = 250 L/h and Clint_R = 27 L/h. PS_remainder is allometrically scaled from the mouse value PS = 1.44 mL/min via PS = A * M^0.75 (Kawai 1998 ref 28) giving PS = 31.1 L/h. The model is a typical-value forward simulation; there is no IIV and no residual error from the paper.
Mitoxantrone mouse pbpk (An 2012) Preclinical (mouse). Semi-mechanistic whole-body PBPK model 3 for mitoxantrone (Novantrone) in male ND4 Swiss Webster mice (24-32 g) after a single 5 mg/kg intravenous bolus (penile vein) (An and Morris 2012, AAPS J). Seven physiological tissue compartments: central plasma plus six perfusion-limited well-stirred organs (lung, heart, spleen, liver, kidney, brain), with a permeability-limited remainder compartment that lumps muscle, fat, bone, intestine, and skin and resolves into an interstitial (is_remainder) and an intracellular (int_remainder) subspace coupled by a permeability- surface area product PS. Hepatic and renal elimination act on the unbound cellular concentration of liver and kidney via well-stirred intrinsic clearances Clint_H and Clint_R. Saturable tissue binding to DNA (capacity T_DNA, affinity K_DNA) and macromolecular protein (capacity T_macro, affinity K_macro) is encoded as a Cp-dependent effective tissue:plasma partition coefficient Kp_eff(Cp) that varies instantaneously with plasma concentration (Eqs. 9-11 of the paper). Plasma unbound fraction is fixed to 0.2; tissue binding affinities are shared across all organs. The model is intended for typical- value simulation of mouse plasma and tissue concentration-time profiles.
Mizoribine (Honda 2006) One-compartment oral PK model for mizoribine in healthy Caucasian male volunteers (Honda 2006); first-order absorption with a fixed absorption-lag time, apparent volume of distribution V/F linear in body weight, apparent oral clearance CL/F linear in Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance (CLcr), and additive residual error on the serum-concentration scale.
Mogamulizumab (Mukai 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for mogamulizumab in adults with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma or adult T-cell lymphoma (Mukai 2019)
Monalizumab (Hwang 2023) Two-compartment population PK model for monalizumab (anti-CD94/NKG2A IgG4) in patients with advanced solid tumors or squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (Hwang 2023)
Morphine (deHoogd 2017) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for morphine and its two glucuronide metabolites (M3G, M6G) in 20 morbidly obese adults (post-gastric-bypass) and 20 healthy adult volunteers (de Hoogd 2017). Morphine: three-compartment IV model with total body weight (TBW) covariate on the second peripheral volume V5M. Non-glucuronide morphine clearance is structurally fixed at 35% of total morphine CL in a 70-kg healthy adult. M3G and M6G are each one-compartment models fed by formation-delay transit chains (n = 5 for M3G, n = 2 for M6G); VM3G = VM6G is a structural equality. TBW covariates apply to CLF M6G, the M3G transit rate Ktr, M3G elimination CL, and M6G elimination CL, all power-form normalised to a reference of 98.5 kg (population median). Proportional residual error is reported separately for the healthy- volunteer cohort and the morbidly obese cohort, selected via the binary indicator DIS_OBESE_MORBID.
Morphine (Elkomy 2015) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for morphine and its two glucuronide metabolites M3G and M6G in 20 infants and young children (3 days - 5.4 years; 3.1 - 18.5 kg) after congenital heart surgery (Elkomy 2015 AAPS J). Morphine: linear two- compartment IV disposition with allometric body-weight scaling (CL and CLD with exponent 0.75 FIXED; VC and VP with exponent 1.0 FIXED) normalised to a reference of 6 kg (study median). Each metabolite is modeled as a morphine-driven intermediate effect compartment (rate constant Kint chasing morphine plasma concentration via dCint/dt = Kint * (Cc - Cint)) feeding an empirical Emax transduction where metabolite concentration = Mmax * Cint / (Cint50 + Cint). Estimated glomerular filtration rate (Schwartz formula) is a covariate: Kint scales linearly with GFR/70 and Mmax scales as 70/GFR (both exponents FIXED at +/-1 per the paper’s covariate analysis). Between-subject random effects on Kint, Mmax, and Cint50 are SHARED across the M3G and M6G channels (one eta per group; Table II). Doses are administered as nmol of morphine equivalents (one nmol of clinical morphine sulfate yields two nmol of free morphine); concentrations are output in nmol/L (nM) for morphine, M3G, and M6G.
Morphine (Franken 2015) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for morphine and its two glucuronide metabolites (M3G, M6G) in 47 terminally ill adult palliative care patients (Franken 2015). Morphine: two-compartment disposition with three parallel first-order absorption routes (subcutaneous bolus, immediate-release oral liquid, controlled-release oral tablet) using route-specific fixed absorption rate constants; oral bioavailability F is estimated (SC F assumed 1). M3G and M6G are each one-compartment models fed by fixed-fraction transformation of morphine clearance (Fm1 = 0.55 for M3G, Fm2 = 0.10 for M6G, both fixed from literature). Morphine clearance decreases exponentially as time-to-death (TTD, days) approaches zero. Metabolite clearance depends on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, MDRD four-variable formula) and serum albumin via shared power-form covariate exponents. Residual variability was reported as additive error on the log-transformed observation (LTBS).
Morphine (Pierre 2017) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for IV morphine and its primary glucuronide metabolite morphine-3-glucuronide (M3G) in 14 healthy adults and 7 patients with biopsy-confirmed nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) following a single 5 mg morphine sulfate IV infusion (Pierre 2017). Morphine is described by a three-compartment disposition (central + two peripherals) with parallel renal (CL_M_R) and non-renal (CL_M_NR) clearances; the entire non-renal clearance is assumed to lead to M3G formation via a single liver transit compartment with first-order rate constant k_trans. M3G is described by a one-compartment model with a single total clearance (CL_M3G). Cumulative urinary morphine and M3G amounts are tracked as elimination-amount compartments. Total body weight enters all CL/Q and V parameters a priori with fixed allometric exponents (0.75 and 1, respectively) referenced to 70 kg. The NASH severity score (NASF; combined NAFLD activity score and fibrosis staging, 0-12) is the only additional covariate retained in the final model; it acts on M3G clearance through a linear effect on the natural logarithm of (NASF / 4) for NASF >= 4 and is identically zero for NASF < 4 so that healthy and benign-NAFLD subjects (NASF < 5) recover the typical CL_M3G.
Moxifloxacin (Hong 2015) Sequential population PK + PD (QT-interval) model for single-dose oral moxifloxacin (400 mg or 800 mg, Avelox tablets) in healthy adult Korean male volunteers (Hong 2015): a two-compartment first-order absorption PK model with a lag time and a dose-dependent absorption rate constant (different Ka for 400 mg vs 800 mg), followed by an individually corrected QT-interval PD model that adds two mixed-effect cosine circadian components (24 h and 6 h), a first-order-decaying placebo (water-intake) effect, and an Emax drug effect on QT prolongation.
Moxifloxacin (Landersdorfer 2009) Population PK model for oral moxifloxacin bone penetration (Landersdorfer 2009): two-compartment plasma disposition with first-order absorption from a gut depot, plus two paper-mechanistic bone matrix compartments (cortical and cancellous bone) connected to the central compartment by fixed transfer rate constants. The bone tissue:serum equilibrium concentration ratio is captured by the multiplicative scale terms fcortical and fcancellous on the cortical and cancellous bone observations. Disposition parameters were MAP-Bayesian estimated against Simon 1997 priors; bone-penetration scale terms used noninformative priors. Single 400 mg oral dose in 24 adults undergoing total hip replacement; serum and femoral bone samples (cortical + cancellous, head + neck) collected 2 to 7 hours post-dose.
Moxifloxacin (Nielsen 2011) In vitro (Streptococcus pyogenes M12 NCTC P1800). Semimechanistic PKPD model of moxifloxacin time-kill kinetics; two-stage bacterial life-cycle (proliferating drug-sensitive S and non-growing drug-insensitive R) with sigmoidal Emax killing of S via an effect compartment; first-order drug elimination (ke set per in vitro kinetic-system flow rate); drug-specific degradation kdeg fixed at zero. Parameter values are from the combined static and dynamic estimation in Table 3.
MRNA3927 (Attarwala 2023) Preclinical (mouse, rat, cynomolgus monkey; allometrically scalable to humans). Translational semi-mechanistic PK and PK/PD model for mRNA-3927, an LNP-encapsulated dual mRNA encoding propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) subunits PCCA and PCCB. PK: 3-compartment plasma1-tissue-plasma2 redistribution (V shared between the two plasma compartments; V and V2 fixed at the mouse reference and scaled allometrically) with body-weight allometric scaling of clearances (mouse reference 0.025 kg; estimated exponents cla on CL12/CL32 and clb on CL23/CL20). PD: liver PCC protein 2-compartment indirect-response model driven by an effect compartment linked to plasma mRNA, with synthesis linear in effect-compartment mRNA concentration and first-order degradation. Three downstream biomarkers (2-methylcitrate, 3-hydroxypropionate, C3/C2 carnitine ratio) follow direct sigmoidal Imax suppression by liver PCC protein with Imax fixed at 0.999.
Mu receptor binding (Mann 2022) QSP. Competitive mu-opioid receptor binding kinetics layer of the Mann 2022 translational opioid-overdose model. Tracks the fraction of receptors bound by an opioid agonist (RL_op) and by an opioid antagonist (RL_antag) under simultaneous exposure to both ligands. All 12 ligands characterised by Mann 2022 Supplement 1 Table S2 are carried inline as fixed parameters (Kon in pM^-n s^-1, Koff in s^-1, slope n unitless); the OPIOID_ID and ANTAGONIST_ID integer covariates select which ligand occupies each binding slot at simulation time, so the same compiled model can simulate any agonist-antagonist pair from the Table-S2 panel without re- instantiation. Ligand effect-site concentrations enter the model as the time-varying covariate columns L_OPIOID_pM and L_ANTAGONIST_pM, typically piped from the PK layer in a composed chain (e.g., Mann_2022_fentanyl_iv or Mann_2022_carfentanil_iv for the opioid slot; Laffont_2024_naloxone or Laffont_2024_nalmefene for the antagonist slot).
Mycophenolic acid (deWinter 2009) Semi-mechanistic competitive-protein-binding population PK model for mycophenolic acid (MPA, the active moiety of mycophenolate mofetil MMF) and its glucuronide metabolite MPAG in adult renal transplant recipients (de Winter 2009). Free MPA (fMPA) follows a two-compartment disposition with first-order oral absorption (lag-time TLAG; fixed ka = 4.00 1/h); free MPAG (fMPAG) follows a one-compartment disposition. Both species bind competitively to a saturable plasma protein binding pool with capacity BMAX and species-specific association / dissociation rate constants k24 / k42 (MPA) and k56 / k65 (MPAG). The fMPAG-to-gallbladder transport rate constant k57 drives enterohepatic recirculation: fMPAG accumulates in a gallbladder compartment and empties into the fMPA central compartment during a fixed window (TGB to TGB+DGB post-dose) at rate constant k72, completing the EHC loop. Three covariates: a power effect of creatinine clearance (CRCL) on CL fMPAG (exponent 1.36; CRCL reference 45 mL/min); a power effect of plasma albumin (ALB) on BMAX (exponent 1.39; ALB reference 0.5 mmol/L); and a multiplicative power-form effect of cyclosporine cotreatment (CONMED_CSA) on k57 (multiplier 0.002, reducing EHC by ~99.8% under cyclosporine vs the tacrolimus reference). Total MPA (tMPA) and total MPAG (tMPAG) plasma concentrations are reported as the sum of the unbound and bound concentrations of each species. Dosing is BID by default (tau = 12 h hardcoded in model() for the gallbladder-emptying window). Concentrations are in molar units (umol/L) per the source paper’s choice to analyse MMF / MPA / MPAG on a molar basis (MMF MW 433.5; MPA MW 320.3; MPAG MW 496.5).
Nab paclitaxel (Chen 2014) Three-compartment population PK with saturable (Michaelis-Menten) distribution between the central and first peripheral compartments and saturable elimination from the central compartment, coupled with a Friberg-style 5-compartment semi-mechanistic PD model for paclitaxel-induced neutropenia, fit to 150 adult patients with advanced solid tumors who received nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) 80-375 mg/m^2 as a 30-minute IV infusion (Chen 2014). The first peripheral compartment exchanges with central via the saturable Vmtr / Kmtr process; the second peripheral compartment exchanges via linear intercompartmental clearance Q2. Baseline albumin lowers the maximal elimination rate VMEL via a power-form covariate; advanced age (>= 65 years) potentiates the linear Slope of paclitaxel-driven inhibition of the proliferating neutrophil precursor pool, and baseline albumin also modifies the baseline ANC via a power-form covariate. PK observation is plasma paclitaxel concentration (ug/L = ng/mL); PD observation is absolute neutrophil count (10^9 cells/L).
Nalmefene (Kyhl 2016) Population PK model for nalmefene in healthy volunteers (Kyhl 2016): two-compartment model with first-order absorption after oral dosing, separate absorption rates for tablet and solution formulations, and a link to mu-opioid receptor occupancy.
Nalmefene (Laffont 2024) Population PK model for intranasal (IN) nalmefene HCl in healthy adult volunteers (Laffont 2024): two-compartment model with linear elimination, parallel zero-order plus lagged first-order absorption, and allometric body-weight scaling on apparent clearance.
Naloxone (Laffont 2024) Population PK model for intranasal (IN) naloxone HCl in healthy adult volunteers (Laffont 2024): two-compartment model with linear elimination and parallel zero-order plus lagged first-order absorption; Q/F and Vp/F fixed to literature values from Yassen 2007.
Naltrexone bupropion (Sharma 2018) Dose- and time-dependent population pharmacodynamic (DTPD) body-weight model for the naltrexone/bupropion fixed-dose combination (Contrave) in obese and overweight adults under lifestyle intervention, based on 4591 subjects pooled from six Contrave clinical trials (placebo and active-treatment arms). Indirect-response body-weight model with linear NHANES-derived disease progression, inverse-Bateman lifestyle-intervention stimulation of body-weight loss (kout), and a combined Emax dose- and time-dependent inhibitory drug effect; diabetes (T2DM) and race covariates on key parameters. Does not include the linked Markov dropout layer (Tr10, Tr01, Tr12, Tr02) of Table 3, and does not include the PPPD concentration-driven variant (whose underlying naltrexone/bupropion PopPK model is an unpublished internal Takeda report).
Naproxen mbma (Boucher 2018) MBMA. Model-based meta-analysis longitudinal time-course Emax model for the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) pain score (0-10 scale) in adults with osteoarthritis, fitted to study-arm-mean data from 18 randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials of naproxen vs placebo (12 flare designs, 6 non-flare). The WOMAC pain response over time follows a three-parameter Emax model in time: pain = E0 + Emax * time / (ET50 + time), where ET50 is the time to half-maximal effect. Flare design shifts both baseline E0 and Emax; naproxen treatment shifts Emax and shortens ET50 (faster onset: ET50 0.21 week vs placebo 0.69 week). Between-study variability is carried as study-arm-level random effects on E0 (SD 0.62) and Emax (SD 0.74); the residual describes study-arm-mean variability weighted by each arm’s observed standard error (sigma fixed to 1). Suitable simulation scope is study-arm-mean WOMAC pain time-course, NOT individual-patient pain scores. Parameter values are the NONMEM column of Table 2 (the same model was fit in NONMEM, BUGS, and R with closely agreeing estimates).
Necitumumab (Long 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for necitumumab in cancer patients (Long 2017), with IV infusion input and parallel linear plus Michaelis-Menten (target-mediated) elimination from the central compartment and allometric weight scaling on CL, Q, V1, and V2.
Nevirapine (Bienczak 2016) One-compartment population PK model for oral nevirapine in African children (Bienczak 2016) with three-transit-compartment absorption, semi-mechanistic well-stirred hepatic extraction (Gordi-style) splitting oral bioavailability into a pre-hepatic component FpreH (age-driven exponential maturation toward an older-child reference fixed to 1) and a hepatic component FH derived algebraically from intrinsic clearance CLint via FH = QH / (QH + fu * CLint), allometric scaling of CLint and Vc to median weight 14.5 kg and of hepatic plasma flow QH to a 70 kg reference, CYP2B6 516G>T | 983T>C metabolizer-status (EM / IM / SM / USM) effects on CLint, and a 29% diurnal-variation cosine on CLint with zenith at noon.
Nevirapine (Schipani 2011) One-compartment population PK model for oral nevirapine in HIV-infected adults (Schipani 2011), with CYP2B6 516G>T (rs3745274) and 983T>C (rs28399499) genotype and body-weight covariate effects on CL/F. Covariate effects are additive on linear-scale CL/F per the published equation.
NicotinicAcid rat (Ahlstrom 2010) Preclinical (rat). PK/PD feedback model for nicotinic acid (NiAc) and non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) in male Sprague-Dawley rats following IV infusions. NiAc disposition is a two-compartment model with two parallel capacity-limited (Michaelis-Menten) elimination processes (likely glycine conjugation and amidation) plus endogenous synthesis. NEFA turnover is described by an inhibitory drug-mechanism function (Hill-Imax, with Imax fixed at 1) acting on the formation of NEFA, coupled to a moderator feedback chain of 8 transit compartments (precursor1..precursor8): the first compartment inhibits NEFA formation amplified by exponent p and the last compartment stimulates NEFA loss. A NiAc-independent capillary release rate kcap sets the lower physiological limit of NEFA in plasma. All structural parameters are body-weight-normalized (per kg). Parameter values from Ahlstrom 2010 Tables 1 (NiAc PK) and 2 (NEFA PD).
Nimotuzumab (Castro-Surez 2020) Semi-mechanistic two-compartment QSS TMDD population PK model for nimotuzumab (anti-EGFR humanized IgG1) in adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (Castro-Suarez 2020); EGFR binding represented in both central (Rtot) and peripheral (Rtotp) compartments under quasi-steady-state, plus a turnover mediator that stimulates non-specific clearance via a sigmoid Emax of free central nimotuzumab.
Nipocalimab (Valenzuela 2025) Integrated PK/RO/IgG/MG-ADL QSS TMDD model for nipocalimab in healthy adults and generalized myasthenia gravis (Valenzuela 2025)
Nirsevimab (Clegg 2024) Two-compartment population PK model for nirsevimab in preterm and term infants (Clegg 2024)
Nisin amikacin (Landersdorfer 2013) In vitro (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300). Mechanism-based pharmacodynamic model for nisin plus amikacin in a 48-h static-concentration time-kill assay (S-ADAPT and NONMEM analyses; subpopulation synergy concept). Six pre-existing bacterial populations crossing nisin (susceptible Nis-S, intermediate Nis-I, resistant Nis-R) with amikacin (susceptible Ami-S, resistant Ami-R) susceptibility, each following a Bulitta two-state life-cycle growth model (state 1 -> state 2 -> 2state 1 with replication rate k21 fixed). Nisin kills with a second-order function (k2Cnis) and amikacin with a saturating Hill function; a saturating carrying-capacity replication factor (REP = 2*CFUmax/(CFUmax + CFUall)) caps the population. Nisin- and amikacin-cross-resistant populations carry reduced biofitness (multiplicative growth-rate factor fk12). Nisin and amikacin concentrations are external time-varying inputs (covariates Cnis and Cami); the model contains no human PK component.
Nisin linezolid (Landersdorfer 2013) In vitro (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300). Mechanism-based pharmacodynamic model for nisin plus linezolid in a 48-h static-concentration time-kill assay (S-ADAPT and NONMEM analyses; subpopulation synergy concept). Three pre-existing bacterial populations (Nis-S/Lin-S, Nis-I/Lin-S, Nis-R/Lin-I), each following a Bulitta two-state life-cycle growth model. Nisin kills with a second-order function (k2Cnis); linezolid inhibits protein synthesis (turnover of a protein pool P), which (i) raises Inh_Rep = 1 - P and therefore reduces successful replication for the Lin-S populations and (ii) inhibits the slow state 1 -> state 2 growth-rate transition via a steep Hill function (Inh_k12) in all three populations. The Nis-R/Lin-I population has no Inh_Rep effect (only Inh_k12). A saturating carrying-capacity replication factor (REP = 2CFUmax/(CFUmax + CFUall)) caps the population. Nisin and linezolid concentrations are external time-varying inputs (covariates Cnis and Clin); the model contains no human PK component.
Nivolumab (Bajaj 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for nivolumab (anti-PD-1 IgG4) with time-varying clearance (sigmoid Emax) in patients with advanced solid tumors (Bajaj 2017)
Nivolumab (Zhang 2019) Two-compartment population PK model with time-varying clearance for intravenous nivolumab (anti-PD-1 IgG4) in adults with advanced solid tumors, alone or in combination with ipilimumab or chemotherapy (Zhang 2019)
Nutlin3a (Zhang 2011) Preclinical (mouse). Whole-body PBPK model for nutlin-3a (MDM2 inhibitor) in adult C57BL/6 mice after intravenous and oral administration (Zhang et al. 2011, DMD). Thirteen physiological tissue compartments (adipose, adrenal gland, bone marrow, brain, intestine + lumen, liver, lung, muscle, retina, spleen, vitreous, residual diffusion-limited tissue + residual vascular space) with arterial and venous blood pools (75/25 split of total blood volume). Perfusion-limited tissues use a partition coefficient K_i; the eye is modelled as retina + vitreous coupled by a permeability-surface-area product PA_VIT; the residual compartment is diffusion-limited (5% vascular space, 95% tissue, coupled by PA_RES). Elimination is combined linear (hepatic, k_e) and saturable Michaelis-Menten (arterial, V_max/K_m). Oral absorption is first-order from an intestinal lumen depot. Plasma protein binding is reported (B_max = 286 uM, K_A = 0.085 1/uM, Langmuir form) but is only used for an unbound-concentration derivation that the paper applies to tissue exposure / IC50 comparisons, not to the elimination ODEs; the ODE system operates on total concentrations. The model is intended for typical-value simulation.
Obinutuzumab (Gibiansky 2014) Two-compartment population PK model of obinutuzumab (GA101, glycoengineered type II anti-CD20 mAb) in adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL); clearance is the sum of a time-independent component CL_inf and a mono-exponentially decaying time-dependent component CL_Texp(-kdestime), with histology (CLL / BCL / DLBCL / MCL), baseline tumor size, body weight, and sex as covariates (Gibiansky 2014).
Ofatumumab (Yu 2022) Population PK / B-cell-count model for subcutaneous ofatumumab in adults with relapsing multiple sclerosis (Yu 2022)
Ofloxacin (Chigutsa 2012) Two-compartment population PK model for oral ofloxacin in South African adults with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) (Chigutsa 2012; n = 65; pooled Cape Town and Durban cohorts). Savic 2007 transit-compartment absorption chain (number of transit compartments NN = 6 estimated). Total apparent oral clearance is an additive sum of two routes: a glomerular-filtration component scaling linearly with creatinine clearance (CrCl computed by a lean-body-weight modification of the Cockcroft-Gault equation; reference 68 mL/min), and an extraglomerular component (active tubular secretion + minor biliary excretion) allometrically scaled to total body weight (exponent 0.75 fixed, reference 70 kg). Central volume is allometrically scaled to lean body mass (exponent 1 fixed, reference 46 kg LBM); peripheral volume to total body weight (exponent 1, reference 70 kg); intercompartmental clearance to total body weight (exponent 0.75, reference 70 kg). Mean transit time is 2.4-fold longer when ofloxacin is administered after a meal (Cape Town cohort, FED = 1) than fasted (Durban cohort, FED = 0). F is fixed at 1; residual error is combined additive (0.6 mg/L) and proportional (9.6%).
Olanzapine rat (Johnson 2011) Preclinical (rat). Mechanism-based hybrid physiology-based population PK-PD model for olanzapine and striatal dopamine D2 receptor occupancy (D2RO) in rats (Johnson 2011). Plasma PK is a 2-compartment model fitted across IP, SC, and IV routes in Wistar / Sprague-Dawley rats (single dose 0.01-40 mg/kg, pooled from 12 studies, n = 283); the absorption rate constant was not estimable, so all routes deposit drug directly into the central compartment, and the intraperitoneal bioavailability FIP is estimated (about 64%) with an 87% CV log-normal IIV. SC and IV bioavailability are fixed at 1. The brain submodel adds a brain-vascular compartment (Vbv, fed by cerebral blood flow CLbv from systemic central) and a brain- extravascular compartment (Vbev, fed across the BBB by an estimated clearance CLbev applied to the unbound concentration on each side via fixed fu_plasma and fu_brain). D2 receptor occupancy in striatum is the reduced model published by the authors (Bmax dropped per their sensitivity analysis): dRO/dt = kon * Cfree_bev * (1 - RO) - koff * RO, with kon = koff/Kd and Cfree_bev = fu_brain * (Cbev in nM), so the binding kinetics are driven by the free brain-extravascular concentration converted to nM via the olanzapine molecular weight (312.43 g/mol). All structural parameters are body-weight-normalised (per kg).
Olaratumab (Mo 2018) Two-compartment population PK model with linear clearance for olaratumab in patients with advanced or metastatic cancer (Mo 2018)
Olokizumab (Kretsos 2014) Two-compartment population PK with linear elimination and SC first-order absorption (depot, central, peripheral1) plus effect-compartment fractional sigmoid Imax PD model for C-reactive protein (CRP) suppression in mild-to-moderate rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving single-dose IV or SC olokizumab (anti-IL-6 monoclonal antibody, IgG4, CDP6038). Final-analysis estimates from Kretsos et al. 2014 Table 1 (Final column), pooling first-in-human (healthy volunteers, Hickling 2011) and first-in-patient (Cohorts 1+2, n=27 active-treatment subjects) data. The PK observation model adds a per-subject endogenous anti-IL-6 baseline (‘endo’) as an additive offset on the observed OKZ concentration. Body weight was reported as a significant covariate on CL and central volume (paper Discussion) but its functional form / exponents were not reported in main text or supplement; the body-weight covariate effect is omitted here – see vignette Assumptions.
Olprinone (Kunisawa 2014) Two-compartment intravenous population PK model for olprinone (a phosphodiesterase III inhibitor) in healthy adult Japanese male volunteers with body-weight normalization on CL, Vc, Q and Vp (Kunisawa 2014)
Omalizumab (Hayashi 2007) Mechanism-based binding population PK/PD model for omalizumab and IgE in Japanese atopic-asthma patients (Hayashi 2007). Three serum entities (free omalizumab, free IgE, and the omalizumab-IgE complex) each carry their own clearance and volume of distribution and are coupled through instantaneous-equilibrium binding (law of mass action) with a concentration-dependent dissociation constant. Body weight modifies omalizumab CL and Vd; baseline IgE modifies IgE CL and IgE production rate. Subcutaneous absorption is first-order. Disposition parameters are reported as apparent (divided by SC bioavailability f). Three observed quantities: total omalizumab (ug/mL), total IgE (ng/mL), and free IgE (ng/mL).
Omalizumab (Lowe 2009) Mechanism-based binding population PK/PD model for omalizumab and free / total IgE in 1928 patients (1781 with severe persistent allergic asthma across four Phase III studies plus 152 healthy atopic volunteers in a single-dose bioequivalence study; Lowe 2009). Three serum entities (free omalizumab, free IgE, and the omalizumab-IgE complex) each carry their own clearance and apparent volume of distribution and are coupled through instantaneous-equilibrium binding (law of mass action) with a baseline-IgE-dependent dissociation constant that further varies with the instantaneous total-omalizumab-to-total-IgE molar ratio. Body weight modifies all clearances, all volumes, and the IgE production rate via allometric power covariates centred at 70 kg; baseline IgE modifies CL of free IgE, IgE production rate, and Kd via power covariates centred at 365 ng/mL. Subcutaneous absorption is first-order. Disposition parameters are reported as apparent (divided by SC bioavailability f). Extends Hayashi 2007 (modellib(‘Hayashi_2007_omalizumab’)) with (i) IIV on Kd, (ii) baseline IgE as a covariate on Kd, and (iii) bodyweight covariates on the IgE production and clearance parameters. Three observed quantities: total omalizumab, total IgE, and free IgE (all in ng/mL).
Omeprazole (Zhao 2018) Population PK-pharmacogenetic model for oral omeprazole and its two metabolites 5-hydroxy-omeprazole and omeprazole sulfone in Caucasian neonates and young infants (Zhao 2018). One-compartment parent disposition with first-order absorption (Ka modulated by ABCB1 C3435T genotype) is followed by parallel formation into two one-compartment metabolites with apparent volume V_M/F fixed to 1 L; the omeprazole-to-5-hydroxy-omeprazole formation clearance (CLOMZ-M1) is modulated by CYP2C19 metabolizer phenotype (poor / intermediate / extensive-or-ultrarapid) and a postnatal-age power function, while the omeprazole-to-omeprazole-sulfone formation clearance (CLOMZ-M2) and the metabolite apparent eliminations carry no covariates. Linear omeprazole elimination was estimated as negligible (< 0.0001 L/h) and is therefore not included in the final structural model.
Ondansetron (deAlwis 1998) Two-compartment population PK model with zero-order intravenous-infusion input for ondansetron in pooled paediatric, young-adult, elderly, and aged subjects (de Alwis 1998). The paper uses an empirical additive linear-regression covariate model in the 1990s NONMEM tradition (Maitre 1991 three-step approach): clearance CL and inter-compartmental clearance CLd are sex-stratified with separate male and female intercepts and slopes; the central volume V1 has a body-weight slope only; the steady-state volume Vss has body-weight and age slopes; the peripheral volume Vp is derived as Vss - V1. Inter-individual variability is diagonal log-normal on CL, V1, Vss, and CLd. Proportional residual error is stratified across five paper-defined study sub-populations (young healthy volunteers 18-41 y, elderly healthy volunteers 61-75 y, aged healthy volunteers >= 75 y, paediatric cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, paediatric patients receiving general anaesthesia), switched at runtime via the canonical AGE / DIS_HEALTHY / DIS_CANCER_PED covariates.
Ontamalimab (Wang 2020) Two-compartment population PK model for ontamalimab (SHP647), a fully human IgG2 anti-MAdCAM-1 monoclonal antibody, in adults with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease (Wang 2020), with first-order SC absorption, absorption lag time, parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment, and allometric weight scaling on CL, Vc, Q, Vp, and Vmax.
Ormutivimab (Zhang 2022) Time-dependent population pharmacodynamic emax model for rabies virus neutralizing antibody (RVNA) activity after rabies vaccination in healthy Chinese adults, with a categorical drug-product covariate that contrasts Ormutivimab (rHRIG, a recombinant human anti-rabies IgG1 monoclonal antibody) against plasma-derived human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) (Zhang 2022). Output Cc is neutralizing antibody activity in IU/mL measured by the rapid fluorescent focus inhibition test (RFFIT). The published Y1 two-compartment PK overlay for the passive-antibody component of the combined drug+vaccine groups (E = Y1 + Y2) is NOT included here because the seven structural PK constants (Ka, V1, V2, K10, K12, K21, C0) are not reported anywhere on disk; see the vignette’s Assumptions and deviations section for the omitted-component audit trail.
Oseltamivir (Kamal 2013) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for oral oseltamivir (prodrug, OP) and its active metabolite oseltamivir carboxylate (OC) in 390 subjects aged 1 to 78 years pooled from 13 clinical trials (healthy adults, influenza-inoculated and naturally infected adults, healthy geriatric subjects, renally impaired adults, and healthy and infected pediatric subjects 1 to 18 years). Oseltamivir is described by a two-compartment model with first-order absorption and first-order conversion to OC (CLp/F treated as the OP-to-OC conversion clearance under the assumption of complete metabolism; <5% of prodrug is excreted unchanged renally). OC is described by a one-compartment model with first-order elimination. All clearance and volume terms are apparent (conditioned on oral bioavailability F; OC terms additionally on the fraction metabolized fm, assumed 1). Covariates: body weight as a power function on OP CLp/F, OC CLm/F, and OC Vcm/F (allometric-style exponents estimated, not fixed); creatinine clearance (BSA-normalized to 1.73 m^2) as a power function on OC CLm/F; and age as a linear (additive) term on OC Vcm/F. Inter-individual variability is exponential on all seven structural parameters, with two off-diagonal covariances (CLp/F with CLm/F, and Vp/F with Vcm/F). Residual error is proportional only for oseltamivir (40.5% CV reduced CCV model) and combined additive plus proportional for OC (14.0% CV proportional + 17.9 ng/mL additive SD).
Oseltamivir (Kamal 2015) Mechanistic drug-disease (viral-dynamics) model of influenza-virus progression and oseltamivir antiviral effect in adults with experimental and naturally-acquired influenza A (H1N1) virus infection (Kamal 2015). Builds on the Baccam et al. (2006) target-cell-limited viral-dynamics framework: uninfected target respiratory epithelial cells (target_cells) are infected by free virus (virus) at second-order rate beta_inf; infected cells (infected_cells) produce virus at rate p_prod per cell per day and die at rate delta_clr; free virus is cleared at rate c_clr. Oseltamivir inhibits viral production through an inhibitory Hill function acting on log10(p) (Equation 4 of Kamal 2015), parameterised so Emax is the maximum log10-fold reduction of p and ED50 is the dose producing a 2-fold (50%) reduction of p on the linear scale. Dose enters via the per-record DOSE covariate (mg per administered oseltamivir dose; 0 during placebo or outside the treatment window); no oseltamivir pharmacokinetics are modelled. Initial conditions are fixed per Baccam et al. (2006): target_cells(0) = 4e8 epithelial cells (from a 160 cm^2 upper-respiratory-tract surface area and 2e-11 to 4e-11 m^2 per epithelial cell), infected_cells(0) = 0, and virus(0) = 10^0.25 TCID50/mL (the viral-titer lower limit of quantification, used as the inoculation viral titer). The viral load viralLoad (TCID50/mL of nasal wash, canonical PD-output name) is the single observed output with proportional residual error, equivalent to the paper’s log10-transformed additive-error model. The three viral-dynamics compartments are declared paper-specific (see paper_specific_compartments).
Oseltamivir (Standing 2012) Population PK model for oral oseltamivir and its active metabolite oseltamivir carboxylate in preterm and term neonates and infants (Standing 2012). One-compartment parent + one-compartment metabolite with first-order absorption, an empirical transit compartment delaying first-pass metabolite appearance, well-stirred-model hepatic first-pass conversion (FM derived from CLI / liver-blood-flow FQ), and physiologically scaled clearances combining (WT/70)^0.75 allometry with a Rhodin 2009 renal-maturation Hill sigmoid on CLU/CLM and a fitted HCE1 Hill sigmoid (PM50 86.1 wk, Hill 3.17) on intrinsic clearance CLI. Volumes (VD, VDM) and liver blood flow (FQ) fixed from external references.
Osimertinib (Brown 2017) Joint two-compartment population PK model for osimertinib (AZD9291) and its active metabolite AZ5104 in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients pooled with healthy volunteers (Brown 2017). First-order oral absorption into a parent (osimertinib) compartment is followed by a second compartment (AZ5104) in series; the fraction of parent eliminated as AZ5104 is fixed at 0.25 per the publication. Body weight (allometric on parent CL/F and Vc/F and on AZ5104 CL/F), serum albumin (power on parent Vc/F), healthy-volunteer disease state (linear factor on both parent and AZ5104 CL/F), and ethnicity (Chinese, Japanese, Asian-other, and non-Asian non-Caucasian linear factors on AZ5104 CL/F) were retained as significant covariates.
Oxaliplatin (Valenzuela 2011) Population PK/PD model for hyperthermic intraperitoneal oxaliplatin (HIO) and induced neutropenia in 30 adults with peritoneal carcinomatosis after cytoreductive surgery (Valenzuela 2011). PK: peritoneum-as-depot first-order absorption (parameterized in the paper as peritoneum-to-plasma clearance Qa and peritoneum volume Va = vd, with ka = Qa/Va as a secondary parameter) feeding an open two-compartment plasma disposition; bioavailability F was fixed to 1 so Cl/F, Vc/F, Q2/F, Vp/F are apparent. PD: Friberg semi-mechanistic myelosuppression chain (one proliferating compartment plus three transit compartments feeding circulating ANC) with a linear drug effect Edrug = alpha * Cc on the proliferation rate and a (Circ0/Circ)^gamma feedback amplification; MTT was fixed at 118 h and the circulating-cell elimination rate constant kCirc was fixed at 0.07 per h (both from Friberg 2002). No subject covariates were retained in the final model; ten demographic and biochemistry covariates were screened graphically and showed no correlation with PK/PD parameters.
Oxcarbazepine (Rodrigues 2017) Parent-metabolite population PK model for oral oxcarbazepine (OXC) and its active monohydroxy derivative (MHD) in epileptic children aged 2-12 years (Rodrigues 2017). Two-compartment OXC + one-compartment MHD with first-order absorption, complete metabolic conversion (Fm fixed to 1), reversible MHD-to-OXC back-transformation (KBT), empirical allometric weight scaling on CL_OXC/F, Vc_OXC/F, CL_MHD/F, and Vc_MHD/F (no scaling on Q_OXC/F or Vp_OXC/F), and a 29.3% increase in MHD clearance under concomitant enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs.
Ozanezumab (Berges 2015) Two-compartment IV population PK plus effect-compartment sigmoid Emax PKPD model for the proportion of skeletal-muscle membrane Nogo-A co-localized with ozanezumab in adults with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), based on the GlaxoSmithKline first-in-human study NCT00875446 (Berges 2015, Table 2)
Ozoralizumab (Takeuchi 2023) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for subcutaneous ozoralizumab (anti-TNF VHH NANOBODY) in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis (Takeuchi 2023)
Paclitaxel (deJonge 2005) Semi-mechanistic population pharmacokinetic model for orally administered paclitaxel formulated in Cremophor EL (CrEL) and coadministered with cyclosporin A in adult cancer patients. Free paclitaxel in the gastrointestinal tract (depot) absorbs first-order (kabs) into a two-compartment plasma disposition (central + peripheral1; linear elimination CL/F, volume V/F, intercompartmental clearance Q derived from the paper’s k23 = Q/Vc and k32 = Q/Vp). A second GI-tract paclitaxel pool (bound) holds drug encapsulated in CrEL micelles; the depot <-> bound equilibrium is governed by a single rate constant keq whose forward binding rate scales with the GI-tract CrEL amount (cremophor), which itself decays first-order with rate kcrem. Bioavailability F1 is fixed at 1 with log-normal between-subject variability; the paper found no dose-dependence in F. Inter-occasion variability on CL collapses to between-subject variability in this packaged form because the source dataset’s occasion column is not encoded – see vignette Assumptions and deviations.
Palivizumab (Robbie 2012) Two-compartment population PK model for palivizumab (anti-RSV humanized IgG1 kappa mAb) with first-order IM absorption in adults and children (Robbie 2012)
PAmAb (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for PAmAb in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Paracetamol (Anderson 1998) One-compartment oral PK model for paracetamol (acetaminophen) with an explicit cerebrospinal-fluid (CSF) equilibration compartment in nine ventilator-dependent children (5 months to 12 years) with indwelling ventricular drains for raised intracranial pressure (Anderson 1998 NONMEM fit, Table 3). First-order absorption, single nasogastric dose of 40 mg/kg paracetamol elixir, plasma + CSF sampled hourly for 4 h and 2-hourly through 10 h. CSF concentration follows the plasma concentration with first-order equilibration rate keq = ln(2)/teq and steady-state ratio PC = Ccsf/Cc. Parameters are standardized to a 70 kg adult using fixed allometric exponents (0.75 on CL, 1 on V, 0.25 on the equilibration half-time teq; keq therefore scales with exponent -0.25). The published equation 2 for residual error var = SF^2 * (C^PWR + V) is unconventional and the NONMEM PWR and V terms are not reported; placeholder additive residual SDs are used so the model simulates plausibly (see vignette Errata).
Paracetamol (Krekels 2015) Parent-and-metabolites population PK model for intravenous paracetamol (administered as the prodrug propacetamol; doses expressed as paracetamol equivalents) and its glucuronide and sulphate phase-II conjugates in 54 preterm and term neonates and infants (Krekels 2015). One-compartment plasma disposition for paracetamol with three parallel elimination pathways from the central compartment: glucuronide formation (CL_gluc), sulphate formation (CL_sulf), and unchanged renal excretion (CL_renal). Each metabolite distributes into a one-compartment plasma space whose volume is fixed at 18% of the parent volume (Vc_gluc = Vc_sulf = 0.18 * Vc, based on the previously reported adult paracetamol model in Allegaert et al. and adult literature). The two metabolites share a common urinary excretion rate constant kE_met = mf * kE_renal, where kE_renal = CL_renal / Vc is the parent unchanged-renal rate constant and mf (multiplication factor) is estimated to be 11.3. Cumulative urinary amounts of parent paracetamol and the two metabolites are tracked as elimination-amount compartments and exposed as additive-error observations. Bodyweight enters linearly on Vc (and so on the metabolite volumes by inheritance), on the glucuronide formation clearance (CL_gluc), and on the unchanged renal clearance (CL_renal); the sulphate formation clearance (CL_sulf) scales with bodyweight as a power with an estimated exponent of 1.40. No postnatal age, postmenstrual age, sex, term-vs-preterm, or study-protocol covariate was retained in the final model, and no time-varying (up-regulation) component was detected on the glucuronidation pathway. Parameter values reported throughout (mL/min/kg, L/kg) are per-kg quantities; individual structural parameters are obtained in model() by multiplying by body weight in kg (linear) or body weight in kg raised to n (power).
Paracetamol (Wattanakul 2016) Two-compartment population PK model for paracetamol (acetaminophen) administered as a single 600 mg dose by either intramuscular injection (zero-order absorption over DUR_IM) or oral syrup (first-order absorption with rate constant ka) in 21 adult Thai patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria and fever > 38 C (Wattanakul 2016). Intramuscular bioavailability is fixed to F_IM = 1; the relative oral bioavailability is F_PO = 0.844 (95% CI 0.682-0.951). The depot compartment carries oral doses (f(depot) = F_PO) while intramuscular doses target central with rate = -2 to invoke the modeled dur(central) = DUR_IM. No covariates were retained: allometric scaling on body weight did not improve the fit and a stepwise covariate search (age, AST, ALT, bilirubin, BUN, creatinine, sex, hemoglobin, parasitaemia, systolic BP, temperature) found no significant effect at p < 0.05. Inter-individual variability for V_C and DUR_IM was estimated below 1% CV and fixed to zero in the source paper without changing the OFV; this model omits the corresponding etas accordingly.
Paroxetine (Kim 2015) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for paroxetine (SSRI antidepressant) in Korean adults with major depressive disorder or anxiety disorder receiving therapeutic drug monitoring (Kim 2015).
Patritumab (Lu 2022) Joint two-analyte population PK model for patritumab deruxtecan (HER3-DXd, an anti-HER3 antibody-drug conjugate) in adults with HER3-expressing solid tumors (Lu 2022). DXd-conjugated antibody (intact ADC) is described by a 2-compartment model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten clearance. Released unconjugated DXd (MAAA-1181a, exatecan-derivative payload) is described by a 1-compartment model with linear clearance and a first-order, time-dependent release rate driven by the level of DXd-conjugated antibody in the central compartment, scaled by the molecular-weight ratio MW_DXd/MW_DXdAb and a payload-to-intact-drug ratio PIR modulated by a cycle-1-vs-later (factor1) and a within-cycle exponential (factor2) modifier.
Pazopanib (Ouerdani 2015) Semi-mechanistic tumour growth and angiogenesis-inhibition (TGI) model for pazopanib in renal-cell carcinoma patients (Ouerdani 2015 clinical fit): logistic tumour growth (state tumor_size) limited by a separately tracked vasculature-determined carrying capacity (state carrying_capacity), with antiangiogenic and cytotoxic drug effects parameterised as power functions of per-period mean AUC_PAZO and an exponentially declining resistance on the cytotoxic effect. The empirical exponent on capacity growth (n) is fixed at 0.5 for the clinical fit (vs 1 in the paired mouse model) to better describe the tumour-regrowth and long-term-antiangiogenic phases observed in patients.
Pazopanib mouse (Ouerdani 2015) Preclinical (mouse, CB-17 SCID with CAKI-2 renal-cell carcinoma xenografts). Semi-mechanistic tumour growth and angiogenesis-inhibition (TGI) model for pazopanib (Ouerdani 2015): logistic tumour growth (state tumor_size) limited by a separately tracked vasculature-determined carrying capacity (state carrying_capacity), with an antiangiogenic drug effect on carrying-capacity loss (power form in AUC_PAZO) and a putative cytotoxic drug effect on tumour decay (exponentially declining resistance, no AUC effect after the cytotoxic exponent was fixed to 0).
Pegfilgrastim (Brekkan 2018) Bidirectional population PK/PD model for pegfilgrastim (PG) in healthy volunteers after single 6 mg subcutaneous doses. PK is one-compartment with sequential zero- and first-order absorption (zero-order input rate R1 into depot followed by first-order Ka into central), and parallel elimination via a linear ANC-dependent pathway (cl_anc * ANC) and a saturable non-specific Michaelis-Menten pathway (Vmax / Km). PD is a Friberg/Quartino-style maturation cascade (4 transit compartments + circulating compartment) with the production rate set by baseline ANC and a fixed 7-hour circulating neutrophil half-life, plus three Emax drug effects: proliferation (scaling production), maturation (scaling transit rate ktr), and a margination effect on circulating-pool clearance kcirc that is parameterised by scaled Emax,prol and EC50 (Emax,Scale = 0.0622, EC50,Scale = 0.477).
Peginesatide (Naik 2013) Two-compartment population PK/PD model for peginesatide in adult chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients (Naik 2013). PK: first-order subcutaneous absorption with saturable Michaelis-Menten elimination and fixed inter-compartmental clearance. PD: modified precursor-dependent lifespan indirect-response (LIDR) model of hemoglobin (1 progenitor compartment + 7 red-blood-cell aging compartments) with a peginesatide Emax stimulation on progenitor production and an empirical exponential downward-drift factor on the progenitor-to-RBC transit.
Peginterferon alfa 2a (Bi 2017) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for peginterferon alfa-2a in adult patients with chronic hepatitis B (Bi 2017). Creatinine clearance (Cockcroft-Gault, mL/min, not BSA-normalized) modifies clearance via a power form, and body mass index modifies central volume via a power form. Exponential IIV on CL, V, and Ka; combined proportional + additive residual error on plasma concentration.
Peginterferon beta 1a (Hu 2017) One-compartment population PK model for peginterferon beta-1a in adults with relapsing multiple sclerosis (Hu 2017). First-order SC absorption with the absorption rate constrained above the elimination rate to avoid flip-flop kinetics. BMI is a covariate on both clearance and volume of distribution.
Pembrolizumab (Ahamadi 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for pembrolizumab (humanized anti-PD-1 IgG4 monoclonal antibody) with allometric scaling and covariate effects of sex, albumin, tumor type, ECOG performance status, prior ipilimumab status, eGFR, and baseline tumor burden, in adults with advanced solid tumors (Ahamadi 2017, KEYNOTE-001/-002/-006)
Pembrolizumab (Elassaiss-Schaap 2017) Two-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten clearance plus a direct-response Imax PK/PD model on the ex vivo IL-2 stimulation ratio (PD-1 target engagement) for IV pembrolizumab (anti-PD-1 IgG4 mAb) in adults with advanced solid tumors (Elassaiss-Schaap 2017, KEYNOTE-001 parts A, A1, A2).
Penicillin G (Padari 2018) Two-compartment IV population PK model for penicillin G (benzylpenicillin) in preterm and term neonates (Padari 2018; pooled with Metsvaht 2007 GA <=28 wk cohort). CL and Q are allometrically scaled to body weight (fixed exponent 0.75) with a fixed Rhodin-style postmenstrual-age (PMA) sigmoidal renal-maturation function on CL; Vc and Vp are allometrically scaled (fixed exponent 1.0).
Pertuzumab (Garg 2014) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order linear elimination from the central compartment for intravenous pertuzumab (PERJETA) in patients with a variety of HER2-targeted solid tumors (Garg 2014)
Pertuzumab (Wang 2021) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order subcutaneous absorption and bioavailability for pertuzumab (Perjeta) administered either intravenously or as the fixed-dose combination subcutaneous formulation with trastuzumab (PH FDC SC) in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer in the FeDeriCa study (Wang 2021)
PF 06939999 (Guo 2022) Population PK/PD model for PF-06939999 (a small-molecule PRMT5 inhibitor) in 28 adults with advanced solid tumors enrolled in the dose-escalation part of NCT03854227. PK is a two-compartment model with first-order absorption (CL/F, V1/F, Q/F, V2/F, Ka). Plasma SDMA (the PD biomarker for PRMT5 inhibition) is modelled by an indirect-response model with saturable Imax inhibition on zero-order SDMA production (Kin/Kout), the log-transformed SDMA observation taking an additive (log-normal) residual error. Platelet count is described by the Friberg semi-mechanistic myelosuppression model (proliferating cells plus three transit compartments feeding a circulating compartment) with a linear drug effect Slope*Cc on the proliferation rate and feedback (Circ0/circ)^gamma.
PF04236921 (Li 2018) Integrated population PK and indirect-response PK/PD model for the anti-interleukin-6 monoclonal antibody PF-04236921 in healthy volunteers and adults with rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, or systemic lupus erythematosus (Li 2018). Two-compartment IV/SC PK with first-order absorption and linear elimination from the central compartment; disease-stratified linear clearance and PD parameters; PF-04236921 inhibits the zero-order CRP synthesis rate of an indirect-response model.
PF04455242 human (Chang 2011) Two-compartment population PK and reduced direct-response PD model for PF-04455242 (kappa opioid receptor antagonist) in healthy adult volunteers (Chang 2011). PK is fit with zero-order oral absorption (duration D1) and lag time (ALAG1) into the central compartment; residual error uses the log-transform-both-sides (lognormal) form. PD is the reduced antagonism model (Eq. 11/12) that replaces the spiradoline PK with a deterministic Weibull-scaled placebo prolactin profile and predicts the time-matched prolactin response under PF-04455242 antagonism. Simulation time t = 0 must be aligned with the IM spiradoline challenge dose; PF-04455242 is dosed earlier (typically t = -1 h in the proof-of-mechanism study).
PF04455242 rat (Chang 2011) Preclinical (Sprague-Dawley rat). Competitive antagonism PK-PD model of PF-04455242 (kappa opioid receptor antagonist) on spiradoline-induced plasma prolactin elevation. One-compartment first-order absorption PK for both spiradoline (KOR agonist challenge) and PF-04455242, with a dose-dependent absorption rate constant for PF-04455242 (1.64 /h at 3.2 mg/kg SC, 0.385 /h at 10 mg/kg SC). Direct-response sigmoid Emax PD: prolactin = baseline + Emax * Csp^gamma / ((EC50 * (1 + Cpf/Ki))^gamma + Csp^gamma) with competitive antagonism of the spiradoline-induced rise by PF-04455242. Spiradoline plasma compartments are declared via paper_specific_compartments rather than registering a new sibling-drug suffix; see Errata in the vignette for the rationale.
Phenytoin (Hennig 2015) One-compartment population PK model for phenytoin in critically ill children with a linear partition coefficient describing protein binding to albumin (Hennig 2015).
Phenytoin (Tanaka 2012) Two-compartment population PK model for phenytoin after IV fosphenytoin sodium administration in Japanese healthy volunteers and adult / pediatric patients (Tanaka 2012). The fosphenytoin compartment converts first-order (K12) to the phenytoin central compartment; phenytoin is cleared from central and exchanges with a peripheral compartment via Q.
Phenytoin (Yukawa 1990) Steady-state Michaelis-Menten population PK model for phenytoin in 334 Japanese epilepsy outpatients on chronic oral phenytoin (Yukawa 1990 Model 2). Covariate effects on Vmax (allometric body weight, co-anticonvulsants) and Km (age <15 yr, co-anticonvulsants); dose-dependent powder bioavailability.
Piperacillin (Boer-Perez 2026) One-compartment population PK model for piperacillin in preterm and term neonates with severe infections (Boer-Perez 2026); body-weight allometric scaling, sigmoidal postmenstrual-age maturation on CL fixed from Rhodin 2009, and a power effect of serum creatinine on CL.
Piperacillin (CohenWolkowiez 2014) One-compartment population PK model for piperacillin in premature and term infants under 61 days postnatal age (Cohen-Wolkowiez 2014); linear body-weight scaling on CL and V (fixed exponent = 1) and a power effect of postmenstrual age on CL.
Piperacillin (Landersdorfer 2012) Three-compartment population PK model for piperacillin in healthy adult volunteers after intravenous infusion, with parallel first-order plus mixed-order (Michaelis-Menten) renal clearance and first-order non-renal clearance; a urine compartment accumulates the renally excreted amount (Landersdorfer 2012 Model 3, the final model)
Piperacillin (Nichols 2016) One-compartment population PK model for piperacillin in critically ill children (1-9 years) receiving extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam (Nichols 2016); IV zero-order input, first-order elimination, and a linear-additive effect of body weight on CL centered at the cohort median 18 kg.
Piperacillin (ObrinkHansen 2015) Two-compartment population PK model for piperacillin in critically ill adults with septic shock (Obrink-Hansen 2015); linear first-order elimination with an additive linear effect of plasma creatinine on clearance, IIV on CL and central volume, and a proportional residual error.
Piperaquine (Hoglund 2012) Population PK model for oral piperaquine in pregnant and non-pregnant Sudanese women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (Hoglund 2012). Three-transit-compartment absorption (ka = ktr) into a three-compartment disposition model. Body weight is the only retained covariate, applied as an allometric function on all clearances (fixed exponent 0.75) and volumes (fixed exponent 1.0). Relative bioavailability F is fixed at 1. The final model retains BSV on CL and F, treats MTT between-occasion variability as forward-simulation IIV, and uses an additive residual on the log-transformed observation (proportional in linear concentration space).
Piperaquine (Hoglund 2017) Population PK model for oral piperaquine in adults, children, and healthy volunteers across 11 pooled clinical studies (Hoglund 2017; individual-participant-data meta-analysis, n = 728). Two-transit- compartment absorption with kA = kTR feeding a three-compartment disposition model. Allometric body weight scaling on all clearances (fixed exponent 0.75) and volumes (fixed exponent 1.0) with reference weight 54 kg. Enzyme maturation function on elimination clearance (Hill-type sigmoid with MF50 = 0.575 y, Hill = 5.51). Dose-occasion effect adds 23.7% to relative bioavailability per consecutive dose. Bioavailability anchored at 1 with IIV. Predictions are venous plasma piperaquine base concentrations (ng/mL); a separately estimated capillary-to-venous scale of 106% is documented but not applied because only venous output is simulated.
Piperaquine (Tarning 2008) Population PK model for oral piperaquine in Burmese and Karen adults and children with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (Tarning 2008). Two-compartment disposition with first-order absorption (no lag) and elimination from the central compartment. Body weight is the only retained covariate: a linear (1 + theta * (WT - 48)) effect on apparent oral clearance CL/F and on apparent central volume of distribution Vc/F, centred on the cohort median of 48 kg. The combined three-dose and four-dose Artekin regimens were pooled; no treatment-regimen effect was retained. Exponential IIV on all five disposition / absorption parameters. Residual error is proportional in linear concentration space (the source paper fit an additive error on natural-log-transformed concentrations).
Piperaquine (Tarning 2012) Three-compartment population PK model for oral piperaquine in 24 pregnant (second / third trimester) and 24 matched non-pregnant women with uncomplicated malaria treated with the fixed-dose oral dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine combination once daily for 3 days (Tarning 2012 AAC). Transit-compartment absorption with 5 fixed transit compartments (ktr = (n+1)/MTT with n=5); the drug-transit rate is set equal to the absorption rate from the last transit to central (single estimated ktr). F fixed at 1; CL/F and F carry proportional pregnancy effects (+45.0% on CL/F and +46.8% on F). IIV on CL/F (21.5% CV) and Vc/F (39.5% CV); between-occasion variability (BOV across 3 dose occasions) on MTT (45.8% CV) and F (56.3% CV) multiplexed by the OCC indicator. Additive residual on natural-log concentrations (sigma = 0.285), encoded as proportional residual on the linear-concentration scale per Kloprogge 2018 lumefantrine precedent. Companion file Tarning_2012_dihydroartemisinin.R models the co-administered dihydroartemisinin arm.
Piperaquine (Tarning 2014) Population PK model for oral piperaquine in adults with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Thailand (Tarning 2014; n = 30, fed vs fasting parallel design). Three-transit-compartment absorption (ka = ktr) feeding a three-compartment disposition model. Allometric body-weight scaling on all clearances (fixed exponent 0.75) and volumes (fixed exponent 1.0); 70 kg reference. Linear dose-occasion effect on relative bioavailability (+25.3% per consecutive dose, OCC = 1, 2, 3). Linear age effect on the first peripheral volume of distribution (+4.10% per year of age). Relative bioavailability anchored at 1 with between-dose-occasion variability (no BSV in the final model). Concomitant low-fat food was tested as a covariate but was not retained in the final model.
Polatuzumab (Lu 2019) Integrated two-analyte population PK model of polatuzumab vedotin (anti-CD79b vc-MMAE antibody-drug conjugate) in adults with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Lu 2019). The antibody-conjugated MMAE (acMMAE) is described by a two-compartment model with three parallel elimination pathways from the central compartment: a slowly-time-decaying nonspecific linear clearance (CL_NS, sigmoidal Hill decline with cycle), a rapidly-decaying linear clearance (CL_t, mono-exponential decline), and a saturable Michaelis-Menten clearance (CL_MM). All three acMMAE pathways feed unconjugated MMAE formation in the central MMAE compartment with relative conversion fractions FRAC_NS, FRAC_NS x FRAC_CLT, and FRAC_NS x FRAC_MM, modulated by a time-dependent multiplier (1 + FRAC_T x exp(-alpha x t)) on FRAC_NS that captures the cycle-over-cycle decline in MMAE formation. Unconjugated MMAE is described by an apparent two-compartment model with parallel linear (CL_MMAE) and Michaelis-Menten (Vmax_MMAE / KSS) elimination from its central compartment. Modeled in MMAE-equivalent micrograms (pola dose in ug/kg x weight in kg x 3.65 x 718 / 145001 -> MMAE-equivalent ug administered to the acMMAE central compartment), with concentrations in ng/mL = ug/L. The Asian-race indicator on acMMAE Vc (e_asian_vc = 0.929, i.e., 7.1% lower V1 in Asian patients) is retained from the Lu 2019 final model and was subsequently re-quoted and assessed as not clinically meaningful in the Shi 2020 ethnicity-sensitivity analysis (PMID 32770353) of the same upstream popPK model.
Posdinemab (PerezRuixo 2025) Mechanism-based population PK-PD model with full TMDD for the anti-tau monoclonal antibody posdinemab in serum, CSF, and ISF (Perez-Ruixo 2025): two-compartment serum disposition with linear elimination, distribution into a CSF compartment and a downstream ISF compartment, explicit second-order binding of free posdinemab to free p217+tau in CSF and to tau seeds in ISF, internalization of free target and drug-target complex, and Alzheimer’s-disease-vs-healthy effect on baseline p217+tau.
Pozelimab (Lin 2024) Two-compartment two-binding-site TMDD-QE population PK model of total pozelimab and total C5 in healthy volunteers, adults with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and pediatric and adult patients with CHAPLE disease (Lin 2024)
Pravastatin (Ide 2009) Population PK model for orally administered pravastatin with enterohepatic circulation (Ide 2009) in healthy Japanese male volunteers. Absorption is described by an Erlang chain of 8 transit compartments (N_depot = 8); disposition is one-compartment central with a gallbladder recirculation compartment whose release is gated by the gallbladder-emptying time tg (continuous filling from central via k12 for t < tg, gated release to central via k21 for t >= tg) producing the characteristic second-peak phenomenon. SLCO1B1 *15 haplotype carrier status (paired heterozygote / homozygote indicators) increases relative oral bioavailability Frel multiplicatively (1.50x and 1.95x respectively). Gastric conversion of pravastatin to its inactive 3’alpha-isopravastatin (RMS-416) is highly variable; the source paper corrected for this by using an apparent dose (actual dose x Fa, where Fa = AUCpra / (AUCpra + AUCrms)) as the model input, so the packaged model fixes the depot bioavailability anchor at the population-mean Fa = 0.571 derived from Table II mean AUC values.
Pregabalin rat binary (Bender 2009) Preclinical (rat). Two-compartment population PK model for pregabalin in male Sprague-Dawley rats following a 2 h intravenous infusion (4 or 10 mg/kg/h) in a chronic- constriction-injury (CCI) neuropathic-pain model, with the concomitant administration of sildenafil encoded as a BINARY presence indicator (CONMED_SILDENAFIL). Sildenafil presence reduces pregabalin clearance by a fixed fraction (theta_SLD = 0.302, i.e. 30.2% reduction) per the paper’s discrete-covariate parameterisation; the alternative continuous saturable-metabolite parameterisation is encoded in the companion file Bender_2009_pregabalin_rat_smetab.R. Crossover design with two occasions per rat (Day 1 / Day 4 with a washout) carries between-occasion variability on CL and Vc multiplexed by the OCC indicator. Parameter values from Bender 2009 Table IV (Binary Sildenafil Covariate column).
Pregabalin rat smetab (Bender 2009) Preclinical (rat). Two-compartment population PK model for pregabalin in male Sprague-Dawley rats following a 2 h intravenous infusion (4 or 10 mg/kg/h) in a chronic- constriction-injury (CCI) neuropathic-pain model, with the concomitant administration of sildenafil encoded as a CONTINUOUS saturable inhibition driven by the time-varying plasma concentration of sildenafil’s active N-methyl metabolite (SLDM). Effective CL = theta_CL * (1 - SLDM / (theta_SLD + SLDM)) with theta_SLD = 1350 ng/mL acting as the IC50 of metabolite-driven inhibition. Statistically the preferred parameterisation in the paper (delta-OFV = -42.6 vs the no-covariate base; the simpler binary form is in the companion file Bender_2009_pregabalin_rat_binary.R with delta-OFV = -8.5). Crossover design with two occasions per rat (Day 1 / Day 4 with a washout) carries between-occasion variability on CL and Vc multiplexed by the OCC indicator. Parameter values from Bender 2009 Table IV (Continuous Sildenafil Metabolite Covariate column).
PRO95780 (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for PRO95780 (drozitumab) in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Propofol (Diepstraten 2013) Three-compartment intravenous population PK model for propofol in morbidly obese and nonobese adults, adolescents, and children (Diepstraten 2013 meta-analysis of five previously published studies; N = 94 patients, TBW 37-184 kg, age 9-79 years). Final model E in Table 3: total body weight scales clearance allometrically with an estimated exponent and scales the slow inter-compartmental clearance Q3 linearly; age modifies clearance via a bilinear function centered at 41 years with separate slopes below and above the breakpoint. Inter-individual variability on CL, V1, V3, and Q3 (log-normal) and proportional intra-individual error on log-transformed concentrations.
Propofol (Przybylowski 2015) Three-compartment IV population PK plus effect-compartment sigmoidal Emax PD model for propofol in adult ASA III cancer patients undergoing major lung surgery under propofol-fentanyl total intravenous anesthesia (Przybylowski 2015; N = 23). The PD response is the AAI (A-line ARX-Index) auditory-evoked-potential depth-of-anesthesia index with the maximum effect fixed to 1 and the pretreatment baseline fixed to 87 from a prior study. Inter-individual variability was estimated on Vc, CL, and the deep-compartment intercompartmental clearance Q2 for PK and on Ce50, gamma (Hill), and ke0 for PD; IIV on Vt1, Q1, Vt2 was fixed to 0 (data uninformative). No demographic, biochemical, or hemodynamic covariates were retained in the final model (Results).
Propofol (Wang 2012) Three-compartment intravenous population PK model for propofol across the human life-span (Wang 2012; 174 subjects pooled across seven previously published studies covering preterm and term neonates, infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults; body weight 0.68-122.7 kg, age 1 day-81 years). Final ‘bodyweight-dependent exponent (BDE)’ model (Model IV / Final PK model, Table IV): clearance is scaled by total body weight via a power function whose exponent k changes sigmoidally with body weight from k0 = 1.34 at a theoretical 0 kg to k0 - kmax = 0.55 at large body weights, with k50 = 3.78 kg and a Hill coefficient gamma = 5.24 governing the steepness of the decline. The slow inter-compartmental clearance Q3 and the second peripheral volume V3 scale linearly with body weight (BW/70); the first peripheral volume V2 scales as (BW/70)^0.55; the fast inter-compartmental clearance Q2 is independent of body weight. The central volume V1 = 7.58 L is constant for subjects with postnatal age >= 100 days and scales linearly as V1 * (BW/70) for younger subjects. Inter-individual variability (log-normal) was retained on CL, V1, V2, V3, and Q3; no IIV on Q2. Additive residual error on log-transformed concentrations was used, equivalent to a proportional error on the linear concentration scale.
Propofol human (Knibbe 2005) Two-compartment intravenous population PK model for propofol in a 70 kg adult human, projected from male Wistar rat (0.25 kg) parameters via the allometric power model with literature exponents 0.75 for clearances and 1 for volumes. Parameter values are taken from Knibbe 2005 Table 3 (column ‘Scaled for humans (70 kg)’); inter- and intra-individual variability are inherited from the rat fit (Table 3, column ‘Observed in the rat (250 g)’) per the Methods text ‘these human scaled pharmacokinetic parameters, together with … intra- and interindividual variabilities estimated in the rat were used to simulate propofol concentrations’. The companion file Knibbe_2005_propofol_rat.R carries the rat-side parameters used as the scaling anchor. Knibbe 2005 demonstrated that concentrations simulated from this scaled-human model agreed (r^2 = 0.83, P < 0.0001) with concentrations observed in long-term-sedated critically ill patients (Figure 2).
Propofol rat (Knibbe 2005) Preclinical (rat). Two-compartment intravenous population PK model for propofol in male Wistar rats following a single 30 mg/kg bolus delivered over 5 min, as reported in Table 3 (column ‘Observed in the rat (250 g)’) of Knibbe 2005. The underlying NONMEM fit was performed by Knibbe et al. (reference 11 of the paper) on 19 whole-blood samples from each of 22 chronically instrumented rats; Knibbe 2005 reproduces those rat point estimates and uses them as the species anchor for an allometric scaling to humans (see the companion model file Knibbe_2005_propofol_human.R, which carries the human-projected parameters from Table 3 column ‘Scaled for humans (70 kg)’). Log-normal inter-individual variability on CL, V1, Q, V2 and a constant-CV proportional intra-individual residual error model.
Propofol sheep (Ngamprasertwong 2016) Preclinical (sheep). Maternal-fetal population PK model of propofol in mid-gestational pregnant Dorset ewes (Ngamprasertwong 2016; N = 8 ewe-fetus pairs at 110-125 days gestation; term ~147-150 days). Two-compartment maternal disposition (central + peripheral1) linked to a single fetal compartment via a reversible inter-compartmental clearance QM-F; fetal clearance was tested but estimated near zero (<0.001 L/min, RSE >100%) and set to zero in the final model. Maternal clearance scales with heart rate via the normalised power model CL = theta1 * (HR/158)^theta2; no other covariate (gestational age, body weight, blood pressure, uterine blood flow) reached statistical significance. Inter-individual variability was estimated on CL and QM-F; IIV on Vc, Q, Vp, and VFetus was fixed to zero in the source and is omitted here. Residual error is purely proportional, with separate variances for maternal-ewe and fetal observations.
Propranolol (DelFrari 2018) One-compartment population PK model for oral propranolol in infants (aged 50-243 days, 3.6-9.7 kg) with proliferative Infantile Hemangiomas (Del Frari 2018). First-order absorption and first-order elimination; apparent oral clearance CL/F scales with body weight using a fixed allometric exponent of 0.75 and a reference weight of 6.3 kg (the median weight pooled across visits D1-D84). Apparent volume V/F has no covariate effect (the paper tested but did not retain weight on V/F). Between-subject variability is retained on CL/F and Ka only; BSV on V/F was dropped from the final model (large 95% CI including 0 and 62.3% eta-shrinkage). Residual error is proportional.
Propranolol (Takechi 2018) One-compartment first-order absorption population PK model for oral propranolol in Japanese infants with infantile hemangioma (35-150 days postnatal age), with fixed allometric body-weight scaling and a power effect of postnatal age on apparent oral clearance; the companion logistic-regression PD model relating exposure (AUC), treatment duration, and gestational age to treatment-success probability is reproduced in the validation vignette.
Pyrazinamide (Alsultan 2017) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with first-order absorption and first-order elimination for oral pyrazinamide in adults with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis (Alsultan 2017); body weight is an allometric covariate on CL/F and V/F (fixed exponents 0.75 and 1) and biological sex is an exponential covariate on V/F
Pyrazinamide (Chirehwa 2017) One-compartment population PK model with Savic-style transit-compartment absorption (NN = 28) for oral pyrazinamide in HIV/TB-coinfected adults on the WHO four-drug fixed-dose combination (Chirehwa 2017); fat-free mass (Janmahasatian formula) drives fixed allometric scaling of CL/F (exponent 0.75) and V/F (exponent 1.0) referenced to a 42 kg subject, and CL/F increases linearly by 14.3% from day 1 to day 29 of treatment, attributed to rifampin-mediated enzyme induction.
Pyrazinamide (Horita 2018) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with three-compartment transit absorption followed by first-order absorption and first-order elimination for oral pyrazinamide in Ghanaian children with active tuberculosis (Horita 2018); allometric weight scaling on V/F (estimated exponent 0.677) and CL/F (estimated exponent 0.735) normalised to the cohort median 14.3 kg.
Pyrimethamine (Karunajeewa 2009) Population PK model for pyrimethamine (PYR) in 60 Papua New Guinean women (30 pregnant, second or third trimester; 30 age-matched nonpregnant controls) given a single oral 1,500 mg sulfadoxine / 75 mg pyrimethamine dose for intermittent presumptive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (Karunajeewa 2009). Two-compartment disposition with first-order absorption and no lag, fit as a separate NONMEM dataset from the parent SDOX/NASDOX dataset. Allometric scaling at reference WT = 70 kg is applied to all apparent volumes (exponent 1) and all apparent clearances (exponent 0.75). Pregnancy is the only retained covariate; it enters as additive terms on apparent CL/F (+0.439 L/h/70 kg), Vc/F (+76 L/70 kg) and Vp/F (+98 L/70 kg). Between-subject variability on CL/F, Vc/F and Vp/F is correlated (3x3 block, correlations 0.797 / 0.756 / 0.731 from Table 4); BSV on Q/F and ka is independent. The companion model for the co-administered sulfadoxine plus its NASDOX metabolite is shipped as ‘Karunajeewa_2009_sulfadoxine’ (separate NONMEM dataset, fit independently in the source publication).
Pyronaridine (Ayyoub 2016) Pooled population PK model of oral pyronaridine in 349 pediatric malaria patients (0.51-15 years, 6.8-56.2 kg) from one phase II and five phase III studies of the pyronaridine-artesunate fixed-dose combination (Pyramax). Two-compartment disposition with first-order absorption and first-order elimination from the central compartment. Body weight enters as fixed allometric scaling (exponent 0.75 on CL/F and Q/F, 1.00 on V2/F and V3/F, centred on a 20 kg reference). Age enters as a power covariate on the peripheral volume V3/F (exponent 0.624, centred on a 7 yr reference). Formulation (1 = pediatric granule sachet, 0 = tablet) increases the absorption rate Ka by 1.63-fold over the tablet baseline. Residual error is additive on the natural-log concentration scale (equivalent to proportional in linear space). Dose is encoded as pyronaridine base in mg (paper Methods: pyronaridine tetraphosphate doses are multiplied by 0.57 prior to modeling).
Quinidine (Fattinger 1991) Two-compartment population PK model for oral quinidine in adults treated for supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias (Fattinger 1991). Zero-order absorption from the gastrointestinal tract with formulation-specific absorption duration: immediate-release quinidine sulphate (Chinidin sulfuricum) with a typical absorption duration of 1.37 h, and slow-release quinidine bisulphate (Kinidin duriles) with a typical absorption duration of 6.0 h and a 1.36-fold higher relative bioavailability versus quinidine sulphate. Apparent total clearance is the sum of a renal arm proportional to creatinine clearance (proportionality 0.0566 L/h per mL/min) and a non-renal arm of 12.6 L/h that is halved to 6.8 L/h in patients with severe heart failure or severe liver failure. Apparent central volume is 161 L. Inter-compartmental clearance Q is 12.6 L/h and peripheral volume V2 is 66.7 L. Inter-individual variability is assigned to total clearance (40.2% CV), central volume (75.6% CV), and the quinidine sulphate absorption duration (49.4% CV); residual variability is proportional (22% CV).
Quinine (Kloprogge 2014) Population PK model for oral quinine in pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda (Kloprogge 2014). First-order absorption into a two-compartment disposition model with allometric body-weight scaling on clearance and intercompartmental clearance (power 2/3) and on apparent volumes (power 1), centered at the cohort typical weight of 56 kg. Relative bioavailability F is fixed at 1 with log-normal IIV; a linear covariate effect of time-varying parasitaemia (per log10 parasites/uL, last-observation-carried-forward) increases F by 38.9% per log10 parasitaemia, and an exponential effect of admission body temperature decreases elimination clearance by ~21.6% per degC (centered at the cohort median 37.2 degC).
Quinine (LeJouan 2005) Population PK model for oral quinine in Cameroonian children (aged 0.55-6.7 years) with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (Le Jouan 2005). One-compartment with first-order absorption, time-varying free fraction fu = 0.15 + 0.001(t - 36) anchored at the literature value fu(t=36 h) = 0.15 (Babalola 1989) and clamped to its t = 72 h value beyond the studied window, and linear-in-body-weight apparent clearance CL/F = fu 0.53 * WT and apparent volume V/F = fu * (57 + 3.8 * WT). Doses are oral quinine base in mg.
Quinine rat (Sheng 2016) Preclinical (rat). Two generalized Poisson (2GP) mixture PD model for bimodal lick-count data from rodent brief-access taste aversion (BATA) experiments with quinine hydrochloride dihydrate; the drug effect enters via a sigmoid emax on a logistic-transformed mixing probability between a low-count and a right-truncated high-count generalized-Poisson distribution. The fitted compound is quinine HCl dihydrate used as a model bitter stimulus. STIM_QUININE_MM is the applied sipper-tube concentration (mM); there is no PK ODE and no time evolution (each record is an 8-second presentation).
Radiation radiosensitizer mouse (Cardilin 2018) Preclinical (mouse, FaDu head-and-neck xenograft). Tumor growth inhibition model for combination therapy with ionizing radiation and a radiosensitizer (linear-quadratic radiation kill with a damage-compartment transit chain, driven by a one-compartment radiosensitizer PK).
Raltegravir (Lee 2016) Population PK model for oral raltegravir (a UGT1A1 phenotyping probe) and its glucuronide metabolite in 24 East Asian patients with advanced solid tumours receiving FOLFIRI chemotherapy (Lee 2016). Raltegravir absorption is described with a depot, a single transit compartment (the paper estimates a non-integer NN = 1.07 in the Savic 2007 transit-chain framework; the packaged model approximates this with one explicit transit compartment), and a one-compartment central compartment with first-order elimination (CL/F, V/F). Raltegravir glucuronide is described by a one-compartment metabolite compartment (central_gluc) with V_GLU fixed at 1 L (a structural identifiability anchor) and a first-order metabolite clearance CL_GLU. The formation rate constant kmet maps to the source paper’s FMET, which the authors define as the formation rate of glucuronide divided by V_GLU; with V_GLU fixed at 1 L, kmet has units 1/h and drives dA_gluc / dt = kmet * V_GLU * C_RAL_central - CL_GLU * C_gluc. Bioavailability F is fixed at 1 (single oral dose; absolute F not identifiable). IIV is reported on CL/F, MTT, F, V/F, kmet (FMET), and CL_GLU with a single off-diagonal covariance between CL/F and V/F (correlation 0.567). The residual error was reported as additive on log-transformed observations for both raltegravir and glucuronide, which maps to a proportional residual on the linear-concentration scale. No baseline covariates (age, sex, weight, body surface area, serum albumin / creatinine / bilirubin / liver enzymes, ethnicity, or UGT1A1 * 6 / * 28 / * 60 and CYP3A5 * 3 genotypes) were retained in the final model.
Raltegravir (Wang 2011) Population PK model for plasma and intracellular (PBMC) raltegravir after a single 400 mg oral dose in six healthy male Singaporean volunteers (Wang 2011). Plasma PK is described by a one-compartment model with first-order elimination preceded by a chain of two transit compartments between depot and central (Kappelhoff 2005 transit-absorption parameterisation: MAT = (n + 1) / ktr with n = 2 transit compartments). Bioavailability F is implicit in the apparent CL/F and V/F. Intracellular (PBMC) raltegravir is described as an empirical partition of the predicted plasma concentration via the paper’s accumulation ratio ACR (point estimate 11.2%) with its own inter-individual variability and exponential residual error (Wang 2011 Eq.: C_IC,obs = ACR * C_plasma,pred * exp(eps_IC)). The packaged model maps ACR to the canonical paper-named bare parameter frac and its log-transformed primary lfrac. No baseline covariates were retained in the final model. Note that the paper’s term ‘accumulation ratio’ is a misnomer in the conventional sense – ACR < 1 means raltegravir does NOT accumulate intracellularly, consistent with simple diffusion of unbound drug into PBMCs (the authors’ Conclusions).
Raltitrexed (Blair 2004) Three-compartment population PK model for intravenous raltitrexed (Tomudex) in adult patients with advanced solid tumours, with linear-additive covariate effects of Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance on CL and of body weight and serum albumin on central volume (Blair 2004)
Ranibizumab (Mulyukov 2018) Indirect-response PK/PD model of intravitreal ranibizumab on best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA, ETDRS letters) in anti-VEGF-naive adults with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (Mulyukov 2018). BCVA is driven by an indirect-response ODE in which drug concentration stimulates the BCVA production rate (kin) through a Michaelis-Menten-like term with a time-dependent maximum effect emax(t) = emax_ss + demax_0 * exp(-kemax * t). The PK is a fixed first-order vitreous-elimination placeholder (kel = 0.077/day, vitreous volume = 4 mL, no IIV) borrowed from a previous population PK analysis (reference 20 of the paper) because vitreous PK data were not collected in the development studies.
Remifentanil (Yang 2017) One-compartment population PK model for continuous intravenous remifentanil infusion in critically ill adults receiving venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO), with sex and centrifugal-pump rotational speed as covariates on clearance (Yang 2017).
Respiratory physiology (Mann 2022) QSP. Magosso / Ursino respiratory and cerebrovascular physiology with Mann 2022 extensions for opioid-induced ventilatory depression and cardiovascular-collapse / cardiac-arrest dynamics. Encodes the 11-state physiological submodel from the FDA delaymymod.c implementation, plus the cardiac-arrest event rule (PaO2 below 15 mm Hg sustained 220 s -> cardiac output decays toward 0.01 L/min). The CAR (fraction of opioid receptors bound by an agonist) input drives reductions in wakefulness drive (W - Wmax * CAR^P3) and chemoreflex drives (factor 1 - CAR^P1). The Spencer dissociation algebra for blood gas exchange is carried inline. The original FDA implementation uses delay- differential equations for peripheral and central chemoreflex filtering with delays of roughly K_Dp/(Qb+Qt) ~ 7 s and K_Dc/(Qb+Qt) ~ 11 s; this model deploys the limit of zero delay (Plag_X = X, Clag_X = X), which preserves the steady-state structure and longer-time-scale overdose dynamics but does not reproduce the second-scale delay artefacts of the original. Composes downstream of Mann_2022_mu_receptor_binding (CAR_OPIOID input).
RFIXFc (Diao 2014) Three-compartment population PK model for recombinant factor IX Fc fusion protein (rFIXFc, eftrenonacog alfa) in patients with severe to moderate haemophilia B aged 12-77 years (Diao 2014). Disposition is described by linear three-compartment kinetics with intravenous input and first-order elimination from the central compartment; body weight is the only retained covariate, scaling CL and V1 with estimated power exponents (not the canonical 0.75 / 1) and a reference weight of 73 kg.
Rfxiii cyno (Dodds 2005) Preclinical (cynomolgus monkey). Three-state mechanistic population PK model for recombinant Factor XIII A2 dimer (rA2) administered IV bolus, with endogenous constant-influx production of A2 dimer and B monomer, mass-action association A2 + 2 B -> A2B2 heterotetramer following the 1A2 + 2B -> 1A2B2 stoichiometry, first-order elimination of each species, and three ELISA assay outputs (total A2 = A2 + A2B2; A2B2 tetramer; free B) with proportional + proportional + additive residual error. Parameters are weight-normalised throughout (mass / kg). Estimated in NONMEM V (Dodds 2005).
Rifabutin (Hennig 2015) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for rifabutin with simultaneous two-compartment metabolite (25-O-desacetyl rifabutin) modelling in 44 African HIV-infected adults with pulmonary tuberculosis on 300 mg daily oral rifabutin (Hennig 2015). Body weight allometrically scaled (a priori; CL exponent 0.75, V exponent 1) on all rifabutin apparent clearances and apparent volumes; sex effect on rifabutin V/F (males 1.84-fold higher than females); SLCO1B1 rs11045819 heterozygous-AC genotype increases rifabutin bioavailability F by 30.4 percent relative to homozygous-CC reference. Des-rifabutin parameters are apparent (with respect to rifabutin F and metabolite-formation fraction) and were estimated without allometric scaling, with metabolite Q and peripheral V fixed.
Rifampicin (Barnett 2018) One-compartment population PK model with Wilkins/Savic transit-compartment absorption for a single 600 mg oral dose of rifampicin in healthy adult males (Barnett 2018), refit from the Wilkins 2008 structural form. The rifampicin model is one of three popPK models developed jointly in Barnett 2018 to support OATP1B drug-drug-interaction modeling with coproporphyrin I and rosuvastatin; the rifampicin compartmental output is the time-varying CRIF input that drives the competitive OATP1B inhibition term in the sibling coproporphyrin I and rosuvastatin models.
Rifampicin (Clewe 2015) Pharmacometric pulmonary distribution model for rifampicin in adults without tuberculosis: a one-compartment plasma PK model with single-transit oral absorption coupled to a Smythe 2012 enzyme-pool autoinduction structure (MTT, N, EMAX, EC50, kENZ all fixed from the upstream Smythe 2012 model) plus two effect compartments capturing distribution from plasma to epithelial lining fluid (ELF) and alveolar cells (AC); CL/F and Vc/F are FFM-allometrically scaled to 70 kg, the ELF and AC equilibration rate constants kELF and kAC are fixed to an equivalent 1-min half-life (instantaneous distribution at the single 4-h post-dose BAL sampling time), and only the unbound steady-state ELF/plasma and AC/plasma concentration ratios are estimated (1.28 and 5.5 after correction for the 20% rifampicin plasma free fraction).
Rifampicin (Horita 2018) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with sequential zero-order then first-order absorption and first-order elimination for oral rifampin (rifampicin) in Ghanaian children with active tuberculosis (Horita 2018); allometric weight scaling on CL/F (fixed 0.75) and V/F (fixed 1.0) normalised to the cohort median 14.3 kg.
Rifampicin (Sloan 2017) One-compartment population PK model for oral rifampin in Malawian adults with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (Sloan 2017), developed using a two-stage NONMEM workflow: stage 1 fit a one-compartment + Savic 2007 transit-compartment absorption chain (NN, MTT, Ka) to 47 intensively-sampled patients, then stage 2 fit CL/F and V/F (plus IIVs and a multiplicative sex effect on CL) to 174 sparsely-sampled patients with absorption parameters fixed at the stage 1 estimates; F is fixed at 1, between-subject variability is on CL/F, V/F, and (fixed from stage 1) MTT, and an allometric weight model with fixed exponents 0.75 / 1.0 is referenced to 70 kg.
Rifampicin (Smythe 2012) Semimechanistic population PK / enzyme-turnover autoinduction model for oral rifampicin in adult tuberculosis patients (Smythe 2012). One-compartment disposition with single-transit absorption (N = 1 FIX) feeds the central compartment; rifampicin plasma concentration drives a nonlinear Emax production-rate increase on a unitary-baseline enzyme pool, which in turn multiplies apparent oral clearance. CL/F and V/F are Anderson-Holford normal-fat-mass (NFM) allometrically scaled to a 70-kg patient with separate estimated Ffat contributions on CL/F and V/F. HIV-positive status increases V/F by 29.6%. IIV is on CL/F (correlated with V/F at 91.1%), V/F, and EC50; interoccasion variability is on MTT and bioavailability F. Residual error is combined additive + proportional. The same one-compartment + single-transit + autoinduction structural backbone (and the autoinduction parameters MTT, N, Emax, EC50, kENZ) is inherited verbatim by Clewe 2015 and Svensson 2016 – see modellib(‘Clewe_2015_rifampicin’) and modellib(‘Svensson_2016_rifampicin’).
Rifampicin (Svensson 2016) Combined population PK/PD model for rifampicin in adults with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis: a one-compartment, single-transit, oral PK model with first-order plasma-concentration-driven autoinduction of clearance via an enzyme-pool turnover (structure from Smythe 2012) linked to the Multistate Tuberculosis Pharmacometric (MTP) three-state bacterial disease model (fast-, slow-, and nonmultiplying Mycobacterium tuberculosis states; structure from Clewe 2016) with rifampicin drug effects as fixed-at-100% on/off inhibition of fast-multiplying bacterial growth plus second-order plasma-concentration-driven death of slow- and nonmultiplying bacteria; all PK parameters and all MTP transfer/growth rates are fixed to the upstream-paper estimates, while the system carrying capacity Bmax (with 152% CV IIV) and the two second-order death rates SDk and NDk are re-estimated against 19 patients from a 1966-1977 Kenyan rifampicin monotherapy trial.
Rifampicin (Vinnard 2017) One-compartment population PK model for oral rifampicin in HIV/TB patients in Botswana (Vinnard 2017), with a Savic 2007 analytical transit-compartment absorption chain feeding a virtual depot, oral bioavailability fixed at 1, between-subject variability on CL, F, MTT, and the (non-integer) number of transit compartments NN, and inter-occasion variability on F across two sampling visits (pre-ART vs after approximately 4 weeks of ART).
Rifampicin (Wicha 2018) Preclinical-to-clinical translational Multistate Tuberculosis Pharmacometric (MTP) framework for high-dose oral rifampicin in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis. The Svensson 2018 HIGHRIF1 plasma PK model (Erlang transit absorption + Michaelis-Menten clearance + enzyme-pool autoinduction + dose-dependent bioavailability anchored at 450 mg) is coupled via the Clewe 2015 epithelial lining fluid (ELF) effect compartment to a new post-antibiotic-effect (PAE) compartment with saturable Michaelis-Menten elimination, driving the Clewe 2016 three-state MTP model (fast-, slow-, and nonmultiplying Mycobacterium tuberculosis substates) at human-specific carrying capacity Bmax = 2.42e8/mL and fast-multiplying growth rate kG = 0.206/day. Time unit is days; all PK rates from Svensson 2018 (reported in 1/h) and the ELF kELF from Clewe 2015 are multiplied by 24 to bring to days. All structural parameters are fixed at the Wicha 2018 Table 1 typical values; only the Svensson 2018 IIV is carried (IOV is omitted because the EBA forward simulation models a single 14-day monotherapy course). The model predicts early bactericidal activity (EBA0-2 / EBA0-5 / EBA0-14) for clinical rifampicin doses 2.5-50 mg/kg without re-estimating any parameter from clinical EBA data.
Rilotumumab (Zhang 2016) Two-compartment IV population PK model for rilotumumab (fully human anti-HGF IgG2 monoclonal antibody) in patients with MET-positive gastric or gastroesophageal-junction adenocarcinoma receiving rilotumumab in combination with epirubicin / cisplatin / capecitabine (ECX). The structural model and parameter values were inherited from the previously developed population PK analysis of rilotumumab (Zhu et al. 2014, J Pharm Sci 103:328-336); Zhang 2016 reports the typical-value point estimates and IIV %CV from that prior model and uses it as the reference for an external visual predictive check assessing whether ECX co-administration alters rilotumumab PK.
Rilpivirine (Aouri 2017) One-compartment population PK model for oral rilpivirine in HIV-1-infected adults (Aouri 2017), with zero-order absorption from the gastrointestinal tract directly into the central compartment (duration D1 = 4 h; derived mean absorption time D1/2 = 2 h), apparent clearance CL/F = 11.7 L/h, apparent volume of distribution V/F = 401 L, combined proportional plus additive residual error (21.6% and 9.8 ng/mL), and inter-individual variability on CL/F only (33% CV). No demographic, clinical, or genetic covariates (sex, body weight, height, age, race, AST, ALT, HCV, HBV, comedications, CYP3A422, CYP3A53, CYP2C192, CYP2C1917, UGT1A128, UGT1A42) were retained in the final covariate model.
Risankizumab (Suleiman 2019) Two-compartment population PK model of risankizumab (anti-IL-23 mAb) with first-order SC absorption in healthy subjects and patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis (Suleiman 2019)
Risankizumab (Thakre 2022) Two-compartment population PK model of risankizumab (anti-IL-23 mAb) with first-order SC absorption in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (Thakre 2022)
Risperidone (Sherwin 2012) One-compartment parent-plus-metabolite population PK model for oral risperidone and its active metabolite (+/-)-9-hydroxyrisperidone in 45 children and adolescents (aged 3-18.3 years, 16.8-110 kg) with neuropsychiatric disorders treated with maintenance oral risperidone (Sherwin 2012). First-order absorption (Ka fixed) into a single central compartment with first-order elimination; the fraction of risperidone metabolized to (+/-)-9-hydroxyrisperidone (KF) feeds a single metabolite compartment whose apparent volume of distribution is set equal to the parent apparent volume per Table 2 footnote (a). A mixture model with three CYP2D6 metabolizer subpopulations (poor PM, intermediate IM, extensive EM) yields subpopulation-specific apparent oral clearances and metabolite formation fractions; KF in IM subjects is fixed at 1 to stabilize the model per the paper’s Mixture Model section. Allometric scaling (exponent 0.75 for CL/F and CLM/F, exponent 1 for Vd/F, reference 70 kg) is applied to all three subpopulations’ clearance estimates and to the shared apparent volume. Inter-individual variability is reported separately for each subpopulation’s CL/F (PM, IM, EM), for the metabolite CLM/F, and for the shared Vd/F; a combined additive-plus-proportional residual error is reported separately for risperidone and (+/-)-9-hydroxyrisperidone plasma concentrations.
Ritonavir (Kappelhoff 2005) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption, an absorption lag time, and first-order elimination for oral ritonavir in HIV-1-infected adults (186 patients, 1228 plasma concentrations; Kappelhoff 2005). Concomitant lopinavir is the only retained covariate and multiplies apparent oral clearance by 2.72-fold (power form: CL/F = exp(lcl) * 2.72^CONMED_LPV). Inter-individual variability on apparent CL/F, V/F, and ka, with correlated etas for V and ka (rho = 0.868). Residual error has a single 15.4% proportional component and a mixture-model additive component (subpopulation P1, 64.8% of subjects: 0.0600 mg/L; subpopulation P2, 35.2%: 0.199 mg/L), gated by the binary covariate MIX_LARGE_RUV. Interoccasion variability on apparent bioavailability (59.1% in the source) is not propagated – see the validation vignette Assumptions and deviations section.
Rituximab (Candelaria 2018) Two-compartment population PK model of rituximab (and its biosimilar RTXM83) with linear distribution and linear elimination from the central compartment in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with rituximab-CHOP or RTXM83-CHOP (Candelaria 2018; pooled-arm fit, all 5341 concentrations from both treatment arms)
Rivipansel (Tammara 2017) Three-compartment IV population PK model for rivipansel in adults and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD) and in healthy adult volunteers (Tammara 2017). Rivipansel is a pan-selectin antagonist given as a 20-minute IV infusion; renal excretion of unchanged drug is the primary clearance mechanism. The integrated population PK model pools 109 subjects across three phase I studies (rivipansel studies 101, 102, 103) and one phase II SCD study (NCT01119833, Telen 2015). Clearance is a power function of creatinine clearance (CRCL, raw Cockcroft-Gault mL/min reference 150) with an additive 23.4% shift in the phase II SCD cohort (STUDY_RIV201) attributed to glomerular hyperfiltration. The central, first peripheral, and second peripheral volumes share a single estimated body-weight exponent (0.569, reference 70 kg). The additive and proportional residual error magnitudes differ between the phase I and phase II cohorts and are selected per observation via STUDY_RIV201.
Rocatinlimab (Okada 2025) Two-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and time-dependent saturable (Michaelis-Menten) clearance and first-order subcutaneous absorption for rocatinlimab (anti-OX40 mAb) in adults; covariates body weight, albumin, plaque-psoriasis disease state, and healthy-volunteer cohort indicator (Okada 2025)
Roflumilast (Lahu 2010) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for oral roflumilast and its primary active metabolite roflumilast N-oxide in adult healthy volunteers and patients with moderate-to-severe COPD (Lahu 2010). Roflumilast is described by a two-compartment model with first-order absorption and a lag time; the absolute parent bioavailability is not identifiable and is fixed at F1 = 1. Roflumilast N-oxide is described by a one-compartment model with zero-order absorption (duration D1) and a lag time, with relative bioavailability Frel fixed at 1 for the null-covariate reference (also non-identifiable). Retained covariates on roflumilast parameters are food on tlag and ka, sex / smoking / race-Black / race-Hispanic / COPD on CL, and COPD on V1. Retained covariates on roflumilast N-oxide parameters are food on D1; age / sex / smoking / COPD on CL; body weight and COPD on Vd; and age / sex / race-Black / race-Hispanic on Frel. Inter-individual variability is reported on parent tlag, ka, CL, V1, Q, V2 (with a Q-V2 covariance) and on N-oxide D1, CL, Vd (with a full 3x3 covariance block); no IIV is reported on N-oxide tlag or on Frel. Residual error is proportional on the linear- concentration scale (additive on the log-transformed observation) for both observed analytes, fitted on the phase I dataset (the more data-rich layer).
Romiplostim (Petrov 2024) Population PK/PD model for romiplostim in adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). One-compartment first-order subcutaneous PK plus an Emax stimulation of platelet precursor production into a 4-transit-compartment Friberg-style chain feeding circulating platelets, with first-order platelet degradation. PK/PD backbone is the healthy-volunteer population PK/PD model (Makarenko 2024); ITP-specific platelet production (kin) and degradation (kdeg) constants and IIV(kdeg) come from Petrov 2024 supplement Table S1. Default parameters are non-splenectomized ITP patients with mechanism 1 (increased platelet degradation, normal precursor production); see vignette for the other 3 subpopulation variants (non-splenectomized mechanism 2; splenectomized mechanism 1; splenectomized mechanism 2).
Romiplostim (Wang 2010) Population PK/PD model for romiplostim in healthy subjects (Wang 2010 AAPS J). Pharmacodynamics-mediated drug disposition (PDMDD, a TMDD subtype) two-compartment quasi-equilibrium PK with first-order SC absorption, parallel linear (kel) and target-mediated (kint) elimination, coupled to a Krzyzanski-style cytokinetic precursor + platelet lifespan PD model with NP=10 megakaryocyte and NPLT=10 platelet age-compartments. Romiplostim free serum concentration stimulates platelet precursor production via a Hill function (Smax, SC50). The total c-Mpl receptor concentration is taken proportional to the circulating platelet count (Rtot = xi * PLT). Wang 2010 fit the model to MEAN PK and platelet-count data from 32 healthy subjects after single IV (0.3, 1, 10 ug/kg) or SC (0.1, 0.3, 1, 2 ug/kg) doses; no IIV was estimated (the population approach failed for this complex model).
Romosozumab (Stein 2018) Two-compartment QSS TMDD typical-value fit for romosozumab (anti-sclerostin mAb) used to illustrate the critical concentration (Ccrit) for nonlinear PK (Stein and Peletier 2018 Table 1)
Rosuvastatin (Barnett 2018) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption for a single 5 mg dose of rosuvastatin in healthy adult males (Barnett 2018), refit from the Tzeng 2008 structural form with simultaneous plasma + urine fitting. The model includes separable biliary (CLb,RSV) and renal (CLr,RSV) clearance components from the central compartment, competitive rifampicin OATP1B inhibition of the biliary clearance via KiRSV driven by the instantaneous plasma rifampicin concentration, and a binary RIF-coadministration covariate that captures paper-reported reductions of V1, V2, and Q during the rifampicin phase (Barnett 2018 Table 1: V1 430 -> 2.98 L, V2 865 -> 128 L, Q 45.3 -> 5.03 L/h on RIF). Companion to modellib(‘Barnett_2018_coproporphyrin_I’); both share the rifampicin perpetrator parameterisation in modellib(‘Barnett_2018_rifampicin’).
Rosuvastatin (Macpherson 2015) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption for rosuvastatin in pediatric patients (aged 6 to <18 years) with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (Macpherson 2015 Eur J Clin Pharmacol). Apparent clearance scales with body weight (estimated power exponent 0.352, reference 42 kg) and is 1.41-fold higher in males than females. Residual error is proportional and switches between intensive and sparse PK sampling phases.
Rosuvastatin mbma (Yang 2010) MBMA. Literature-based meta-analysis simple Emax dose-response model for percentage reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) from baseline in adult hypercholesterolemia patients receiving rosuvastatin. Operates at the study-arm level over 14 dose-ranging trials (46 study-arm-mean effect samples; 9 Western trials and 5 Asian trials, total N substantially larger than 46 because each arm pools many patients). Output Cc is the study-arm mean percent LDL-C reduction from baseline (unsigned: Cc = 50 means a 50 percent reduction). The placebo intercept E0 (-0.802 percent, a small expected LDL-C increase under placebo) and the Hill / sigmoidicity exponent (1) are fixed at the values used by the source paper – E0 from prior literature [Mandema 2005, ref 15] and gamma after the sigmoidal Emax fit produced unstable estimates. Race (Asian vs Western reference) is the only retained covariate and acts on ED50: ED50_Asian = ED50_Western * 0.564 (i.e. roughly twofold-lower ED50 in Asians). Between-trial variability is encoded as a single study-arm-level eta on the predicted output (SD 3.0 percent); residual error is additive (SD 3.1 percent). Baseline LDL-C was screened but not retained. Suitable simulation scope is study-arm-mean percent LDL-C reduction, NOT individual-subject LDL-C trajectories. The model also predicts only the steady-state effect (paper restricted to arms with at least 4 weeks of treatment).
Rucaparib (Wang 2015) Three-compartment IV population PK model coupled to a direct-effect Emax PK/PD model for inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP-1) activity in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) by rucaparib (AG-014699 / PF-01367338) in adult cancer patients (Wang 2015 Phase 1 study A4991002), with a power covariate effect of baseline PBL PARP activity on the residual maximum-inhibition parameter Emin.
Rwj416457 (Schmidt 2009) In vitro (Staphylococcus aureus MRSA strain OC2878). Mechanism-based PD model of bacterial-killing time-kill curves for RWJ-416457, an investigational oxazolidinone (Schmidt 2009). Susceptibility-based two-subpopulation structure: an active self-replicating susceptible pool with logistic carrying-capacity limit and a dormant persister pool that is insusceptible to killing; first-order S->P conversion (P->S held fixed at 0), natural-death loss from both pools, exponential turn-on of growth and of drug-induced killing, and Emax killing of the susceptible subpopulation by the antibiotic. Drug concentration in the Mueller-Hinton broth (MHB) declines first-order at the published 10%-over-24-h degradation rate; for dynamic syringe-replacement experiments the user adds the dilution-equivalent rate to kdeg via rxSolve(…, params = c(kdeg = )). The same joint fit is shared with Schmidt_2009_linezolid (only EC50 and kdeg differ).
S ketamine (Flint 2017) Joint two-compartment S-ketamine + one-compartment S-norketamine population PK model for continuous intravenous S-ketamine infusion during prolonged sedation in pediatric intensive care patients aged 0.02-12.5 years (Flint 2017). The parent S-ketamine has two-compartment disposition (CL = 112 L/h, V1 = 7.73 L, Q = 196 L/h, V2 = 545 L at 70 kg) and feeds the active metabolite S-norketamine, modelled as one apparent central compartment with Clsnk/Fm = 53.2 L/h and Vsnk/Fm = 1 L (fixed; Fm is not identifiable). Body weight is allometrically scaled with fixed exponents 0.75 for clearances and 1.0 for volumes referenced to 70 kg; time after the first S-ketamine dose acts as a linear positive multiplier on Clsnk (0.870 percent per hour), the only retained covariate at backward elimination.
Sacituzumab (Sathe 2024) Coupled three-analyte population PK model for sacituzumab govitecan (SG, the ADC; output Cc), free SN-38 (released payload; output Cc_sn38), and total antibody (tAB; output Cc_tab) in adults with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer and other solid tumors (Sathe 2024). All three analytes are described by two-compartment models with body-weight allometric scaling. SG carries IIV on CL and a baseline-albumin power covariate on CL. Free SN-38 is generated from SG by a first-order release rate KREL with apparent volumes fixed to literature values (Klein 2002). tAB has time-dependent CL (asymptotic onset, max ~17% reduction at t1/2 ~48 days), correlated IIV on CL and V1, and covariates of baseline albumin (CL), tumor type (CL), and sex (V1). Simulation requires dosing two compartments simultaneously (central and central_tab) for each SG infusion event.
SAL003 (Peng 2024) Two-compartment population PK model for SAL003, a novel anti-PCSK9 IgG4 monoclonal antibody, with first-order SC absorption (with lag time), saturable Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment, and a body-weight effect on central volume, in Chinese healthy volunteers and patients with hyperlipidemia (Peng 2024)
Salbutamol (Heuberger 2018) Semi-physiological PK simulation model for inhaled and oral salbutamol with its sulphate metabolite (S-SAL) in adult elite athletes. Eight compartments (gut, two-compartment parent disposition, parent plasma metabolite arm, cumulative parent urine, cumulative S-SAL urine, cumulative urine volume) with allometric scaling on disposition and physiological scaling on the cardiac-output-driven urine production rate, synthesised from literature (Auclair 2000 dog model, Morgan 1986 renal CL, Holt 1968 cardiac output, Moerkeberg 2009 haematocrit) and calibrated to Haase 2009 inhaled-salbutamol data (Heuberger 2018).
Sapropterin (Muntau 2017) One-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption, an absorption lag, linear elimination, and an additive endogenous BH4 baseline for sapropterin dihydrochloride in pediatric patients <4 years with BH4-responsive phenylketonuria or mild hyperphenylalaninemia (Muntau 2017 SPARK trial).
Sapropterin (Qi 2014) One-compartment population PK model with first-order oral absorption, an absorption lag, linear elimination, and an additive endogenous BH4 baseline for sapropterin dihydrochloride in pediatric and adult patients with phenylketonuria (Qi 2014).
Sarilumab (Xu 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for sarilumab in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Xu 2019), with first-order SC absorption and parallel linear plus Michaelis-Menten (target-mediated) elimination from the central compartment.
Sarilumab anc (Ma 2020) Indirect-response PopPK/PD model for absolute neutrophil count (ANC) following subcutaneous sarilumab in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Ma 2020). Sarilumab concentrations drive stimulation of ANC elimination (margination); PK backbone is Xu 2019.
Sarilumab das28crp (Ma 2020) Indirect-response PK/PD model of sarilumab on the 28-joint disease activity score by C-reactive protein (DAS28-CRP) in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Ma 2020). Sarilumab inhibits the DAS28-CRP production rate (kin) via a sigmoid emax function that includes a background DMARD placebo component (PLB). The PK driver is the two-compartment, parallel linear + Michaelis-Menten model of Xu 2019 evaluated at its typical covariate-reference values (adult female, 71 kg, ADA-negative, commercial drug product, ALBR = 0.78, CrCl = 100 mL/min/1.73 m^2, baseline CRP = 14.2 mg/L).
Selexipag (Krause 2017) Joint two-compartment parent + two-compartment metabolite population PK model for oral selexipag and its active metabolite ACT-333679 in adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (Krause 2017, GRIPHON study). First-order absorption with a fixed 0.668 h absorption lag delivers selexipag into a two-compartment disposition with linear total clearance CL/F (apparent total clearance, of which the rate constant kmet describes the fraction converted to ACT-333679); the metabolite has its own two-compartment disposition with first-order elimination via km. Body weight (allometric on V_p/F and CL/F; on V_m/F), total bilirubin (power on CL/F), sex (multiplicative on km), and a four-level PAH-comedication categorical (naive / ERA only / PDE5 inhibitor only / ERA + PDE5 combined; multiplicative on km) were retained as statistically significant covariates.
Selumetinib (Patel 2017) Sequential two-compartment population PK model for oral selumetinib (AZD6244, ARRY-142886) and its active metabolite N-desmethyl-selumetinib in adults with advanced solid tumors pooled with children with recurrent low-grade glioma (Patel 2017). Selumetinib disposition uses sequential zero-order (release into the gut compartment over duration D1 with lag ALAG1) and first-order (rate Ka) absorption with bioavailability anchored at 1 under fasted conditions and reduced by an additive food-effect coefficient under fed conditions; D1 and ALAG1 carry additive food-effect coefficients. Body surface area (power on CL/F and Vc/F), age (power on Vc/F), and alanine aminotransferase (negative power on CL/F) modify selumetinib parameters; BSA (negative power) modifies the fraction metabolized to N-desmethyl-selumetinib. The metabolite is two-compartment with its central volume fixed equal to the parent central volume to resolve identifiability; metabolite clearance and intercompartmental clearance are apparent values.
Semaglutide (Overgaard 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for subcutaneous semaglutide (GLP-1 receptor agonist) with first-order absorption and first-order elimination, pooled across nine clinical pharmacology trials in healthy volunteers and adults with type 2 diabetes (Overgaard 2019).
Sepantronium (Aoyama 2012) One-compartment IV population PK model for sepantronium bromide (YM155), a small-molecule survivin suppressant administered as a 7-day continuous IV infusion every 21 days, with power-form covariate effects of creatinine clearance and alanine aminotransferase and proportional cancer-type effects (hormone-refractory prostate cancer and melanoma vs non-small cell lung cancer) on clearance, in adults with NSCLC, HRPC, or unresectable stage III/IV melanoma (Aoyama 2012)
Sevoflurane (Shin 2014) Pharmacodynamic sigmoid Emax model for the probability of recovery of consciousness (ROC) vs end-tidal sevoflurane concentration (vol %) during emergence from general anesthesia in pediatric dental-surgery patients (Shin 2014). Mentality (intact vs severely mentally disabled, MENT_DISABLED) stratifies both the concentration at 50% probability of ROC (C50) and the Hill coefficient. NONMEM Bernoulli likelihood in the source paper; this implementation exposes the typical-value probability with a placeholder additive residual error (see vignette Assumptions and deviations).
Sglt qsp (Lu 2014) QSP. Mechanistic systems pharmacology model of renal glucose reabsorption by SGLT1 and SGLT2 along the proximal tubules in humans, with optional competitive inhibition by an SGLT2 inhibitor (calibrated to dapagliflozin; evaluated against canagliflozin). The proximal convoluted tubules (PCT) are divided into six sub-segments (PCT1-6, SGLT2-mediated reabsorption) and the proximal straight tubules into three (PST1-3, SGLT1-mediated). Filtrate drains into a urinary bladder. Plasma glucose (GLU, mmol/L) and plasma inhibitor (CINH, nmol/L) enter as time-varying regressors through glomerular filtration. Calibrated by hand-tuning in Berkeley Madonna v8.3.18 against the DeFronzo et al. (2013) urinary glucose excretion data; evaluated against Polidori et al. (2013), Mogensen (1971), and Wolf et al. (2009). 23 ODE states; no fitted IIV or residual error (typical-individual mechanism model fit to mean per-step data).
Sibutramine (Han 2015) Two-compartment population PK for the active mono-desmethyl metabolite M1 plus a one-compartment PK for the downstream di-desmethyl metabolite M2 of the appetite-suppressant prodrug sibutramine, combined with an asymptotic exposure-response weight-loss PD model in Korean obese adults with metabolic syndrome. Sibutramine is dosed orally and assumed to convert entirely to M1 during absorption; M1 is then metabolised entirely to M2 and M2 is the only elimination pathway. Drug effect inhibits the rate of weight gain via a sigmoid Emax function of the steady-state sum AUC of M1 and M2 (AUC_ss,sum, computed from the current daily dose and the individual M1 and M2 clearances). A constant placebo effect is acknowledged only in female subjects and scales with mean-normalised baseline BMI.
Sifalimumab (Narwal 2013) Two-compartment population PK model for sifalimumab (anti-IFN-alpha IgG1) in adult patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (Narwal 2013)
Sifalimumab (Zheng 2016) Two-compartment population PK model for sifalimumab (anti-IFN-alpha human IgG1 monoclonal antibody) in adults with systemic lupus erythematosus following repeat fixed intravenous doses (Zheng 2016).
Siltuximab (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for siltuximab in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Siltuximab (Nikanjam 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for siltuximab (anti-IL-6) in adults pooled across healthy volunteers and oncology cohorts including Castleman’s disease, smoldering multiple myeloma, and other tumor types (Nikanjam 2019)
Simvastatin (Jin 2014) Joint two-compartment population PK model for orally administered simvastatin (lactone parent) and its active metabolite simvastatin acid (open beta-hydroxyacid), describing atypical multiple-peak absorption via three parallel mixed zero-and-first-order absorption processes and non-equilibrium reversible interconversion between the two species (Jin 2014). The simvastatin lactone is delivered into three depot compartments with fractional bioavailabilities F1, F2, F3 (sum = 1) parameterised through two relative-bioavailability constants BA1 and BA2, each depot has its own first-order absorption rate constant Ka1, Ka2, Ka3, zero-order infusion duration D1, D2, D3, and absorption lag-times ALAG1 = 0, ALAG2, ALAG3, the lactone disposes via a 2-compartment system with apparent clearance CL and inter-compartmental clearance Q, the fraction FM of total parent CL is converted to simvastatin acid (V_acid central fixed at 1 L for identifiability), and a reverse clearance Q64 returns acid to the parent central compartment. Age, body weight, and height were tested as covariates and not retained in the final model. The source publication analysed data in molar units; this packaged model preserves that choice – doses are expressed in nmol and concentrations in nmol/L. The validation vignette demonstrates the standard milligram-to-nanomole conversion using the simvastatin lactone molecular weight.
Sirolimus (Golubovic 2019) Two-compartment population PK model for sirolimus in adult kidney transplant recipients on triple immunosuppressive therapy (sirolimus + mycophenolate mofetil + corticosteroids) developed from routine therapeutic-drug-monitoring trough data with the NONMEM informative-prior functionality (Golubovic 2019). Covariate effects on CL/F: aspartate aminotransferase greater than 37 IU/L as a binary indicator of elevated liver enzymes (-37 percent multiplicative effect via power form 0.63^AST_HIGH) and age as a linear-deviation effect on CL/F with reference age 44 years (coefficient -0.388 on AGE/44, reproducing the 49 percent CL/F decrease from age 16 to age 64 reported in the Discussion).
Sirolimus (Wu 2012) Two-compartment population PK model for oral sirolimus with saturable Michaelis-Menten absorption in patients with advanced cancer (Wu 2012). Hematocrit power covariate on apparent oral clearance.
Sirukumab (Xu 2011) Two-compartment population PK model for sirukumab (anti-IL-6 human IgG1 kappa monoclonal antibody, CNTO 136) in healthy adults following a single intravenous infusion, with first-order elimination from the central compartment and allometric body-weight scaling (Xu 2011).
SKL10406 (Park 2014) Two-compartment first-order oral absorption population PK with effect-compartment Emax PK-PD model for striatal serotonin transporter (SERT) occupancy by SKL10406 (a triple monoamine reuptake inhibitor candidate) in healthy adult volunteers (Park 2014; EME variant, Table 3)
Snake venom (Sanhajariya 2018) Exploratory population PK meta-analysis of snake venom in humans (Sanhajariya 2018): one-compartment model with zero-order input (duration D1 = 1 h, fixed) and first-order elimination, fit in NONMEM 7.2 to 218 timed venom concentrations from 145 snakebite patients pooled across 24 published case reports / series. Snake family (Elapidae vs Viperidae) modifies F1; Viperidae is the reference (F1 = 1, fixed). Authors describe the model as a preliminary prior for future snake-envenoming PK modelling; F1 also absorbs the large bite-to-bite variability in injected venom mass.
Sodium nitrite qsp (VegaVilla 2013) QSP. Mechanistic systems pharmacology model of the NO metabolome (nitrite, nitrate) and methemoglobin (MetHb) in healthy adults receiving a 48-hour intravenous infusion of sodium nitrite. Nine ODEs covering plasma/RBC/tissue nitrite and nitrate, MetHb, NO and methemoglobin reductase activity; nonlinear nitrite/nitrate renal clearance (linear slope), entero-salivary nitrate-to-nitrite recycling, and indirect-response stimulation of MetHb reductase. Time in minutes; amounts in umol; concentrations in umol/L.
Somatropin human (Thorsted 2016) Translational (allometrically-scaled rat-to-human) population PKPD model for recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH / somatropin) in growth-hormone-deficient adult males. Structural parameter values are derived from the Thorsted 2016 hypophysectomized-rat PKPD fit by allometric scaling to a 70 kg reference subject (Table 3 of the source paper): clearance terms (CL, Q) and Vmax with exponent 0.75; distribution volumes (Vc, Vp) with exponent 0.9 (the empirically-selected best-fit exponent for human i.v. data); first-order absorption rate constants (ka1, ka2) and kout with exponent -0.25; KM unscaled; Emax and EC50 unscaled. The s.c. absorption model is the corrected form (Table 3 / Figure 5): bioavailability of the ka2 path reduced from 0.833 (rat) to 0.500, and one transit compartment added to the ka1 path. The IGF-1 indirect response uses kin = kout * R0 with R0 fixed to 65 ng/mL (human population mean per Laursen 1996) and is driven directly by plasma rhGH (no effect-delay chain - the rat CPLAG chain is intentionally dropped for the human prediction). Bodyweight gain is not included in the human model. Variability is inherited from the rat PKPD fit; residual error is fixed at the values used for the human-simulation validation (Methods).
Somatropin rat (Thorsted 2016) Preclinical (hypophysectomized Sprague-Dawley rat). Mixed-effects PKPD model for recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH / somatropin) describing PK as a two-compartment model with parallel linear (CL) and Michaelis-Menten (Vmax, KM) elimination, parallel first-order subcutaneous absorption (ka1 direct path, ka2 delayed through one transit compartment, with bioavailabilities F1 and F2), an indirect response model for IGF-1 induction (stimulation of kin via a three-compartment effect-delay chain feeding an Emax/EC50 stimulation), and a linear bodyweight-gain model driven by IGF-1 above baseline. Reference rat body weight is 0.1 kg (100 g) and the allometric exponents (0.75 / 1.0) are fixed.
Sonidegib (Goel 2016) Two-compartment population PK model for sonidegib (LDE225) in healthy subjects and patients with advanced solid tumors with first-order absorption, lag time, linear elimination, and dose-dependent bioavailability (Goel 2016)
Sugemalimab (Wang 2024) Two-compartment population PK model with sigmoidal-emax time-varying clearance for intravenous sugemalimab (anti-PD-L1 IgG4) in adults with advanced solid tumours or lymphomas across nine Phase I-III trials (Wang 2024)
Sulfadoxine (Karunajeewa 2009) Population PK model for sulfadoxine (SDOX) and its primary N-acetylsulfadoxine (NASDOX) metabolite in 60 Papua New Guinean women (30 pregnant, second or third trimester; 30 age-matched nonpregnant controls) given a single oral 1,500 mg sulfadoxine / 75 mg pyrimethamine dose for intermittent presumptive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (Karunajeewa 2009). SDOX is described by first-order absorption (no lag) into a 2-compartment disposition with separate non-metabolic clearance CL/F (renal excretion) and metabolic formation clearance CLM/F that drains SDOX into a 1-compartment NASDOX disposition. NASDOX elimination clearance is fixed at 10 times the structural SDOX non-metabolic CL/F (rapid formation-rate-limited renal excretion of the metabolite, Bell 1985). Allometric scaling is applied to all apparent volumes (exponent 1) and all apparent clearances (exponent 0.75) at reference WT = 70 kg. Pregnancy is the only retained covariate, entering as an additive term on the structural SDOX non-metabolic CL/F (+0.0181 L/h/70 kg). The companion model for the co-administered pyrimethamine is shipped as ‘Karunajeewa_2009_pyrimethamine’ (separate NONMEM dataset, fit independently in the source publication).
SulfadoxinePyrimethamine (deKock 2017) Joint popPK model for the antimalarial fixed-dose combination of sulfadoxine (1500 mg) and pyrimethamine (75 mg) as intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy (IPTp) and after delivery in 98 women from Mali, Mozambique, Sudan, and Zambia (de Kock 2017). Sulfadoxine has 2-compartment disposition with first-order absorption; pyrimethamine has 3-compartment disposition with first-order absorption. Apparent volumes and flow rates are allometrically scaled with total body weight (exponents 1 and 0.75 respectively, reference WT = 60 kg). Whole-blood predictions are derived from plasma predictions using hematocrit and an estimated RBC-to-plasma partition ratio per drug. Pregnancy effects on apparent CL differ by drug: sulfadoxine uses a sigmoidal time-after-delivery effect (asymptotic -75.7%, T50 = 6.35 weeks, gamma = 4.90), while pyrimethamine uses a step contrast (+21.2% postpartum). Pyrimethamine apparent CL is additionally -20.2% in the Mozambique site. Residual country-specific scaling on the observed whole-blood concentrations is fitted with Mali as the reference.
SulfadoxinePyrimethamine (Odongo 2015) Joint popPK model for the antimalarial fixed-dose combination of sulfadoxine (1500 mg) and pyrimethamine (75 mg) administered as a single oral dose for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy (IPTp) in 34 non-pregnant and 87 pregnant Ugandan women dosed in the second trimester, of whom 78 were redosed in the third trimester (Odongo 2015). Each drug is described by a two-compartment model with first-order absorption and an absorption lag time, with bioavailability fixed at 1. Covariates on apparent CL/F (additive in L/h): pregnancy status (both drugs), serum albumin (sulfadoxine only), and subject age (pyrimethamine only). Covariates on apparent central volume V2/F (exponential per-unit): gestational age at dose (both drugs) and body weight (pyrimethamine only). Inter-individual variability is log-normal and is not estimated on V2/F or V3/F for sulfadoxine, nor on Q/F for pyrimethamine, in line with the paper’s over-parameterisation control.
Sumatriptan (Lee 2015) One-compartment population PK model for oral sumatriptan in healthy Korean male volunteers (Lee 2015): two parallel absorption routes (first-order absorption with lag time, and a transit-compartment chain with the Savic 2007 analytical input form) into a single central compartment with linear elimination. Captures the multiple-peaks absorption phenomenon reported in oral sumatriptan.
Sunitinib (Ait-Oudhia 2016) Joint population PK/PD model for sunitinib and its equipotent active metabolite SU12662 in adults with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) receiving 37.5 mg sunitinib PO QD. Parent drug and metabolite each follow a 2-compartment oral PK structure with first-order absorption; each oral sunitinib dose deposits Dose into the parent depot and fM * Dose (fM = 0.21 fixed, Houk 2009) into the SU12662 depot. The active free (unbound) drug concentration ACub = (1 - fb_D) * Cc + (1 - fb_M) * Cc_su12662 (fb_D = 0.9, fb_M = 0.95 fixed, free fractions 0.1 and 0.05) inhibits the zero-order production rate of plasma sVEGFR2, captured with an indirect-response model dsVEGFR2/dt = kin / (1 + alpha * INH) - kout * sVEGFR2 with INH = ACub / (kd + ACub) (kd = 4 ug/L fixed, Mendel 2003) and kin = R0 * kout. Tumor volume follows a first-order growth dTG/dt = kg * (1 - H(t)) * TG with kg derived from baseline tumor volume by kg = ln(2) / (114 * TG0^0.14) (Taouli 2005) and H(t) = Imax * dsVEGFR2 / (dsVEGFR2 + dIC50) with Imax = 1 fixed and dsVEGFR2 = R0 - sVEGFR2(t). The paper reports a significant covariate effect of the DCE-MRI volume-transfer constant Ktrans on dIC50 (power coefficient 2.12) but the cohort-median Ktrans required to centre that effect is not reported in the paper or supplements on disk; the effect is omitted from model() and documented in the vignette. A Cox-style time-to-tumor progression hazard h(t) = b0 * exp(b1 * dAUC24h_sVEGFR2) is described in the paper but evaluated post-simulation in the vignette, not encoded as an ODE.
Sunitinib irinotecan mouse (Wilson 2015) Preclinical (mouse with HT-29 colorectal-cancer xenograft). Mechanistic tumor-growth PD model for the antiangiogenic agent sunitinib (reduces vascular carrying capacity) combined with the cytotoxic agent irinotecan (three-stage transit-cell-death chain following Simeoni et al. 2004) and an empirical interaction term (Wilson 2015 Equation 4) in which the irinotecan transit-death rate kC depends on the cumulative pre-irinotecan sunitinib exposure. Drug input is K-PD (no pharmacokinetic data; each oral sunitinib or 5-min IV irinotecan dose enters its drug-amount compartment with normalized magnitude 1).
Tacrine (Holford 1992) Population pharmacodynamic disease-progression model for the cognitive subscale of the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS-cog, 0-70 score) in patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease treated with tacrine. Linear disease progression (baseline S0 + alpha*time) with a tacrine effect on the location of the progression curve (effect compartment driven by IBW-normalised daily dose rate, no estimable PK clearance because the response is slow relative to the 2-hour tacrine plasma half-life) and a placebo effect with asymmetric onset / elimination / tolerance dynamics (placebo response builds up during treatment, dissipates after treatment ends, and develops tolerance during continued treatment). Estimated by Holford and Peace 1992 on 909 patients (5253 ADAS-cog observations) pooled from two clinical trials of identical design: US protocol 970-01 (n = 632) and French protocol 970-04 (n = 277). The French cohort takes multiplicative scale factors on baseline status (FS04 = 1.08), placebo potency (Fpp4 = 1.76), and placebo elimination half-time (Ft1/2el-p4 = 2.78). Inter-individual variability is correlated across baseline S0, progression rate alpha, and tacrine potency beta_a (block of three) with diagonal IIV on placebo potency beta_p; the time constants of the effect compartments are typical-value only. Residual error is proportional. NOTE: the lead Holford 1992 PNAS 89:11471-11475 ‘Results and validation’ paper supplies all parameter values but the exact ODE form of the placebo dynamics is described in the companion methodology paper (PNAS 89:11466-11470) which was not available on disk at extraction time; the ODE form here is the field-standard reconstruction (asymmetric on/off placebo compartment plus multiplicative tolerance) and is documented in the validation vignette’s Assumptions and deviations section.
Tacrolimus (Andrews 2017) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and an absorption lag time for twice-daily oral immediate-release tacrolimus (Prograft and Modigraf) in paediatric renal transplant recipients during the first 6 weeks post-transplantation (Andrews 2017). Apparent oral clearance CL/F and apparent inter-compartmental clearance Q/F scale allometrically with body weight at a fixed exponent of 0.75 referenced to a 70 kg adult; apparent central volume V1/F and apparent peripheral volume V2/F scale at a fixed exponent of 1.0; ka has no body-weight scaling. CL/F additionally varies with CYP3A5 expresser status (1.04 multiplier for 3/3 or unknown genotype, 1.98 multiplier for 1/1 or 1/3 carriers; pooled with unknown because Andrews 2017 explicitly groups 3/3 with unknown in the final equation), donor source (0.74 multiplier for living-donor recipients vs deceased-donor reference; equivalent to deceased-donor recipients having ~35% higher CL/F), eGFR (power exponent 0.19 centred at the cohort median 69 mL/min/1.73 m^2 of adapted-Schwartz eGFR), and a piecewise hematocrit effect (power exponent -0.44 centred at 0.3 L/L applied only when HCT < 0.3 L/L). Inter-individual variability is diagonal on ka, CL/F, V1/F, and V2/F. Residual error is a combined additive + proportional model with separate immunoassay and LC-MS/MS magnitudes selected by the per-sample IMMUNOASSAY indicator. Inter-occasion variability (IOV) on CL/F (18% CV) and V2/F (35% CV) reported by Andrews 2017 Table 2 is NOT encoded structurally here (per the Brooks 2021 tacrolimus precedent) – the source paper does not define an operational occasion column for the model-library use case; downstream users who want to simulate IOV can add an OCC indicator and a per-occasion eta in rxode2.
Tacrolimus (Benkali 2010) Two-compartment population PK model with Erlang-distributed transit absorption (3 transit compartments) for once-daily extended-release oral tacrolimus (Advagraf) in stable adult renal transplant recipients more than 6 months post-transplant who were switched from twice-daily ciclosporin (Benkali 2010), with a multiplicative CYP3A5*1-carrier (expresser) effect on apparent clearance and combined additive + proportional residual error.
Tacrolimus (Bergmann 2014) Two-compartment population PK model for oral tacrolimus in adult kidney transplant recipients (Bergmann 2014), with first-order absorption after a lag time, allometric (WT/70 kg)^0.75 scaling on apparent clearance, multiplicative CYP3A5*1-carrier effect on CL/F, linear hematocrit and post-transplant-day effects on CL/F, linear free prednisolone Cmax effect on V1/F, correlated inter-individual variability across V1/F, ka, and V2/F, and proportional residual error.
Tacrolimus (Brooks 2021) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for IV continuous-infusion tacrolimus in pediatric and young adult patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (Brooks 2021). Allometric weight scaling on all PK parameters with fixed theoretic exponents (0.75 on CL and Q, 1.0 on V and V2; reference weight 70 kg); a structural ratio Fact fixed at 2.0 links Q to CL and V2 to V; and a multiplicative azole-antifungal (voriconazole or posaconazole) factor of 0.8 on CL captures the CYP3A4/5 inhibitor co-treatment effect.
Tacrolimus (Chen 2017) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and absorption lag for low-dose oral tacrolimus (FK506, Prograf 0.5 mg capsules) in Chinese adult and paediatric myasthenia-gravis (MG) patients (Chen 2017). The absorption parameters ka and tlag are fixed at values obtained from a supplementary dataset of healthy volunteers, because the sparse-trough MG dataset is not informative about the absorption phase. Apparent oral clearance CL/F (3.6 L/h typical) is modulated by hematocrit and blood urea nitrogen through a multiplicative power-of-covariate-ratio form referenced to cohort medians (HCT median 38.4 %, exponent 4.31; BUN median 4.2 mmol/L, exponent 1.42). Apparent volume V/F is 1700 L typical with no retained covariate effects (high-dose IV immunoglobulin treatment was tested as a covariate on V/F but did not survive backward elimination). Inter-individual variability is diagonal on CL/F (141.6% CV) and V/F (72.4% CV); no IIV is estimated on ka or tlag. Residual variability is a pure proportional model (35.8% CV) on whole-blood tacrolimus concentrations.
Tacrolimus (Dunlap 2025) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral immediate-release tacrolimus in adult allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (allo-HCT) recipients (Dunlap 2025): first-order absorption with bioavailability fixed at 1; allometric (TBW/70 kg) scaling fixed at 0.75 on CL/F and Q/F and at 1 on V1/F and V2/F; exponential CYP3A5 intermediate / normal metabolizer phenotype effect on CL/F (CYP3A5 IM or NM have ~2.14-fold higher CL/F than CYP3A5 PM); exponential reduced-intensity-conditioning effect on CL/F (RIC recipients have ~37% lower CL/F than myeloablative-conditioning recipients); inter-individual variability on V1/F, CL/F, and V2/F; and an additive residual error of 2.51 ng/mL on the linear concentration scale.
Tacrolimus (Grover 2011) Two-compartment population PK model for oral tacrolimus in adult Native American kidney transplant recipients (Grover 2011), with first-order absorption after a lag time, no covariate effects (the Native American cohort showed no association of age, sex, weight, BMI, or post-transplant duration with PK parameters), and a placeholder proportional residual error model (residual error was not reported in the short communication).
Tacrolimus (Hao 2018) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption (no lag) and first-order elimination for twice-daily oral immediate-release tacrolimus (Prograf) in paediatric nephrotic-syndrome patients aged 2.7-17.3 years (Hao 2018). Apparent oral clearance CL/F scales allometrically with body weight at a fixed exponent of 0.75 referenced to a 70 kg adult; apparent volume of distribution V/F scales linearly with body weight at a fixed exponent of 1.0 referenced to 70 kg; ka has no body-weight scaling. CL/F additionally varies with CYP3A5 expresser status (multiplicative factor 1.60 for 1/1 or 1/3 carriers vs the 3/3 nonexpresser reference). Inter-individual variability is diagonal on ka, V/F, and CL/F (exponential / log-normal model). Residual unexplained variability is proportional (paper text: ‘The proportional model best described residual variability’; Table 2 reports it under the ‘Residual variability (exponential)’ label, which is the standard NONMEM additive-on-log-scale parameterisation equivalent to proportional in linear space).
Tacrolimus (Ji 2018) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral tacrolimus in Korean adult living-donor liver-transplant recipients during the first 14 days post-transplantation (Ji 2018). First-order absorption with ka fixed at 4.48 1/h from prior reports; CL/F = 6.33 * POD^0.257 multiplied by a combinational CYP3A5 recipient-and-donor categorical factor (2.314 if both recipient and donor are CYP3A5 expressers; 1.523 if the recipient is a CYP3A5 expresser and the donor is a nonexpresser; 1.0 otherwise); V/F = 465 * POD^0.322; exponential IIV on CL/F and V/F; combined proportional + additive residual error on whole-blood tacrolimus concentration.
Tacrolimus (Kim 2018) Integrated population PK model of the tacrolimus (TAC) - mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) drug-drug interaction in healthy Korean male volunteers (Kim 2018, final integrated model). TAC follows a two-compartment model with first-order absorption and a lag time; apparent oral clearance (CL/F) is increased 1.48-fold in CYP3A5 expressers and is suppressed by co-administered mycophenolic acid (MPA) through an inverse-exponential interaction (CL/F = 13.8 / exp(0.0294Cmpa) 1.48^CYP3A5). MPA (the active moiety of MMF) follows a two-compartment model with first-order absorption; MPA is metabolised to MPAG (7-O-glucuronide; 85% of metabolism) and AcMPAG (acyl glucuronide; 15%). MPAG undergoes enterohepatic recirculation via a gallbladder compartment that empties into the MPA absorption compartment during a meal-triggered window. Tacrolimus concentrations are in ng/mL; MPA, MPAG and AcMPAG are in ug/mL.
Tacrolimus (Kirubakaran 2022) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral immediate-release tacrolimus (Prograf) in adult heart transplant recipients (Kirubakaran 2022): first-order absorption; FFM-allometric scaling on CL/F and Q/F (exponent 0.75) and on V2/F and V3/F (exponent 1.0); haematocrit power effect on CL/F; and a state-dependent typical CL/F (without vs with concomitant azole antifungal, 21.1 vs 4.2 L/h) with a state-dependent CL/F BSV magnitude (61% vs 89.5% CV). Structural PK was estimated with NONMEM PRIOR (NWPRI) support from the published Sikma 2017 thoracic-transplant tacrolimus popPK model.
Tacrolimus (Lu 2015) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and lag time for oral tacrolimus in pooled Chinese healthy volunteers and adult orthotopic liver-transplant recipients (Lu 2015). Apparent peripheral volume V3/F is fixed at the healthy-volunteer-only estimate (916 L). Apparent clearance CL/F is reduced multiplicatively in liver-transplant recipients and further modulated by an exponential serum ALT effect that applies only to the transplant cohort.
Tacrolimus (Moes 2016) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral once-daily tacrolimus (Advagraf) in stable adult liver transplant recipients (Moes 2016), with first-order elimination from the central compartment and a delayed first-order absorption phase described by three sequential transit compartments sharing the absorption rate constant ka, a fixed oral bioavailability F = 0.23, a categorical donor + recipient CYP3A53 combination effect on apparent oral clearance (reference both nonexpressers; donor nonexpresser + recipient 1 carrier +33%; donor 1 carrier + recipient nonexpresser +33%; both 1 carriers +71%), independent log-normal IIV on CL, Vc, and ka, and proportional residual error on whole-blood concentration.
Tacrolimus (Passey 2011) Steady-state apparent-clearance regression model for oral tacrolimus trough concentrations in adult kidney-transplant recipients (Passey 2011). Encoded as a 1-compartment IV continuous-infusion model with a nominal fixed central volume of distribution: at steady state, Cc = dose-rate / CL/F is independent of V, so the rxode2 simulation reproduces the paper’s regression-style trough prediction. Apparent clearance CL/F is multiplied by five covariate factors: an ordered-categorical days-post-transplant effect (3-5 = reference, 6-10 = 0.86, 11-180 = 0.71), three-level CYP3A5 genotype (CYP3A53/3 = reference, CYP3A51/3 = 1.70, CYP3A51/1 = 2.00), steroid-sparing immunosuppression protocol (0.70), a power-form age effect ((Age/50)^-0.40), and concomitant calcium channel blocker coadministration (0.94).
Tacrolimus (Prytula 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and a fixed absorption lag time for twice-daily oral tacrolimus (Prograft) in stable paediatric renal transplant recipients at least one year after kidney transplantation (Prytula 2016). All apparent-PK parameters (CL/F, Q/F, V1/F, V2/F, ka) scale allometrically with body weight at fixed exponents (0.75 on CL/F and Q/F, 1 on V1/F and V2/F, -0.25 on ka) referenced to a 70 kg adult; V2/F is fixed at 1090 L/70 kg during covariate analysis; CL/F additionally varies with CYP3A51 carrier status (1+0.45-fold higher in carriers vs 3/3 nonexpressers), gamma-glutamyltransferase (power -0.21, centred at 13 U/L), and haematocrit (power -0.59, centred at 0.34); eta_Q is perfectly correlated with eta_CL and is constructed as iiv_q_scale etalcl (iiv_q_scale = 2.0; the ‘IIV-CL-Q’ parameter in Table 2); inter-individual variability is a 3x3 correlated block on (ka, CL/F, V1/F); proportional residual error.
Tacrolimus (Rower 2017) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral / enteral tacrolimus in paediatric heart transplant recipients (Rower 2017): first-order absorption with fixed Ka = 3.43 1/h; AGE power effect on apparent volume with exponent 0.775 and reference 5.7 years; creatinine-clearance power effect on apparent elimination rate with exponent 0.850 and reference 122.4 mL/min/1.73 m^2; concomitant fluconazole reduces apparent elimination by 34%. Originally parameterised in NONMEM ADVAN2 TRANS1 on (ke, V); converted here to the canonical (CL/F, V/F) form via CL/F = ke * V, so the AGE effect propagates to CL/F with the same exponent as on V/F.
Tacrolimus (Storset 2014) Theory-based two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral tacrolimus in adult kidney-transplant recipients (Storset 2014): plasma-based disposition with first-order absorption and a lag time, allometric scaling on fat-free mass, CYP3A5-expresser effects on plasma clearance and oral bioavailability, a sigmoid-Emax prednisolone-driven reduction in bioavailability, a first-day-post-transplant bioavailability spike with subject-level random effect, and a saturable haematocrit-dependent red-blood-cell-binding equation that maps plasma concentration to whole-blood concentration.
Tacrolimus (Woillard 2011) Two-compartment population PK model with Erlang-distributed transit absorption (3 transit compartments) for oral tacrolimus in adult renal transplant recipients pooled across the twice-daily immediate-release Prograf formulation and the once-daily prolonged-release Advagraf formulation (Woillard 2011), with multiplicative CYP3A5*1-carrier (expresser) and power-scaled haematocrit effects on apparent clearance, multiplicative formulation effects on the Erlang transit rate constant and on apparent central volume, and combined additive plus proportional residual error.
Tacrolimus (Zhu 2014) Two-compartment population PK model for oral tacrolimus in Chinese adult liver transplant recipients (Zhu 2014), with first-order absorption, a power-form joint DOSE x POD covariate effect on apparent clearance, log-normal IIV on CL/F, V2/F, Q/F, V3/F, and ka, and proportional residual error. Bioavailability was not estimated; the structural disposition parameters are apparent values (CL/F, V/F, Q/F).
Tacrolimus industry meta (Lu 2019) Industry meta-analysis. Two-compartment population PK model for oral tacrolimus immediate-release (IR-T; Prograf, twice daily) and prolonged-release (PR-T; Advagraf / Astagraf XL, once daily) formulations in adult and paediatric liver, kidney, and heart transplant recipients (Lu 2019). Pooled individual-patient data from 8 Astellas Phase II studies (n = 408 patients, 23,176 whole-blood concentration records). Structural model: first-order absorption with formulation-dependent Ka (PR-T ~50% slower than IR-T), fixed absorption lag time, and two-compartment disposition with first-order elimination. Significant covariates: Asian race on CL/F (+59% vs Whites); log-AST on CL/F, Vc/F, Vp/F, and F1 (power normalised at LAST = 3.15, i.e., AST ~= 23.3 IU/L); female sex on Vc/F (-44.6% vs males); albumin on Vc/F and F1; and Asian / Black race on F1 (Asians > Whites > Blacks). Type of organ transplanted and adult-vs-paediatric population had no significant effect on PK parameters.
Tacrolimus metaanalysis (Nanga 2019) MBMA. Two-compartment population PK meta-model for oral tacrolimus in solid organ transplantation (Nanga 2019), built from pooled individual-patient data across 7 historical NONMEM datasets (n = 281 paediatric + adult liver and kidney transplant recipients). Structural model: first-order absorption with fixed lag time, time-varying first-order elimination, allometric (WT/50 kg) scaling on apparent clearance and apparent central volume, multiplicative reduction of CL/F in hepatic-graft recipients, sigmoidal post-transplant-day recovery of CL/F, and reduced relative bioavailability for the oral syrup formulation. The literature-review summary table (Nanga 2019 Table 2: 76 published popPK models) is not used for parameter fitting and is not reproduced here.
Tacrolimus thoracic (Sikma 2020) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral whole-blood tacrolimus in 30 adult thoracic organ transplant recipients (10 heart, 20 lung) during the first 6 postoperative days at the University Medical Center Utrecht intensive care unit (Sikma 2020 EJDMP). Apparent clearance CL/F, apparent volumes V1/F and V2/F, inter-compartmental clearance Q/F, and first-order absorption rate ka are estimated; bioavailability F is fixed at 1. Only the inter-individual variability of CL/F was identifiable in the source dataset; all other IIV elements were not estimated. Inter-occasion (dose-to-dose) variability dominated the variance structure but is not encoded structurally in this extraction. No covariates were retained in the final model.
Tacrolimus unbound plasma (Sikma 2020) Two-compartment population PK model for whole-blood (Cc), unbound plasma (Cupc), and total plasma (Ctpc) tacrolimus in 30 adult thoracic-organ (10 heart + 20 lung) transplant recipients during the first 6 postoperative days (Sikma 2020). First-order oral absorption with ka, F, and the within-PK fixed-parameter variabilities inherited from a previously estimated tacrolimus model; non-linear saturable binding of tacrolimus to erythrocytes (UPC = WBC * Kd / (Bmax * HCT - WBC)) with the maximum erythrocyte binding capacity Bmax scaled by hematocrit, and a linear non-specific plasma binding constant Nplasma linking unbound to total plasma (TPC = Nplasma * UPC).
Tafenoquine (Charles 2007) One-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for oral tafenoquine in adult Australian soldiers on weekly malaria prophylaxis (Charles 2007)
Tafenoquine (Edstein 2001) One-compartment population PK model for oral tafenoquine in 135 male Thai soldiers receiving 400 mg base for malaria prophylaxis (monthly n=104 or weekly n=31). The final model carries correlated IIV on apparent clearance and apparent volume of distribution (rho ~ 0.71) plus separate IIV on the first-order absorption rate constant; no covariates retained (centred age and weight on V/F and a prior-malaria indicator on CL/F were screened but not deemed to have sufficient clinical impact to alter the base model).
Taranabant (Li 2010) Three-compartment population PK model for oral taranabant in healthy and obese adults (Li 2010)
Taspoglutide mbma (Li 2015) MBMA. Coupled PD model-based meta-analysis of taspoglutide (long-acting human glucagon-like peptide-1 analogue, once-weekly SC) net efficacy on fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in type 2 diabetes. Each endpoint is the sum of an exponential-to-asymptote placebo response (Pmax, Kp) and a saturable Emax drug response (Dmax, IC50, Kdrug) approached exponentially over time. The FPG drug effect is driven by the study-arm-mean taspoglutide concentration between weeks 2 and 4 (Cavg; supplied as the METRIC_TASPO_C covariate: 0 / 59.85 / 119.7 pmol/L for placebo / 10 mg / 20 mg QW). The HbA1c drug effect is driven by the model-predicted drug-induced FPG change (i.e. the placebo-adjusted FPG response feeds the HbA1c Emax). Estimated on digitised study-arm-mean PD data from 8 published clinical trials of taspoglutide monotherapy or add-on therapy in type 2 diabetes (3,702 patients pooled, 8-52 week treatment durations); a ninth trial (Rosenstock 2013) was held out for external validation. Placebo Pmax and Kp were fitted on the placebo-only subset first and held fixed in the final combined PD model. Between-trial variability (ITV) is encoded as study-level etas (one eta per parameter); the model is suitable for simulating study-arm-mean PD outcomes and is NOT suitable for individual-subject simulation. Residual error is a proportional/power model on each endpoint (the small power-correction term is simplified to a plain proportional error in this implementation; see vignette Assumptions and deviations).
Taurine rat (Catalan-Latorre 2018) Preclinical (rat). Population PK model for taurine (2-aminoethylsulphonic acid) in male Wistar rats after IV bolus or oral gavage administration (1, 10, or 100 mg per animal). Two-compartment disposition (central and peripheral1) with zero-order endogenous formation Q0, first-order passive oral absorption ka, first-order inter-compartmental distribution (K12, K21), and non-linear renal elimination described as two parallel Michaelis-Menten processes: saturable tubular secretion (Vms, Kms) and saturable tubular reabsorption (Vmr, Kmr), with net elimination = secretion - reabsorption. Oral bioavailability was modelled as 100% (passive diffusion; not altered by nutritional status). Protein-energy undernutrition (MAL_NOURISH = 1) reduces the secretion Vmax by 9.4% relative to well-nourished animals; no other PK parameter depends on nutritional status. Initial conditions in the central and peripheral compartments are set from the analytic positive root of the no-dose steady-state quadratic so that the endogenous taurine concentration is reproduced at t = 0.
Tazobactam (CohenWolkowiez 2014) One-compartment population PK model for tazobactam in premature and term infants under 61 days postnatal age (Cohen-Wolkowiez 2014); linear body-weight scaling on CL and V (fixed exponent = 1), and PMA, serum creatinine and concomitant gentamicin coadministration as covariates on CL.
Tazobactam (Nichols 2016) One-compartment population PK model for tazobactam in critically ill children (1-9 years) receiving extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam (Nichols 2016); IV zero-order input, first-order elimination, a multiplicative female-sex effect on CL, and a linear-additive WT effect on CL centered at the cohort median 18 kg.
Tefibazumab (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for tefibazumab in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Temozolomide (Mazzocco 2015) Tumour growth inhibition (TGI) model for low-grade glioma (LGG) treated with first-line temozolomide chemotherapy (Mazzocco 2015): three tumour-tissue compartments (proliferative, non-damaged quiescent, damaged quiescent) coupled to a K-PD virtual drug compartment, with logistic proliferative growth (carrying capacity K fixed at 100 mm), treatment-induced damage of both proliferative and quiescent tissues, time-dependent acquired resistance of the proliferative tissue only, and tumour-genotype covariate effects of TP53 mutation status on TMZ efficacy and 1p/19q codeletion status on the damaged-quiescent-to-proliferative repair rate. Observation is mean tumour diameter (MTD = P + Q + Qp) in millimetres.
Tenofovir (Baheti 2011) Two-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for plasma tenofovir (TFV) in HIV-1-infected adults on once-daily tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) coupled with a stimulatory indirect-response (Dayneka 1993) model for intracellular tenofovir diphosphate (TFV-DP) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells; plasma TFV drives TFV-DP formation through a sigmoidal Emax stimulation function. Creatinine clearance enters CL/F and Vc/F via a power covariate. Fitted sequentially (PK first, PD with PK individual post-hoc Bayes estimates fixed).
Tenofovir combined (Lu 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and an absorption lag time for tenofovir (300 mg oral TDF once daily) in HIV-1-uninfected African adults receiving once-daily preexposure prophylaxis (Lu 2016, Partners PrEP Study). Combined variant: parameters estimated using a combined data set in which patient-reported dosing records were replaced with MEMS electronic adherence monitoring records where available. Absorption rate constant Ka is fixed at 1.5 /h; absorption lag time ALAG1 = 0.41 h. Apparent oral clearance (CL/F) carries a power-form covariate effect on creatinine clearance (raw Cockcroft-Gault, mL/min) centred at the cohort mean 106 mL/min. Diagonal IIV on CL/F, V1/F, and Ka; combined additive + proportional residual error.
Tenofovir emtricitabine (Chen 2016) Linked population PKPD model for daily oral co-administered tenofovir (TFV, given as the prodrug TDF 300 mg = TFV 136 mg) and emtricitabine (FTC 200 mg) in HIV-positive and HIV-negative adults (Chen 2016 Cell-PrEP study). Each parent drug is described by a two-compartment first-order-absorption plasma popPK model. Each parent feeds a hybrid first-order-formation + saturation link into its intracellular triphosphate anabolite in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (TFV-DP, FTC-TP), modelled with a two-compartment ‘recycle’ elimination structure where a fraction R of the eliminated drug re-enters the central intracellular compartment. Each anabolite inhibits the zero-order production rate of two endogenous deoxynucleoside triphosphates via an Emax indirect-response model with Kout fixed to 1/day and Emax fixed to 1: TFV-DP inhibits dATP and dGTP (deoxypurines); FTC-TP inhibits dCTP and TTP (deoxypyrimidines). The dGTP effect waned over time and is described by an additional 1/(1+t^gamma) time factor. Sex is a covariate on FTC plasma Vc/F and HIV-infection status is a covariate on FTC-TP Kf. Intended for simulating analog:dNTP molar ratios (TFV-DP:dATP, FTC-TP:dCTP) for various dosing strategies, e.g., the IPERGAY on-demand PrEP regimen.
Tenofovir prdi (Lu 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for tenofovir (300 mg oral TDF once daily) in HIV-1-uninfected African adults receiving once-daily preexposure prophylaxis (Lu 2016, Partners PrEP Study). PRDI variant: parameters estimated using patient-reported dosing information with a steady-state assumption. Apparent oral clearance (CL/F) carries a power-form covariate effect on creatinine clearance (raw Cockcroft-Gault, mL/min) centred at the cohort median 106 mL/min. Diagonal IIV on CL/F only; combined additive + proportional residual error.
Tesofensine (Lehr 2010) Joint parent (tesofensine) + metabolite (M1, CYP3A4-formed) population PK and effect-compartment PK/PD model in mild Alzheimer’s disease (Lehr 2010 Phase IIa fit; 62 patients across two 4-week placebo-controlled studies). Parent is one-compartment with first-order absorption (ka FIXED from upstream Phase I popPK) and parallel elimination through a metabolite-formation arm (CL_met = parent -> M1 flux) and a non-formation arm (CL_non-met = elimination via routes other than M1 formation). M1 is one-compartment with apparent volume FIXED at 0.768-fold of the parent apparent volume (mouse-derived ratio, Lehr 2010 ref 17). Tesofensine and M1 each drive their own effect compartment (shared keo FIXED at a small value, equivalent to a long effect-equilibration half-life); the combined drug effect on ADAS-Cog uses an extended Emax with competitive interaction in which the M1 effect-compartment concentration is divided by 5 to reflect the in-vivo M1 potency one-fifth that of the parent (Lehr 2010 Methods, ref 17). The ADAS-Cog observation equals the sum of drug, placebo, and disease-progression contributions (change from each subject’s baseline). The placebo bi-exponential model (onset rate keq, offset rate kel_pla, scaling beta_pla) is fully FIXED to literature values from a published large-AD-cohort placebo model (Lehr 2010 ref 34); the linear disease-progression slope is FIXED at 6 ADAS-Cog points/year (Lehr 2010 ref 26). Emax is negative (a clinically meaningful ADAS-Cog improvement is a score reduction); the sign is applied inside model() while |Emax| is the ini-scale magnitude carried with multiplicative IIV.
TF 505 (Matsumoto 2005) Two-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for the oral 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor TF-505 coupled to an indirect-response PD model for plasma dihydrotestosterone (DHT, expressed as percent of basal) in which the DHT synthesis rate kin is modulated by a 24-h circadian cosine; fit to single- and multiple-dose data from healthy adult male Japanese volunteers (Matsumoto 2005).
Theophylline (Rovei 1982) One-compartment oral PK model for theophylline tablets (Rovei 1982): first-order absorption with lag time in healthy adult volunteers across single oral doses of 125-500 mg.
Theophylline (Suda 2008) Steady-state population PK model for oral theophylline in 52 Japanese premature neonates and infants with apnea (Suda 2008). One-compartment first-order absorption structure; oral clearance CL/F is the only structural parameter the paper estimates (steady-state trough analysis Css = R / CL/F). Body-weight allometric scaling and a binary indicator for the Apnecut formulation (vs the in-house theophylline-alcohol comparator) on CL/F.
Ticagrelor (Almquist 2016) Preclinical (mouse, C57Bl/6 male). Mechanistic interaction PK model for ticagrelor, its active metabolite (TAM, AR-C124910XX), and the ticagrelor-neutralising Fab antibody fragment MEDI2452 in mouse (Almquist 2016). Three-compartment disposition for ticagrelor and TAM (shared plasma V, tissue V1, V2; V1 in instantaneous equilibrium with V); MEDI2452 lives in plasma V only and reversibly binds the free fractions of ticagrelor and TAM with rate kon and dissociation constant Kd; both free MEDI2452 and the two MEDI2452-drug complexes are eliminated together at the Fab clearance Cl_f (no recycling). Naive-pooled fit (no IIV); multiplicative log-normal residual error on five plasma assays.
Tisagenlecleucel (Stein 2019) Cellular kinetic model for tisagenlecleucel CAR-T cells in pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Stein 2019). Single-infusion expansion-then-biexponential-decline analytical model: transgene levels grow exponentially at rate rho up to Tmax, after which effector cells decline at rate alpha and a fraction FB transitions to memory cells declining at rate beta.
Tislelizumab (Budha 2023) Three-compartment population PK model for intravenous tislelizumab (anti-PD-1 IgG4) in patients with advanced tumors (Budha 2023)
Tobra (Hennig 2013) Two-compartment intravenous population PK model for tobramycin in adults and children with and without cystic fibrosis (Hennig 2013); fat-free mass allometric scaling on CL/Q (estimated exponent) and on V1/V2 (linear), sex-specific reference CL and V1, piecewise-linear age effect on CL with breakpoint at 18 years, and a power effect of the SCR_mean/SCR ratio on CL.
Tobramycin (Hennig 2008) Two-compartment population PK model for once-daily IV tobramycin in paediatric cystic fibrosis patients (Hennig 2008), with allometric weight scaling on CL, Q, Vc, and Vper (reference 70 kg, exponent 3/4 for clearances and 1 for volumes), full-block correlated between-subject variability on CL/Vc/Vper, a fixed 30 min infusion duration into the central compartment, and an estimated lag time between infusion start and drug entry into the patient’s vein.
Tobramycin (Livio 2014) One-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption for systemic tobramycin released from an implanted calcium-sulfate bone-graft substitute (Osteoset T) in adults undergoing orthopedic surgery (Livio 2014); clearance equated to Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance under the assumption that absorbed tobramycin is exclusively eliminated by glomerular filtration, and absolute bioavailability differing between the 10 g (262 mg tobramycin) and 20 g (524 mg tobramycin) Osteoset T cast cohorts.
Tobramycin inhaled (Ting 2014) Two-compartment population PK model for inhaled tobramycin powder (TIP / TOBI Podhaler) in cystic fibrosis patients (Ting 2014), with first-order absorption from a depot compartment and apparent (post-bioavailability) clearance and volumes. Body mass index (BMI) and baseline FEV1 percent-predicted are power-form covariates on apparent central volume of distribution (reference 18.8 kg/m^2 and 62.1 % respectively).
Tobramycin rat conventional (Marier 2002) Preclinical (rat). Two-compartment population PK model for the conventional (non-liposomal) formulation of tobramycin (Tobi inhalation solution, PathoGenesis) after a single 1,200 ug intratracheal dose to male Sprague-Dawley rats with chronic Burkholderia cepacia (strain BC 1368) pulmonary infection. NONMEM ADVAN4 (depot, central, peripheral) parameterised in rate-constant form: first-order absorption ka into a lung central compartment carrying drug amount (not concentration – volumes of distribution were not fitted because the dependent variable was the amount of tobramycin recovered from homogenised lung tissue, calculated as the measured tissue concentration times the lung volume per animal), inter-compartmental rate constants k12 and k21 between central and peripheral, first- order elimination kel from central, and a fitted lung bioavailability FL accounting for the fraction of the intratracheal dose actually reaching the lung tissue compartment. Comparator arm for Marier_2002_tobramycin_rat_liposomal; the conventional formulation shows faster absorption, faster elimination, and ~8-fold lower lung AUC than the liposomal formulation in the source paper (Table 1, Results).
Tobramycin rat liposomal (Marier 2002) Preclinical (rat). Two-compartment population PK model for the liposomal formulation of tobramycin (DPPC:DMPG 10:1 phospholipids, 230-400 nm extruded) after a single 1,200 ug intratracheal dose to male Sprague-Dawley rats with chronic Burkholderia cepacia (strain BC 1368) pulmonary infection. NONMEM ADVAN4 (depot, central, peripheral) parameterised in rate- constant form: first-order absorption ka into a lung central compartment carrying drug amount (not concentration – volumes of distribution were not fitted because the dependent variable was the amount of tobramycin recovered from homogenised lung tissue, calculated as the measured tissue concentration times the lung volume per animal), inter-compartmental rate constants k12 and k21 between central and peripheral, first-order elimination kel from central, and a fitted lung bioavailability FL accounting for the fraction of the intratracheal dose actually reaching the lung tissue compartment.
Tocilizumab (Bastida 2018) One-compartment population PK model for intravenous tocilizumab in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Bastida 2018), with parallel first-order linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment; total body weight and time-varying C-reactive protein on linear CL.
Tocilizumab (Frey 2010) Two-compartment population PK model for tocilizumab in adults with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (Frey 2010), with parallel first-order linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment.
Tocilizumab (Frey 2013) Indirect-response PK/PD model of tocilizumab on the 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28) in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Levi/Grange/Frey 2013, OPTION + TOWARD phase III pool, n = 1703 patients with 12,618 DAS28 observations). Tocilizumab inhibits the DAS28 production rate kin via a sigmoid emax function whose driving concentration is the sum of circulating tocilizumab and a constant DMARD background term expressed in tocilizumab concentration units. The PK driver is the two-compartment, parallel linear + Michaelis-Menten model of Frey 2010 (PMID 20097931), reused unchanged for the exposure-response analysis.
Tolcapone fluctuators (Jorga 2000) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption (no lag) for tolcapone in parkinsonian patients with fluctuating levodopa response, with effects of lean body weight and serum protein on clearance, lean body weight and dose group on central volume, serum albumin and dose group on peripheral volume, and concomitant food on bioavailability (Jorga 2000, fluctuator dataset, n=215)
Tolcapone nonfluctuators (Jorga 2000) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and absorption lag for tolcapone in parkinsonian patients with stable (non-fluctuating) levodopa response, with effects of creatinine clearance on clearance, serum protein on central volume, and concomitant food on bioavailability (Jorga 2000, nonfluctuator dataset, n=60)
Topotecan (Roberts 2016) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for oral topotecan lactone in infants and very young children with primary central nervous system tumours (Roberts 2016). First-order absorption into a depot compartment is followed by first-order elimination from a central compartment. Apparent volume of distribution (V/F) and apparent clearance (CL/F) are scaled by body surface area as power functions centred on the cohort median (0.57 m^2); the ABCG2 rs4148157 G>A variant (heterozygous AG or homozygous AA carriers pooled vs the GG reference) carries an exponential covariate effect on the absorption rate constant Ka, yielding an approximately 2-fold higher Ka in carriers than in GG homozygotes.
Torsemide (Jeong 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for oral torsemide in healthy Korean adult males (Jeong 2022), with first-order absorption after a lag time, proportional residual error, and categorical genotype covariates: OATP1B1 *15 haplotype (intermediate / poor transporter) reduces apparent central volume, and CYP2C9 extensive-metabolizer phenotype increases apparent oral clearance and apparent inter-compartmental clearance.
Tralokinumab (Soehoel 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for tralokinumab (Soehoel 2022) in adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, with SC first-order absorption and allometric body-weight effects.
TranexamicAcid (Dunn 2025) Two-compartment population PK model for tranexamic acid (TXA) with parallel first-order intramuscular and first-order oral absorption (oral lag time) and first-order elimination, in pregnant individuals receiving IV, IM, or oral TXA for prevention or treatment of postpartum hemorrhage (Dunn 2025).
Trastuzumab (Bruno 2005) Two-compartment linear population PK model for intravenous trastuzumab in adults with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC) or advanced solid tumors; covariate effects of number of metastatic sites (>= 4) and baseline HER2 shed extracellular domain (ECD) on clearance, and body weight and ECD on central volume (Bruno 2005, first published trastuzumab popPK).
Trastuzumab (LeTilly 2021) Two-compartment serum/CSF population PK model for trastuzumab after intrathecal and intravenous administration in adults with HER2+ breast cancer leptomeningeal metastases (Le Tilly 2021); zero-order serum-to-CSF transfer plus first-order CSF-to-serum return, with a Friberg-style chain of latent target (HER2) transit compartments and irreversible binding-driven elimination of trastuzumab in the CSF compartment.
Trastuzumab (Quartino 2016) Two-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten nonlinear elimination from the central compartment and first-order subcutaneous absorption (with bioavailability) for trastuzumab (Herceptin) administered IV or as a fixed 600 mg manual-syringe SC dose in women with HER2-positive early breast cancer; covariates body weight (on CL, Vc, Vp) and ALT (on CL) (Quartino 2016, HannaH study)
Trastuzumab (Quartino 2019) Two-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten nonlinear elimination from the central compartment for intravenous trastuzumab (Herceptin) in patients with metastatic breast cancer, early breast cancer, advanced gastric cancer, or other solid tumors (Quartino 2019)
Trastuzumab (Reijers 2016) Three-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten nonlinear elimination from the central compartment for intravenous trastuzumab in healthy male volunteers from a phase I biosimilarity trial of the FTMB biosimilar vs Herceptin reference product (Reijers 2016, combined model on all dose levels 0.49-6.44 mg/kg); covariates are lean body mass on central volume of distribution V1 and BMI on the linear elimination rate constant ke.
Trastuzumab LVEF (deVriesSchultink 2018) Effect-compartment PD model for left-ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) decline during adjuvant trastuzumab treatment in HER2-positive early breast cancer (de Vries Schultink 2018). Trastuzumab pharmacokinetics are an inlined deterministic forcing function from the previously published Bruno 2005 two-compartment linear popPK (de Vries Schultink 2018 Methods: ‘The trastuzumab PK profiles were obtained using fixed effect parameters from a previously published PK model for HER2-positive breast cancer patients [18]’); typical population values plus WT / HER2_ECD / MET_GE4 covariate effects are retained from Bruno 2005 Table 3. Cardiac damage is generated by cumulative trastuzumab concentration via an effect compartment Ceff that integrates plasma Ctrastuzumab and decays at rate log(2)/T1/2rec; LVEF declines through a sigmoid Emax expression LVEF = LVEF0 * (1 - Ceff / (Ceff + EC50)), and the EC50 is modulated by the per-subject peak post-anthracycline troponin T (TROPONIN_T_MAX), with a higher TROPONIN_T_MAX lowering EC50 and increasing sensitivity to trastuzumab-induced cardiotoxic decline. Companion file deVriesSchultink_2018_anthracycline_troponinT.R supplies the upstream K-PD anthracycline-troponin T model whose peak output is used here as a covariate.
Trastuzumab skbr3 (FehlingKaschek 2019) In vitro (SKBR3 cell line). Mechanistic ODE model of trastuzumab-induced HER2 receptor internalization with two cell-membrane phenotypes (ruffled vs flat); Model B of Fehling-Kaschek 2019, no recycling or degradation.
TrastuzumabDeruxtecan (Yin 2021) Two-compartment population PK model for intact trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd, DS-8201, anti-HER2 antibody-drug conjugate) with linear elimination and covariate effects of body weight, albumin, baseline tumor size, sex, and Japan-country indicator in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer or other HER2-expressing solid tumors (Yin 2021)
Trastuzumabemtansine (Lu 2014) Linear two-compartment population PK model of trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1, anti-HER2 antibody-drug conjugate) with first-order elimination from the central compartment in patients with HER2-positive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (Lu 2014)
TrastuzumabEmtansine mechanistic (Bender 2014) Mechanistic DAR0-DAR7 catenary deconjugation PK model for trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in cynomolgus monkeys (default) and rats (Bender 2014): each DAR moiety distributes into a shared three-compartment backbone and deconjugates sequentially toward naked trastuzumab (DAR0); uses five shared upper-chain rate constants (k7->3) plus separate k_2->1 and k_1->0.
TrastuzumabEmtansine reduced (Bender 2014) Reduced three-compartment population PK model for trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) and naked trastuzumab (DAR0) in cynomolgus monkeys (default) and rats (Bender 2014): single lumped T-DM1 conjugate species deconjugates into DAR0 via a single deconjugation clearance; both species share V1/V2/V3 and distributional clearances.
Tremelimumab (Hwang 2022) Two-compartment population PK model for tremelimumab (anti-CTLA-4 IgG2 kappa) with regimen-dependent sigmoidal time-varying clearance in adults with advanced solid tumours, dosed as monotherapy or in combination with durvalumab (Hwang 2022)
Treosulfan (Danielak 2017) Two-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for treosulfan (TREO) in pediatric patients undergoing conditioning prior to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Danielak 2017). Allometric body-weight scaling normalised to a 70 kg adult typical value with exponents fixed at 0.75 on CL and 1 on V1 and V2; Q has no weight covariate. Correlated IIV on CL and V1 (Cl-V1 correlation 0.714); independent IIV on Q. Proportional residual error.
Triflusal (Park 2014) One-compartment population PK with first-order metabolite-formation kinetics for the active triflusal metabolite hydroxy-4-(trifluoromethyl) benzoic acid (HTB) in healthy Korean male volunteers, with a binary probability PD model for inhibition of platelet aggregation (IPA). Triflusal is an antiplatelet prodrug; only HTB is measured analytically. NONMEM ADVAN2 TRANS2 is used by the source paper – the canonical depot compartment carries triflusal and the canonical first-order rate constant (here lka) plays the role of the paper’s HTB formation rate constant kf (0.341 1/h). Apparent oral clearance CL/F (0.200 L/h at 71.65 kg) and apparent oral volume V/F (8.300 L at 71.65 kg) describe HTB disposition; F absorbs the unknown fraction of triflusal converted to HTB. Body weight is the only retained covariate and enters as a power on CL/F (exponent 0.845) and direct proportionality on V/F (exponent fixed to 1). PD endpoint is binary IPA = 1 when platelet aggregation < 74% else 0; the instantaneous probability of IPA is a sigmoid Hill function of HTB concentration, prob_ipa = Cc^gamma / (EC50^gamma + Cc^gamma), with EC50 = 84.9 ug/mL and gamma = 19.2 (BSV on gamma fixed to 0). The Hill exponent is very steep (quantal-like concentration-response). Parameter values from Park 2014 Table 2 Estimates column.
Trontinemab (Grimm 2023) Trontinemab PK model in non-human primates (Grimm 2023): two-compartment plasma PK with Michaelis-Menten elimination and brain-region effect-compartment distribution (brain_cerebellum, brain_hippocampus, brain_striatum, brain_cortex, choroid plexus, CSF).
Tusamitamab (Pouzin 2022) Integrated multi-analyte semi-mechanistic population PK model of tusamitamab ravtansine (SAR408701, anti-CEACAM5 IgG1-SPDB-DM4 ADC) in adults with advanced solid tumors (Pouzin 2022): explicit two-compartment disposition for DAR1-DAR8 ADC species and a separate naked-antibody (NAB) chain sharing Vc/Vp/Q, irreversible first-order DAR_n -> DAR_(n-1) deconjugation feeding a one-compartment DM4 catabolite that converts to MeDM4.
UDCA (Zuo 2016) Systems model. Enterohepatic recirculation of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) and its glycine (GUDCA) and taurine (TUDCA) conjugates in healthy adults, with adaptation to primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). 19 ODEs across stomach, intestine, portal vein, blood, liver, biliary system, and feces compartments per analyte; oral square-wave absorption (0.5 h) and meal/snack-modulated biliary-to-intestinal flux. No IIV or residual error - typical-value mechanistic simulation only.
UnfractionatedHeparin (Jia 2015) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order elimination for unfractionated heparin (UFH) administered as multiple intravenous bolus injections during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in adult Chinese cardiac surgery patients (Jia 2015). Plasma UFH exposure was inferred from anti-FIIa chromogenic activity. No covariates were retained in the final model (age, body weight, and sex were tested via forward inclusion / backward elimination and none met the p < 0.001 retention threshold). Concentrations are reported in IU/mL of anti-FIIa activity; doses are in IU (1 mg UFH = 125 IU). The published model also describes instantaneous neutralization of central-compartment UFH at protamine sulfate dosing (see vignette for the simulation pattern); the structural ODEs here are the standard two-compartment IV bolus form.
Upadacitinib (Klunder 2017) Two-compartment population PK model with first-order absorption and an absorption lag time for oral upadacitinib (ABT-494), a selective JAK1 inhibitor, in healthy adults and adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Klunder 2017, pooled phase I + phase IIb analysis). Statistically significant covariates retained in the final model: population (RA vs healthy) on CL/F, sex on CL/F and Vc/F, baseline creatinine clearance on CL/F (raw Cockcroft-Gault, not BSA-normalized), and total body weight on Vc/F. ISV is reported separately for healthy subjects and RA patients on CL/F and Vc/F, and is encoded here as paired healthy / RA structural means with cohort-specific log-normal random effects gated by DIS_HEALTHY.
Ustekinumab (Aguiar 2021) Population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model for ustekinumab in adults with Crohn’s disease (Aguiar 2021): two-compartment quasi-equilibrium TMDD model for ustekinumab and the unbound IL-12/IL-23 p40 target, linked to fecal calprotectin via an indirect-response model with target-driven stimulation of FC production.
Valganciclovir (Vezina 2010) One-compartment population PK model for ganciclovir following oral valganciclovir prophylaxis in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients at risk for Epstein-Barr virus disease (Vezina 2010). First-order absorption with no covariates retained in the final model; doses are mg of valganciclovir uncorrected for molecular weight, and the apparent CL/F and V/F absorb both oral bioavailability and the molar conversion from valganciclovir to ganciclovir.
Valganciclovir (Vezina 2014) Two-compartment population PK model for ganciclovir after oral valganciclovir prophylaxis in paediatric and adult solid organ transplant recipients (Vezina 2014). First-order absorption with fixed lag time and rate, allometric (WT/70 kg) scaling on apparent CL/F and Q/F (exponent 0.75) and on V2/F and V3/F (exponent 1.0), and a power-form effect of body-weight-adjusted creatinine clearance on CL/F (reference 60 mL/min).
Valsartan (Kim 2015) Two-compartment population PK model for valsartan with zero-order absorption in healthy adult Korean male volunteers (Kim 2015)
Vancomycin (Alqahtani 2018) Two-compartment IV population PK model for vancomycin used as prophylactic antibiotic in 28 adult patients undergoing open heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (Alqahtani 2018). Clearance scales by power exponent with Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance (raw mL/min, reference 83.5) and serum albumin (g/L, reference 35.5); central volume scales by power exponent with body weight (kg, reference 79.6).
Vancomycin (Buelga 2005) One-compartment IV intermittent-infusion population PK model for vancomycin in adult patients with hematological malignancies (Buelga 2005). CL is a purely multiplicative function of Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance (CL [L/h] = 1.08 x CLCR [L/h]) and V is a purely multiplicative function of total body weight (V [L] = 0.98 x TBW [kg]). Exponential inter-individual variability on CL and V with an estimated CL-V correlation; additive residual error in mg/L. The AML-1 and AML-2 subpopulation-specific models from the same paper are not packaged here; only the general final model (Table 4) is implemented.
Vancomycin (Chung 2013) One-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for vancomycin in Korean adults with normal serum creatinine (Chung 2013). CL and V are described by centered-linear additive deviations on age, total body weight, serum creatinine (CL only), and sex, plus a power-law effect of serum cystatin C on CL (reference 0.91 mg/L, exponent -0.78); cystatin C is the dominant CL covariate, accounting for ~62% of the inter-individual variability in CL even within the SCr <= 1.2 mg/dL inclusion window.
Vancomycin (Goti 2018) Two-compartment IV population PK model for vancomycin in hospitalized adults with and without intermittent hemodialysis (Goti 2018). Volumes scaled allometrically to body weight (reference 70 kg, fixed linear exponent), CL scaled by Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance with a power exponent (reference 120 mL/min), and intermittent hemodialysis acts as a multiplicative factor on CL (0.7) and central volume (0.5).
Vancomycin (Grimsley 1999) One-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for vancomycin in neonates and young infants (Grimsley 1999). Developed from routine therapeutic-drug-monitoring data in 59 neonates (347 concentrations). Clearance scales linearly with body weight and inversely with serum creatinine concentration (CL = 3.56 * WT / CREAT, L/h, WT in kg, CREAT in umol/L); central volume scales linearly with body weight (V = 0.669 * WT, L/kg). The covariate-coupled CL form (no separately estimated exponents) is reported by the paper as the entire structural model.
Vancomycin (Ji 2017) One-compartment IV (intermittent-infusion) population PK model for vancomycin in Chinese adult patients (Ji 2017). Clearance is scaled by raw Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance (centered linear term, reference 80 mL/min) and by age (power of (75/age), reference 75 years); the volume of distribution is a single typical value. Developed from steady-state trough therapeutic-drug-monitoring data.
Vancomycin (Li 2018) One-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for vancomycin in critically ill Chinese ICU neonates (Li 2018). CL scales allometrically with body weight (reference 2.9 kg, exponent 1.55) and as an inverse power of serum creatinine (reference 23.3 umol/L, exponent 0.337 on the SCr_ref/SCr ratio). V scales allometrically with body weight (reference 2.9 kg, exponent 1.05). IIV is on CL only; residual error is proportional.
Vancomycin (Moore 2016) Two-compartment IV population PK model for vancomycin in adult patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy (Moore 2016). Linear (additive) covariate effects on CL (Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance), Vc, and Vp (body weight), each centered on the cohort median (CRCL 84 mL/min; WT 95 kg). Proportional residual error; IIV on CL and Vc only (Q and Vp had no IIV).
Vancomycin (Nielsen 2011) In vitro (Streptococcus pyogenes M12 NCTC P1800). Semimechanistic PKPD model of vancomycin time-kill kinetics; two-stage bacterial life-cycle (proliferating drug-sensitive S and non-growing drug-insensitive R) with sigmoidal Emax killing of S via an effect compartment; first-order drug elimination (ke set per in vitro kinetic-system flow rate); drug-specific degradation kdeg fixed at zero. Parameter values are from the combined static and dynamic estimation in Table 3.
Vancomycin (Roberts 2011) One-compartment IV population PK model for vancomycin administered by continuous infusion in adult septic critically ill ICU patients (Roberts 2011). Volume of distribution scales linearly with total body weight (1.53 L/kg); clearance scales linearly with BSA-normalized 24-hour urinary creatinine clearance referenced to 100 mL/min/1.73 m^2 (4.58 L/h at the reference).
Vancomycin (Zhao 2014) One-compartment IV-infusion population PK model for vancomycin in 70 children with malignant hematological disease (Zhao 2014). Clearance scales with body weight by power exponent (reference 20.2 kg, exponent 0.677) and with Schwartz-formula creatinine clearance by power exponent (reference 191 mL/min/1.73 m^2, exponent 1.03); central volume scales with body weight by power exponent (reference 20.2 kg, exponent 0.838). Vancomycin clearance was substantially higher than in pediatric populations without cancer; the published patient-tailored daily dose is target AUC * CL_i.
Vedolizumab (Rosario 2015) Two-compartment population PK model for vedolizumab (humanised anti-alpha4-beta7 integrin IgG1 monoclonal antibody) with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination in adults with moderately-to-severely active ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease and healthy volunteers (Rosario 2015).
Verapamil rat (Syvanen 2011) Preclinical (rat, male Sprague-Dawley). Population mixed-effects popPK model for (R)-[11C]verapamil in plasma and whole-brain PET tissue, fit by Syvanen et al. (2011, BMC Med Imaging) as part of a PET study comparing P-glycoprotein (P-gp) functionality at the blood-brain barrier between kainate-induced post-status-epilepticus rats (n = 22) and saline-treated controls (n = 20), with paired tariquidar (15 mg/kg IV) vs vehicle co-administration arms. The structural model is a three-compartment plasma disposition (central + 2 peripherals) coupled to a two-compartment brain model (brain_csf = fast-exchange brain compartment connected to plasma via Qin in / Qout out; brain_deep = deep-brain compartment exchanging with brain_csf via Qbr). Plasma curves are complete-metabolite- corrected before fitting, so the model describes intact (R)-[11C]verapamil kinetics only. Body weight is the only continuous covariate (allometric on plasma CL, reference weight 0.3084 kg). Tariquidar co-administration multiplies Vp1 by 1.20, Vbr1 by 2.41, and Qin by 12.0; the kainate-induced post-SE state multiplies Vbr1 by 1.32 (no significant effect on Qin or Qout); both categorical effects use the paper’s theta^COV multiplicative form (Equation 5).
Vinflunine (Schmitt 2018) Combined population PK / PD model for IV vinflunine in adult cancer patients (Schmitt 2018, 18 phase I/II trials, n=372). Four-compartment IV-infusion popPK with creatinine clearance, body surface area, body weight, and PEGylated liposomal doxorubicin co-administration covariates, plus a five-compartment Friberg-style semi-mechanistic myelosuppression PD model for absolute neutrophil count (proliferation + 3 transit + circulation; linear drug effect 1 - slope*Cc on proliferation; (circ0/circ)^gamma feedback).
Visilizumab (Cao 2013) Second-generation minimal physiologically-based PK (mPBPK) model for visilizumab in adults (Cao 2013 Model A; clearance from plasma)
Vismodegib (Lu 2015) Semi-mechanism-based one-compartment population pharmacokinetic model for vismodegib (GDC-0449, oral Hedgehog pathway inhibitor) in adults with advanced solid tumors and healthy volunteers. First-order absorption, first-order elimination of unbound drug, and saturable fast-equilibrium binding to alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AAG) jointly describe total and unbound plasma vismodegib concentrations. AAG is supplied as a time-varying covariate (uM); covariates retained on disposition are age (power on CLunbound, reference 60 years) and body weight (power on Vc, reference 75 kg); formulation (Phase I dry-blend capsule vs Phase II wet-granulation commercial capsule) and population (healthy volunteer vs patient) shift Ka and relative bioavailability F (Lu 2015).
Voriconazole (Akbar 2025) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with first-order elimination for intravenous voriconazole in adult and pediatric Pakistani cancer patients receiving therapeutic drug monitoring (Akbar 2025); creatinine clearance and primary cancer diagnosis are covariates on clearance
Voriconazole (Chen 2015) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with first-order elimination for intravenous voriconazole in Chinese adult critically ill patients with pulmonary disease (Chen 2015); direct bilirubin enters as a power-form covariate on clearance.
Voriconazole (Friberg 2012) Integrated population pharmacokinetic model for voriconazole in children, adolescents, and adults (Friberg 2012). Two-compartment with first-order oral absorption and mixed linear plus nonlinear (Michaelis-Menten with time-dependent Vmax) elimination; allometric scaling on all clearance terms (exponent 0.75) and on volumes (exponent 1.0) with 70 kg reference; population-specific Vmax,inh, Q, ka, and Alag for children, adolescents, and adults; CYP2C19 heterozygous extensive or poor metabolizer adults have fully blocked nonlinear clearance (Vmax,inh = 100%).
Voriconazole (Han 2010) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with first-order absorption and first-order elimination for intravenous and oral voriconazole in adult lung transplant recipients during the early postoperative period (Han 2010). Bioavailability is estimated for the oral route. The base structural model is reported as the primary result; three separate single-covariate sub-models – cystic fibrosis (CF) and postoperative time (POT) on bioavailability, and body weight (WT) on peripheral volume – are reported in the paper but were not combined into a final model; the base-model typical-value parameter estimates are encoded here, and the three covariate sub-models are reproduced in the validation vignette.
Voriconazole (Karlsson 2009) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with Michaelis-Menten elimination for voriconazole in pediatric patients aged 2 to <12 years (Karlsson 2009), pooled from three open-label intravenous and oral studies; first-order oral absorption with bioavailability, no lag time; all disposition parameters proportional to body weight; CYP2C19 metabolizer status (heterozygous extensive metabolizers pooled with poor metabolizers) and alanine aminotransferase as covariates on clearance; residual error stratified by CYP2C19 metabolizer group
Voriconazole (Lin 2018) One-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with first-order absorption for intravenous and oral voriconazole in Chinese adult renal transplant recipients receiving therapeutic drug monitoring (Lin 2018); CYP2C19 phenotype enters as a covariate on clearance, postoperative time as a covariate on oral bioavailability, and body weight as a power-form covariate on volume of distribution.
Voriconazole (Muto 2015) Two-compartment population pharmacokinetic model with first-order absorption (lag time, oral bioavailability) and parallel linear plus time-dependent Michaelis-Menten elimination for voriconazole in 21 immunocompromised Japanese pediatric subjects (Muto 2015). Vmax declines with time after the first dose toward Vmax * (1 - Vmax_inh) with half-time T50; the maximum inhibition fraction Vmax_inh is fixed to 1 (full inhibition) for CYP2C19 heterozygous-extensive-metabolizer or poor-metabolizer subjects and modeled on the logit scale otherwise. Allometric scaling on all clearances (exponent 0.75) and all volumes (exponent 1) to a 70 kg reference; oral bioavailability F1 is modeled on the logit scale with a Manly-transformed log-normal random effect.
Vortioxetine (Naik 2016) Two-compartment population PK model for vortioxetine in adult patients with major depressive disorder or generalized anxiety disorder, with first-order oral absorption, region-specific oral clearance, and linear creatinine-clearance and height effects on CL/F (Naik 2016)
Vrc01 (Huang 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for VRC01 (HIV-1 broadly neutralizing IgG1 monoclonal antibody) in healthy adults after IV or SC administration (Huang 2017)
VRC07523LS (Huynh 2026) Two-compartment population PK model with zero-order subcutaneous absorption, allometric weight scaling, and binary effects of age (adult vs infant) and repeat dosing for the broadly neutralizing HIV-1 monoclonal antibody VRC07-523LS in healthy adults and HIV-exposed infants (Huynh 2026).
Warfarin (Xia 2024) K-PD warfarin PK/PD model for adult Han Chinese (Alfalfa-Warfarin-PPK/PD; Xia 2024). PK parameters fixed from the Hamberg model; PD EC50 re-estimated, with VKORC1 -1639 G/A and CYP2C9 1/2/*3 allele-specific contributions, body-weight power scaling, and amiodarone effect on EC50. Two parallel coagulation-factor transit chains drive INR.
Warfarin vk2 (Zhou 2016) Two-drug population PK/PD model for warfarin and intravenous vitamin K2 (menatetrenone) in Japanese adults with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation. Warfarin and vitamin K2 each have a 1-compartment PK with fixed volumes-of-distribution (Vd1 = 0.183 L/kg for warfarin from Sato 2006; Vd3 = 0.051 L/kg for vitamin K2 from the Eisai product information) and fixed warfarin elimination rate (k10 = 0.0129 1/h); only the vitamin K2 elimination rate (k30) and the indirect-response PD parameters (ks, kd, IC50, Emax, EC50) were estimated from 579 INR observations in 100 patients. Warfarin inhibits clotting-factor synthesis (Emax = 1 - Cp1/(Cp1 + IC50)) while vitamin K2 stimulates it (1 + Emax_vk2 * Cp3/(Cp3 + EC50)); a binary renal-impairment indicator (CREAT >= 1.1 mg/dL in men or >= 0.8 mg/dL in women) reduces IC50 to 61.4% of normal. The model predicts thrombotest (TT, %); INR is recovered from TT via the Gogstad 1986 quadratic conversion (Equation 4).
Zenocutuzumab (deVriesSchultink 2020) Two-compartment population PK model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten non-linear elimination from the central compartment for intravenous zenocutuzumab (MCLA-128), a bispecific IgG1 (anti-HER2 x anti-HER3) monoclonal antibody, in patients with various advanced solid tumors (de Vries Schultink 2020)
Zidovudine (Fauchet 2013) One-compartment population PK model for oral zidovudine (ZDV) and its glucuronide metabolite 3’-azido-3’-deoxy-5’-glucuronylthymidine (G-ZDV) in HIV-1-infected children, infants, and adolescents (Fauchet 2013, retrospective Paris-area therapeutic-drug-monitoring cohort, n = 247, age 0.5-18 years). First-order absorption with a fixed ka = 2.86 1/h (inherited from Panhard 2007) delivers ZDV into a one-compartment central compartment with apparent total clearance CL_p/F and apparent volume V/F. The metabolite is described by a single G-ZDV state driven by a lumped metabolic formation rate constant CL_m/V_m and a first-order metabolite elimination rate constant k_el. The metabolite distribution volume V_m is not identifiable from plasma data alone and is set structurally to 1 L (same convention used by Lee 2016 for raltegravir glucuronide). Body weight enters as an estimated power-allometric covariate on CL_p/F (exponent 0.858) and on V/F (exponent 0.534), centered on the cohort median 32.2 kg; age, sex, dosage form, and antiretroviral cotreatments (3TC, ddI, ABC, LPV, RTO, NFV, NVP, EFV) were all tested and none was retained at p < 0.01.
Zika FAV IFN RBV (PiresdeMello 2018) In vitro (Vero cells). Translational mechanism-based pharmacodynamic (MBM) model of Zika virus replication and inhibition by favipiravir (FAV), interferon alpha (IFN), and ribavirin (RBV) as monotherapy and in two-drug combinations. Eight-state model: uninfected (U) and infected (I) host cells, five intracellular virus transit compartments (vi1..vi5) capturing maturation delay, and extracellular virus (vextra) as the observation output (log10 PFU/mL). IFN inhibits cellular infection via a sigmoidal Hill function; FAV and RBV both inhibit the vi4 -> vi5 maturation transit; RBV additionally causes first-order cytotoxicity to both uninfected and infected host cells. FAV+RBV antagonism is encoded via a competitive-interaction factor PSI (= 1 monotherapy, = 1.37 combination). Drug concentrations are static covariates – the in vitro experiment fixes nominal concentrations for the 4-day window. All parameters fixed at the Table 1 point estimates; the between-curve CVs reported in Table 1 are not encoded as etas (typical-value mechanism).
Zolbetuximab (Yamada 2025) Two-compartment population PK model of zolbetuximab (anti-CLDN18.2 IgG1 mAb) with zero-order IV input and time-dependent clearance in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric/gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) adenocarcinoma (Yamada 2025)
Zonisamide (Hashimoto 1994) Steady-state Michaelis-Menten population PK model for zonisamide in 68 Japanese epileptic patients (pediatric + adult) on chronic oral zonisamide. A power-of-weight body-size factor scales both volume of distribution and Vmax; concomitant carbamazepine multiplicatively increases Vmax (Hashimoto 1994 Eqs. 1-4).

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Alzheimer (Conrado 2014) Updated Alzheimer’s disease progression model for ADAS-Cog total score (0-70) over time, fit to ~25,000 ADAS-Cog observations from 4,494 subjects across 15 studies in the Coalition Against Major Diseases (CAMD) Alzheimer’s database. The expected score is described by a Richards three-parameter logistic growth function whose asymptote is the upper boundary score 70; the residual distribution on the bounded ADAS-Cog/70 scale is a beta distribution with precision parameter TAU. Subject-level baseline and slope inter-individual variability are correlated through a 2x2 BLOCK; covariates of sex on baseline, APOE4-allele count on baseline and slope, age on slope, and concomitant Alzheimer’s-symptomatic medication on slope are reproduced from the source. The original publication adds a third-level (study) random effect on baseline and slope plus study-1131-specific scalers; nlmixr2 does not natively support multi-level random effects, so those layers are dropped here and documented in the validation vignette’s Errata section.
Artesunate (Birgersson 2019) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for oral artesunate and dihydroartemisinin in pregnant and non-pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, with a 3-compartment transit-absorption chain into a 1-compartment artesunate disposition model and complete in-vivo conversion to a 1-compartment DHA disposition model. Allometric body-weight scaling on CL (exponent 0.75) and V (exponent 1) is applied to both parent and metabolite. Covariate effects: pregnancy on DHA elimination clearance, and admission alanine aminotransferase and log-asexual-parasite-count on relative bioavailability of artesunate.
Bedaquiline (Svensson 2016) Three-compartment population PK model for the antimycobacterial bedaquiline (BDQ) and its one-compartment N-desmethyl metabolite M2 in adult patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), with two-transit-compartment first-order oral absorption, time-varying body-weight allometric scaling, time-varying serum-albumin power effects on disposition and metabolite formation/elimination, and additional Black-race and linear age covariate effects on bedaquiline and M2 clearance.
Capecitabine (Henin 2009) Longitudinal Markov-proportional-odds model for hand-and-foot syndrome (HFS) toxicity grades 0-2 in cancer patients receiving capecitabine. Capecitabine exposure is described with a kinetic-pharmacodynamic (K-PD) one-compartment delay; the per-week effective drug rate drives a sigmoid Emax that shifts the cumulative log-odds for the next HFS grade conditional on the previous grade. Baseline-Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance is the only structural covariate.
Ciprofloxacin (Khan 2015) Mechanism-based six-compartment PK/PD model for ciprofloxacin against Escherichia coli K-12 wild-type and quinolone-resistant single-step mutants in static in vitro time-kill experiments (Khan et al. 2015 J Antimicrob Chemother). Two co-existing bacterial subpopulations (susceptible-growing, plus a small pre-existing less-susceptible subpopulation seeded at MUT*1e-6 of the inoculum) each carry growing, resting, and drug-induced non-colony-forming states; drug effect is a Hill-Emax term on bacterial kill with strain-specific EC50 (LM202 estimated; LM347, LM378, LM534, LM625, LM693, LM707 fixed at the published per-strain values), a separate EC502 for the resistant subpopulation, density-dependent active->resting flux, and a model-time gate that switches off the active->non-colony-forming transition after THETA(19) hours.
Cladribine (Novakovic 2017) Item Response Theory (IRT) model of EDSS disability progression in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with cladribine (Novakovic 2017). Eight EDSS functional system subscores (Pyramidal, Cerebellar, Brainstem, Sensory, Bowel/Bladder, Visual, Mental, Ambulation) are linked to a latent disability variable that follows a power-law disease progression in time. The model embeds an exposure-dependent symptomatic drug effect (Emax on cumulative cladribine dose adjusted for creatinine clearance) and an exposure-independent fractional protective effect on disease progression, plus full Random Effects on covariates (FREM) for Age, months since diagnosis (MSD), and exacerbation rate baseline (EXNB).
Colistin (Leuppi-Taegtmeyer 2019) Six-structural-compartment population PK model for colistimethate sodium (CMS, prodrug) and colistin (Col, active metabolite) during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in critically ill adults. CMS converts to Col by first-order metabolism (CL1M); Col is cleared by metabolism (CL2M). Both CMS and Col exchange with a CRRT filter compartment (driven by blood flow QBL and patient hematocrit HCT) and a downstream cartridge / effluent compartment (driven by effluent flow QEFF and species-specific sieving coefficients SC_CMS and SC_COL). Filter and cartridge priming volumes are fixed device constants (V_filter = 0.2 L, V_cart = 0.3 L). Bioavailability factor F = 1155.5/1749.8 on the dose compartment converts mg of CMS sodium administered into mg colistin-base equivalents (the molar-mass ratio of colistin to CMS sodium); central concentrations are reported as mg/L colistin-base equivalents.
Colistin meropenem (Mohamed 2016) In vitro time-kill PK/PD model for colistin and meropenem alone and in combination against P. aeruginosa wild-type ATCC 27853 (BACT=2) and meropenem-resistant clinical isolate ARU552 (BACT=1); proliferating/resting bacterial subpopulations with strain-specific drug effects, colistin adaptive resistance, and a meropenem-resistant mutant subpopulation
DDMoRe: lidocaine Population PK model for lidocaine and three sequential metabolites (monoethylglycinexylidide [MEGX], glycinexylidide [GX], and 2,6-xylidide [2,6-XYL]) using the source’s NONMEM ADVAN5 / TRANS1 general-linear rate-constant parameterisation. Lidocaine in the central compartment is metabolised in parallel to MEGX (rate constant k_megx, fixed at 0.03) and to 2,6-XYL (k_xyl, fixed at 0.007); MEGX is sequentially metabolised to GX (k_gx, estimated). GX and 2,6-XYL each carry a typical-value elimination rate constant (kel_gx, kel_xyl) modulated by binary stratifications of dose-level (DLVL > 2), bilirubin (BIL > 0.53), creatinine clearance (CRCL <= 52.7), CYP1A2-modifying co-medications (S1A2 == 3), body-mass index (BMI > 27.93), serum ALT (SGPT > 11), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH > 195). Lidocaine apparent central volume V1 is also dose-level-stratified (DLVL > 2); the three metabolite compartments share a fixed apparent volume of 100. Distributed in the DDMORE Foundation Model Repository as DDMODEL00000281; no linked publication is identified in the bundle’s Model_Accommodations.txt or in the .ctl / .res headers. Final parameter estimates come from the bundle’s Output_real_data_original_final_run249.res listing after the MINIMIZATION SUCCESSFUL block (FOCE estimation, OBJ = 10219.922, covariance step succeeded). The bundle’s .ctl does not declare time, dose, or concentration units explicitly; units$time = 'h', units$dosing = 'mg', and units$concentration = 'mg/L' are operator-default placeholders chosen so the values flow through unit- checking consistently. See the vignette Errata for the unit ambiguity and a per-time-point self-consistency check against the bundle’s Simulated_Lid_B04_ddmore.csv.
DDMoRe: miridesap Population PK/PD model for CPHPC (miridesap, GSK2315698, Ro 63-8695) and serum amyloid P (SAP) in healthy volunteers (CPH113776) and patients with systemic amyloidosis (CPH114527). Two-compartment PK for CPHPC (with first-order subcutaneous absorption from a depot in addition to IV infusion); two-compartment turnover model for SAP with first-order endogenous production and elimination; bimolecular CPHPC + free SAP -> complex binding (treated as effectively irreversible because internalization is fast relative to dissociation) followed by complex internalization. Final-model covariates from Sahota 2015 Eq. 1 and Eq. 2: creatinine clearance (CRCL) modifies CPHPC clearance below an 80 mL/min threshold, hepatic amyloid involvement (AMLIVER) multiplies SAP intercompartmental clearance Q4, whole-body amyloid load (AMLOAD: 0-3) multiplies SAP peripheral volume V4 in two categorical steps, and biological sex (SEXF) multiplies baseline plasma SAP. Distributed in the DDMORE Foundation Model Repository as DDMODEL00000262.
DDMoRe: paracetamol Mechanistic OGTT model from the DDMORE Foundation Model Repository (DDMODEL00000228) that uses paracetamol as a gastric-emptying tracer to drive a coupled paracetamol PK + glucose + GLP-1 + GIP system. Fifteen compartments span paracetamol stomach / intestine / central / peripheral (with saturable first-pass loss), glucose stomach / duodenum / jejunum / ileum / central / peripheral, two effect compartments for glucose-on- production and insulin-on-elimination delays, a cumulative first-pass- loss tally for paracetamol, and indirect-response states for the incretin hormones GLP-1 and GIP. The gastric-emptying rate KS is modulated downwards by duodenal glucose via a Hill function (IGD50 / GAM) and gated by a logistic lag(T-T50) profile; glucose absorption from each small-intestine segment is Michaelis-Menten in segment amount (KMG, RAMAXD / RAMAXJ / RAMAXI). Plasma insulin (INS) is a time-varying regressor that enters the central glucose compartment through a one- compartment effect delay (KIE). Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is encoded as a binary indicator switching the glucose baseline (GSSH / GSSD), glucose clearance (CLGH / CLGD), insulin-dependent glucose clearance (CLGIH / CLGID), glucose bioavailability (FPGH / FPGD), and the empirical glucose-on-production exponent (GPRG = -2.79 healthy, 0 T2DM). Body weight (WT) scales the central glucose volume linearly (VG * WT / 70). Outputs are observed on the linear scale: paracetamol concentration plus baseline noise (Cc, uM), glucose concentration (Cglu, mM), GLP-1 concentration (CGLP1), and GIP concentration (CGIP). Source listing reports the FOCEI step terminated due to rounding errors (NSIG = 0.5); see vignette Errata for the implication on parameter-precision claims.
DDMoRe: sunitinib Semi-mechanistic PK/PD/tumor-growth model for sunitinib in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients (DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000231; MDL/PharmML deposit; no linked publication identified). Parent and metabolite each follow a 2-compartment oral PK model with first-order absorption from a separate depot; both depots receive the dose, with effective bioavailability split (1 - fp) to the parent and fp to the metabolite (fp = 0.21 hard-coded). Four indirect-response PD biomarker compartments (biom1, biom2, biom3, biom4) are driven by parent (and optionally metabolite) plasma concentration through 1/(1 + pd*conc) inhibition factors; biom1 is on Kout-modulation, biom2-4 are on Kin-modulation. Tumor volume is described by a sphere-volume state (radius is the observation) with a doubling-time-capped exponential growth term modulated by a delayed parent-concentration memory and a lambda-feedback growth-rate state. A resistance-accumulator state, a parent-concentration integrator, and a delayed-signal compartment combine into the tumor’s effective growth rate. The model preserves four hard-coded structural placeholders from the MDL: fp = 0.21 (metabolite-formation fraction), th1..4 = 1 (parent-only drive on biomarkers; metabolite drive disabled), thettum = 1 (parent-only drive on tumor; metabolite drive disabled), dres = 0 (no decay of resistance accumulator).
DDMoRe: tte gompertz Parametric time-to-event base hazard model for Event 1 in the BAST PTTE 2017 four-event teaching dataset (DDMODEL00000243). The .mod $PROBLEM line names this a ‘Gompertz hazard model’ but the equation has no time-varying alphat term, so the realised hazard is constant: h(t) = (lam/1000) exp((coef_neut/10000)(NEUT-4133)) exp((coef_age/100)*(AGE-55)). The BAST guiding-document text (Figure 2-1, page 13) confirms an exponential distribution was selected for Event 1; the .mod / file name retain the ‘Gompertz’ label per the source $PROBLEM line and the operator’s selected option NA_NA_tte_gompertz.R.
DDMoRe: tte gompertz ev2 Parametric time-to-event Gompertz hazard model for Event 2 in the BAST PTTE 2017 four-event teaching dataset (DDMODEL00000243). Hazard h(t) = (lam/1000) * exp((alpha/1000)t) exp((coef_auc/1000)*(AUC_BAST_FW - 3065.5)). Event 2 in the bundle’s simulated dataset is interval-censored (CENSORING = 2), assessed at scheduled visits rather than observed exactly; the BAST guiding-document Section 2.4.1 (Figure 2-2) selected Gompertz as the base distribution by AIC, then Section 2.4.2 (Table 2-3) retained first-week AUC as the only covariate.
DDMoRe: tte loglogistic Parametric time-to-event log-logistic hazard model for Competing Event 2 in the BAST PTTE 2017 four-event teaching dataset (DDMODEL00000243). Hazard h(t) = alpha * (lam^alpha) * t^(alpha-1) / (1 + (lam*t)^alpha), where lam = lambda/1000 and alpha is unscaled. No covariates were retained. Note: the BAST guiding-document text (Section 2.4.1, Figure 2-4) selected log-normal as the base distribution for Competing Event 2, but the executable supplied with the bundle (Executable_runCOMPEV2_005.mod, $PROBLEM ‘Log_logistic model’) and the final-fit listing in the bundle are log-logistic, not log-normal. This file follows the executable; the publication-vs-bundle distribution discrepancy is documented in the validation vignette’s Errata.
DDMoRe: tte lognormal Parametric time-to-event log-normal hazard model for Competing Event 1 in the BAST PTTE 2017 four-event teaching dataset (DDMODEL00000243). Hazard h(t) = val * pdf(t) / (1 - Phi(log((t+DEL)/alpha) / lambda)), where pdf(t) is the log-normal probability density with shape lambda (sigma) and time-scale alpha, val = exp((coef_age/1000) * (AGE - 55)) is the multiplicative AGE effect, and Phi is the standard normal CDF. Competing Event 1 is interval-censored; the BAST guiding-document Section 2.4.1 (Figure 2-3) selected log-normal as the base distribution, then Section 2.4.2 (Table 2-4) retained AGE as the only covariate.
Disufenton (Jonsson 2005) Two-compartment intravenous PK model for disufenton sodium (NXY-059) in adult patients with acute ischaemic or haemorrhagic stroke (Jonsson 2005), as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000245. Continuous IV infusion (1-h loading + 71-h maintenance) with a piecewise-linear creatinine-clearance effect on CL (no effect at CLCR <= 40 mL/min, linear above 40) and a linear weight effect on the central volume of distribution (centered at 76 kg). Correlated inter-individual variability on CL and Vc and a log-transform-both-sides residual error model.
Docetaxel (Netterberg 2017) Friberg-style semi-mechanistic myelosuppression PD model for docetaxel-induced neutropenia in adult cancer patients (DDMODEL00000224, Netterberg 2017 / Kloft 2006). The bundle’s NM-TRAN .mod fixes parameter values at the Kloft 2006 docetaxel myelosuppression analysis (per the .mod’s ; Parameter estimates as according to Kloft et al., 2006 block; MAXEVALS=0 in the bundle’s $ESTIMATION confirms no re-fit) and Netterberg 2017 reuses the model unchanged to evaluate frequent-monitoring ANC prediction methodology. Structurally, the model has a self-renewing proliferation pool plus three transit compartments and a circulating compartment; docetaxel exposure is supplied as a time-varying plasma-concentration covariate (CP_MGL, mg/L) that drives a linear drug effect (1 - SL * CP_MGL) on proliferation, with a feedback term (BA / circ)^PO. Covariate effects on baseline ANC (sex, ECOG performance status, prior anticancer therapy, alpha-1 acid glycoprotein) and on the drug-effect slope (alpha-1 acid glycoprotein) follow Kloft 2006. Output is the absolute neutrophil count ANC in 10^9 cells/L.
Dupilumab ddmore (Kovalenko 2016) Dupilumab population PK as encoded in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000273. Two-compartment model with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment, first-order absorption from a SC depot, and a non-standard body-weight covariate on the central volume in which weight enters log(V2) multiplicatively. Final estimates here come from the bundle’s Output_simulated_.lst (a SAEM/IMP fit on the bundle’s Simulated_Dupilumab.CSV); no Output_real_.lst is shipped, so these values do NOT match Table 2 of the publication. The publication-faithful encoding (Eq. 1, Eq. 2, Table 2 estimates) is the replicate_of counterpart at inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Kovalenko_2016_dupilumab.R.
Ethambutol (Jonsson 2011) Two-compartment population PK model for oral ethambutol in adult South African pulmonary tuberculosis patients (Jonsson 2011), with one transit compartment preceding first-order absorption, allometric scaling on clearance and volume terms (theory-based exponents on a 50 kg reference), an HIV-status effect on bioavailability, and 4-occasion inter-occasion variability on apparent oral clearance.
Gemtuzumab (Jager 2011) Mechanism-based PKPD model for the antibody-drug conjugate gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO; Mylotarg) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000229. The model couples drug pharmacokinetics with explicit binding to the cell-surface antigen CD33: free drug in a central compartment binds free CD33 receptor to form a drug-receptor complex that is internalized; the toxic ozogamicin component then drives linear depletion of leukemic blast cells. The DDMORE entry extends the original Jager 2011 PK structure by adding a peripheral drug compartment and re-estimating all parameters simultaneously in Monolix, so it is not a literal reproduction of the published model – see the validation vignette for the comparison.
Gentamicin (Germovsek 2016) Three-compartment population PK model for gentamicin in neonates and infants (Germovsek 2016), as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000238.
Glucose (Bizzotto 2016) Mechanistic model of glucose tracer kinetics in humans driven by time-varying plasma insulin and glucose regressors (Bizzotto 2016). Glucose uptake is a Michaelis-Menten function of glucose at the site of action whose maximum rate Vmax is itself a Hill (sigmoidal) function of insulin at the site of action; this captures the observation that hyperglycemia suppresses the glucose-clearance response to hyperinsulinemia. Two-compartment delays smooth plasma insulin and glucose into their site-of-action analogues, and a heart-lung block plus a three-channel periphery block give the tracer disposition. Distributed in the DDMORE Foundation Model Repository (DDMODEL00000227) as a simulation-only implementation; the linked publication fits the same equations to real data from 123 subjects spanning normal-tolerant, impaired-glucose-tolerance, and type 2 diabetic adults.
Il21 (Elishmereni 2011) Preclinical (mouse). Seven-compartment population PK model for recombinant murine interleukin-21 (rIL-21) administered by intraperitoneal (ip), intravenous (iv), or subcutaneous (sc) routes, extracted from the DDMORE Foundation Model Repository (DDMODEL00000230). Linear elimination from the central compartment plus a direct first-pass loss from the ip depot, parallel ip and sc absorption routes each with a single intermediate transit compartment, and two peripheral distribution compartments. Saturable transfer terms present in the published model (sa0, sa1, sa2) and the sc-depot direct elimination rate (k30) are held at zero in the DDMORE deposit, leaving an effectively linear system. Per-subject random effects on CL, central volume, and the ip and sc absorption rates are correlated as a 4 x 4 block. Dose route is encoded by the cmt column: ip = depot, iv = central, sc = depot2. Units are not declared in the DDMORE bundle (no IL_21_PK.csv shipped); see the validation vignette Errata.
Levetiracetam (Schoemaker 2018) Combined adult / pediatric population PK-PD count model for levetiracetam (LEV) used in Schoemaker 2018 to scaffold a pediatric brivaracetam (BRV) extrapolation. The fitted compound is LEV; CAV is LEV plasma concentration (mg/L). Negative-binomial seizure-count likelihood with two-component mixture (responder vs non-responder), Box-Cox-transformed inter-individual variability on log baseline rate, and a Markovian dependence on the previous-period seizure count entering as a per-record covariate (PDV). The DDMORE bundle is a PD-only $PRED model: drug exposure enters as the data column CAV, so there is no PK ODE in this file. Adults contribute monthly (~28-day) counts (PDV unused, sentinel -99 in the source dataset, CHILD = 0); pediatrics contribute daily counts (NDAYS = 1, PDV = previous-day observed count, CHILD = 1).
Meropenem (Li 2006) Two-compartment population PK model for meropenem in adult patients (Li 2006), as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000213.
Meropenem (Themans 2019) Three-compartment population PK model for meropenem in adults with severe pneumonia, with parallel ELF (epithelial lining fluid) sampling (Themans 2019), as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000301.
Midazolam (vanRongen 2018) Two-compartment population PK model for midazolam with a five-transit-compartment first-order oral absorption chain (KA = KTR), supporting oral and intravenous dosing, in 19 obese adolescents (median total body weight 102.7 kg) and 20 morbidly obese adults (median 144 kg). Adult and adolescent typical clearances are estimated as separate intercepts; total body weight enters as a power covariate on clearance only in adolescents (reference 104.7 kg) and on peripheral volume only in adults (reference 141.8 kg).
Midazolam (Vet 2016) Two-compartment population PK model for IV midazolam in critically ill children (Vet 2016) with body-weight allometric scaling on CL and V1 (reference 5 kg), a CRP power effect on CL (reference 32 mg/L), per-stratum typical CL values for the number of failing organs (ORG_FAIL_COUNT strata 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / >=4; the source NMTRAN dataset names this column ORGF), inter-individual variability on CL and V1, and inter-occasion variability on CL across six daily occasions. Packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000249.
Morphine (Knibbe 2009) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for morphine and its glucuronide metabolites M3G and M6G in preterm neonates, infants and toddlers <3 years, with bodyweight allometric scaling and a postnatal-age-stratified glucuronidation step at PNA = 10 days
Morphine (Valitalo 2017) Item response theory (IRT) pharmacodynamic model for morphine analgesia in mechanically ventilated preterm neonates undergoing endotracheal suctioning. A latent pain variable is driven by suctioning state (pre/during/after), a linear morphine plasma-concentration effect, and a linear study-time effect. The 8 ordinal pain-item scores (COMFORT-B alertness/calmness/respiratory/body movement/facial tension; PIPP brow bulge/eye squeeze/nasolabial furrow; NIPS total) and 1 continuous VAS score map onto the latent variable via a graded-response IRT model. Morphine plasma concentration is supplied as a time-varying covariate CP_MORPH_NGML from an upstream PK model (Knibbe 2009; see modellib(‘Knibbe_2009_morphine’)). The IRT discrimination and difficulty parameters were estimated separately in a graded-response sub-model and are FIX’d here per the source NONMEM control stream. Population: 140 preterm neonates (mean weight 1.4 kg, mean postmenstrual age 211 days).
Morphine (Wang 2013) Two-compartment population PK model for morphine across the entire paediatric age range and adults using a bodyweight-dependent allometric exponent (BDE) on clearance, with adolescent-specific intercompartmental clearance and central volume and an adult-stratum oral-bioavailability adjustment, as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000269 (Wang 2013 Model I).
Nivolumab ddmore (Bajaj 2017) Two-compartment population PK model for nivolumab (anti-PD-1 IgG4) with time-varying clearance (sigmoid Emax of time since first dose) in patients with advanced solid tumors (Bajaj 2017; DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000284). DDMORE-source replicate of inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Bajaj_2017_nivolumab.R; parameter values are taken from the DDMORE bundle’s Output_real_Nivo-PPK.lst FINAL PARAMETER ESTIMATE block and time is kept in hours to mirror the bundle directly.
Osteoprotegerin (Zierhut 2008) Population PK/PD model for Fc-osteoprotegerin (Fc-OPG, AMG 162 / AMGN-0007 precursor) in healthy postmenopausal women (Zierhut 2008): two-peripheral-compartment IV/SC PK with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment, first-order absorption from the SC depot with a logistic-style bioavailability F = FSC / (1 + FSC), and an indirect-response biomarker turnover model for urinary N-telopeptide (uNTX) where Fc-OPG inhibits bone-resorption-driven NTX synthesis via an Imax = 1, IC50 sigmoidal Hill term.
Paclitaxel (Friberg 2002) Semi-mechanistic Friberg-style myelosuppression PK/PD model for paclitaxel in adult cancer patients (Friberg 2002, leukocyte arm of DDMODEL00000186). Paclitaxel exposure is driven by per-subject empirical-Bayes PK estimates supplied as data columns (CL_INDIV, VC_INDIV, VP_INDIV) with intercompartmental clearance Q fixed at 204 L/h. Leukocyte response is described by a self-renewing proliferating pool plus three transit compartments and a circulating compartment, with a linear drug effect (1 - SLOPU * Cc) on proliferation and a feedback term (CIRC0 / circ)^GAMMA. Output is total circulating leukocytes in 10^9 cells/L.
Paclitaxel (Terranova 2018) Preclinical xenograft-mouse Dynamic Energy Budget tumor-growth-inhibition (DEB-TGI) PK/PD model with paclitaxel-induced tumor kill and tumor-driven plus drug-driven host cachexia (Terranova 2018; DDMODEL00000274 paclitaxel scenario). Two-compartment paclitaxel PK (rate constants K10/K12/K21 and central volume V1 fixed from upstream popPK) drives a Simeoni-style tumor inhibition arm (proliferating tumor VU1 plus three damaged-cell transit compartments VU2/VU3/VU4) coupled to a host energy budget (structural body component Z, enzyme density EN). Body weight is W = density_V * (1 + xi * EN) * Z; tumor weight is Wu = density_Vu * (VU1 + VU2 + VU3 + VU4). The host-tumor coupling makes the structural-body dynamics piecewise: three switch branches (SWITCH1 / SWITCH2 thresholds with a delta_Vmax cap) determine whether the tumor draws from host enzymes preferentially, from the structural body component, or hits the catabolic body-loss cap.
Pain (Plan 2012) Markov Integer Model for placebo time-course of Likert (0-10) pain scores in adults; pooled placebo arm of three Phase III neuropathic-pain trials (Plan 2012; DDMODEL00000194)
Paracetamol (Allegaert 2015) Eight-compartment population PK model for IV propacetamol/paracetamol (APAP) and its glucuronide and sulphate metabolites in young women (Allegaert 2015), distributed in the DDMORE Foundation Model Repository as DDMODEL00000267. The structural model carries a three-compartment plasma disposition for parent APAP (central + two peripherals), two plasma metabolite compartments (APAP-glucuronide and APAP-sulphate, each with a metabolite-specific volume V_meta = 0.18 * V_central), and three cumulative-urine compartments (urine APAP, urine APAP-glucuronide, urine APAP-sulphate). Pregnancy state, time post partum, term-vs-preterm birth, oral-contraceptive use, and time-varying urine flow rate enter as covariates on the parent and metabolite-formation clearances; an OCC-conditional residual-error model gives non-pregnant volunteers on birth control a combined proportional + additive plasma error while every other occasion uses a proportional-only plasma error.
Paracetamol (Cook 2016) Population PK model for paracetamol (APAP) and its glucuronide and sulphate conjugates with cumulative urinary excretion in term and preterm newborns (Cook 2016), as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000271.
Paracetamol (vanWijk 2019) PRECLINICAL (zebrafish): two-compartment paracetamol PK model fit to zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae continuously exposed to a 1 mM paracetamol bath at 3, 4, or 5 days post-fertilization (van Wijk 2019, DDMODEL00000294). The medium reservoir (compartment 1) is held at constant amount, so K12 acts as a zero-order absorption rate from the bath into the larva; elimination from the larva (compartment 2) is first-order with rate K25. Larval age in dpf enters as a step factor on K12 (~2.06x at >= 4 dpf vs 3 dpf) and a per-day power factor on K25 (+17.4% per day post-fertilization), consistent with maturation of paracetamol absorption and elimination capacity across the 3-5 dpf window.
Paracetamol (Zurlinden 2016) Whole-body physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for paracetamol (acetaminophen, APAP) and its conjugated metabolites APAP-glucuronide (AG) and APAP-sulfate (AS) in healthy adults (Zurlinden & Reisfeld 2016, DDMODEL00000237 Scenario 4 = 1000 mg single oral dose). Each chemical is distributed across nine flow-limited tissue compartments (fat, kidney, muscle, rapidly perfused, slowly perfused, liver, arterial blood, venous blood) with a separate hepatic sub-compartment for the conjugates. Liver metabolism uses Michaelis-Menten kinetics with partial substrate inhibition for CYP-mediated NAPQI formation, sulfation by SULT (cofactor PAPS), and glucuronidation by UGT (cofactor UDP-glucuronic acid, GA); both cofactors are tracked as relative-amount states with zeroth-order resynthesis. Renal elimination is linear, scaled by body weight. Oral absorption is encoded as a bi-exponential gastric-emptying rate function (Tg, Tp) added directly to the liver compartment, with dose-dependent bioavailability fa = 0.0005*Dose_mg + 0.37 (Dose < 1000 mg) or 0.88 (>= 1000 mg). The model is deterministic typical-value (no IIV, no residual error) – the DDMORE bundle exposes only the Bayesian posterior-mean parameters from Forward_APAP1.in, not the per-individual variability or measurement-error distributions reported in the publication.
Phenobarbital (Voller 2017) One-compartment first-order-absorption population PK model for phenobarbital in preterm and term newborns (Voller 2017), as packaged in DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000256.
Pimasertib (Girard 2012) Joint K-PD / cumulative-logit Markov / Weibull-TTE-dropout model for ocular adverse events and treatment discontinuation in advanced solid-tumour and hematological-malignancy patients dosed with the MEK inhibitor pimasertib in two phase I dose-escalation studies (Girard 2012; DDMODEL00000215)
Prostate (Wilbaux 2015) Joint semi-mechanistic kinetic-pharmacodynamic (K-PD) model of circulating tumour cell (CTC) count and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) longitudinal kinetics during chemotherapy and/or hormonotherapy in adults with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) (Wilbaux 2015 / DDMODEL00000261). The structural model couples (i) two parallel first-order K-PD compartments for chemotherapy and hormonotherapy (no PK data – virtual unit doses per cycle), (ii) a latent, dimensionless tumour-burden variable LV(t) governed by an indirect-response ODE with saturable Emax inhibition by both treatment compartments and a steady-state-anchored production rate, (iii) a CTC count that is the difference between two integrals of K0 * LV separated by the cell-lifespan delay LS (cell lifespan model implemented via a parallel delayed copy of the LV dynamics), and (iv) a PSA concentration following a non-steady-state indirect-response ODE driven by the same delayed LV. The published likelihood combines a negative-binomial count distribution for CTC observations (mean = alpha * CTC_total, overdispersion OVDP) with an exponential residual error on log-transformed PSA observations (W1 = 0.30); the full BLOCK(9) correlated $OMEGA across the nine PD parameters is preserved verbatim. nlmixr2’s parser cannot natively express the .mod’s F_FLAG=2 (-2ln-likelihood) negative-binomial branch, so this implementation provides typical-value mechanistic outputs (NCTC = CTC alpha, PSA, log_PSA) with placeholder additive residual errors on each – see vignette Assumptions and deviations.
Remoxipride (Stevens 2012) Mechanism-based PK/PD model for the prolactin response to remoxipride in rats: 3-compartment plasma + brain-ECF + peripheral PK with parallel intranasal absorption (systemic and direct nose-to-brain), feeding a pool model for prolactin synthesis (with positive feedback), storage in lactotrophs, release into plasma, and elimination, where remoxipride brain-ECF concentration drives an Emax stimulation of prolactin release
Ribavirin (Laouenan 2015) Hemoglobin turnover (indirect-response) model describing ribavirin-induced anemia in HCV genotype-1 cirrhotic patients on telaprevir- or boceprevir-based triple therapy (Laouenan 2015). Hemoglobin (g/dL) follows a kin/kout indirect-response ODE in which ribavirin inhibits hemoglobin synthesis with an Imax = 1, EC50 form. The ribavirin concentration time-course is reconstructed analytically from per-subject empirical-Bayes regressors (CSS_RBV, K_RBV) supplied as data columns from a separately fitted Laouenan 2015 upstream ribavirin popPK fit; this PD model does not instantiate the PK ODE itself. Distributed in the DDMORE Foundation Model Repository as DDMODEL00000285; the linked publication fits the same equations to 15 ANRS-CO20-CUPIC patients (9 telaprevir, 6 boceprevir).
Rifampicin (Clewe 2016) Multistate Tuberculosis Pharmacometric (MTP) model for in vitro M. tuberculosis H37Rv natural growth (no drug effect): three bacterial states (fast-multiplying, slow-multiplying, non-multiplying) with Gompertz growth on F and time-varying F->S transfer (Clewe 2016; DDMODEL00000240, scenario 4 – natural-growth backbone of the framework that the publication then couples with rifampicin exposure-response; the bundled .mod ships only the natural-growth scaffold)
Rifampicin (Clewe 2018) Multistate Tuberculosis Pharmacometric (MTP) model coupled with the General Pharmacodynamic Interaction (GPDI) model for the triple combination of rifampicin (CONMED_RIF_CC), isoniazid (CONMED_INH_CC), and ethambutol (CONMED_EMB_CC) against in vitro Mycobacterium tuberculosis B1585 (Clewe 2018, scenario = 4). Three bacterial subpopulations (fast-multiplying Fbugs, slow-multiplying Sbugs, non-replicating Nbugs) exchange via first-order rates and a time-dependent F-to-S transfer; CONMED_INH_CC adaptive resistance is captured by a two-state ARON / AROFF system that dynamically shifts the CONMED_INH_CC EC50 on the F and S subpopulations. Each drug acts on each subpopulation through a Hill or hyperbolic exposure-response, combined across drugs via Bliss independence on Fbugs and linear addition on Sbugs and Nbugs; pairwise GPDI interaction parameters shift the Emax / EC50 of each affected drug-effect term. Drug exposures (CONMED_RIF_CC, CONMED_INH_CC, CONMED_EMB_CC) are time-fixed in vitro concentrations supplied as data covariates.
Rifampicin (Svensson 2018) One-compartment population PK model for high-dose oral rifampicin in adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients (Svensson 2018, HIGHRIF1), with closed-form transit-compartment absorption (mean transit time and Erlang shape estimated), Michaelis-Menten clearance scaled by an auto-induced enzyme turnover compartment, fat-free-mass allometric scaling on Vmax (0.75) and central volume (1.0), and a saturable dose-dependent bioavailability anchored at the 450 mg reference dose.
Rifampicin (Wilkins 2008) One-compartment population PK model for oral rifampicin in adult South African pulmonary tuberculosis patients (Wilkins 2008), with an analytical transit-compartment chain (Savic 2007 form) preceding first-order absorption, multiplicative formulation effects of single-drug-combination (vs fixed-dose-combination reference) on apparent oral clearance and on mean transit time, IIV on CL/V (correlated)/Ka/MTT/NN, and 6-occasion inter-occasion variability on log-CL and log-MTT.
Sibrotuzumab (Kloft 2004) Two-compartment population PK model for sibrotuzumab in adults with metastatic FAP-positive cancer (Kloft 2004), with parallel linear and Michaelis-Menten elimination from the central compartment and a fixed linear body-weight covariate (centered at 75 kg) on linear CL, central and peripheral volumes, and Vmax.
Sultiame (Dao 2020) Population PK model for sultiame in healthy adult volunteers with non-linear distribution into erythrocytes (saturable binding to a putative red-blood-cell carrier). Four-compartment structure: depot (oral absorption, KA fixed at 1/h), central (plasma), erythrocytes (drug bound to a saturable carrier in red blood cells parameterised by KON, KOFF, BTOT), and urine (cumulative urinary excretion as a fraction QREN of total elimination). Drug binding to erythrocytes is written in mass-action form on amounts (KON in 1/(h*mg)). DDMORE Foundation Model Repository entry DDMODEL00000298, fit on 4 healthy volunteers (433 observations) by NONMEM ADVAN13 FOCEI.
Sunitinib (Hansson 2013a) Population PD biomarker model for sunitinib in adults with imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST). Four indirect-response compartments for the soluble biomarkers VEGF, sVEGFR-2, sVEGFR-3, and sKIT, each driven by a per-cycle drug-exposure summary AUC = DOSE / CLI. Sigmoid Imax inhibition with a Hill coefficient applies to VEGF (Kout) and sVEGFR-2 (Kin); simple Imax inhibition applies to sVEGFR-3 (Kin) and sKIT (Kin). A linear disease-progression term increases the baseline of VEGF and sKIT over time. The PD model has no PK ODE: the user supplies DOSE (current daily sunitinib dose, mg, time-varying with on/off cycling) and CLI (subject-specific posthoc total plasma clearance, L/h, from an upstream popPK fit) as data columns. No covariates other than the two exposure inputs.
Sunitinib (Hansson 2013b) Population PD tumor growth inhibition model for sunitinib in adults with imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST). The longitudinal sum of longest tumor diameters (SLD) is modelled as exponential growth (KG) with three additive shrinkage drivers – exposure-driven (KDRUG * AUC), and the model-predicted relative-from-baseline changes in soluble KIT (sKIT) and soluble VEGFR-3 (sVEGFR-3) acting through the rate constants KSKIT and KVEGFR3 – modulated by an exponential time-dependent resistance term (LAMBDA). The two soluble-biomarker time-courses are simulated in-model as 3 indirect-response compartments (treated sKIT, placebo / untreated sKIT, sVEGFR-3) driven by simple-Imax inhibition of Kin with the per-cycle exposure summary AUC = DOSE / CLI; the placebo-arm sKIT compartment carries a linear disease-progression term. The PD model has no PK ODE and consumes individual posthoc upstream-PD parameters (BAS_SKIT, MRT_SKIT, EC50_SKIT, SLOPE_SKIT, BAS_SVEGFR3, MRT_SVEGFR3, EC50_SVEGFR3) plus posthoc upstream-PK clearance (CLI) and observed baseline tumor size (TUMSZ, mm) as data covariates. IIV on tumor growth (KG), drug effect (KDRUG), and the sKIT-driven shrinkage rate (KSKIT); LAMBDA’s IIV is held at zero in the source; the IPP-style baseline-residual eta is fixed-variance 1 with proportional residual scaling (Dansirikul / Silber / Karlsson 2008).
Sunitinib (Hansson 2013c) Population PD model of fatigue (NCI-CTC grades 0 / 1 / 2 / 3+) in adults with imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) on sunitinib. A first-order Markov + proportional-odds (PO) likelihood describes the fatigue-grade transition probabilities at each scheduled visit, conditional on the previous fatigue grade. The cumulative-logit baselines are shifted per starting state by a placebo coefficient on the relative change in plasma soluble VEGFR-3 (sVEGFR-3) from baseline; sVEGFR-3 itself follows an indirect-response turnover driven by the per-cycle drug-exposure summary AUC = DOSE / CLI. The PD model has no PK ODE and consumes individual posthoc upstream-PD parameters (BAS_SVEGFR3, MRT_SVEGFR3, EC50_SVEGFR3) and posthoc upstream-PK clearance (CLI) as data covariates. Random effects are diagonal across the four per-state baseline logits.
Sunitinib (Schindler 2016) Joint pharmacodynamic model for sunitinib in advanced GIST coupling a five-lesion indirect-response model of [18F]FDG-PET SUVmax with a per-subject sum-of-longest-diameters (SLD) tumor-growth-inhibition module and constant-baseline-hazard Weibull time-to-event sub-models for overall survival and study dropout (Schindler 2016 / DDMODEL00000221). Sunitinib exposure enters via an effect compartment driven by a per-day AUC = DOSE / CLI; the OS hazard depends on the per-subject week-1 maximum across-lesion relative SUVmax change from baseline, RCFB1MAX.
Survival (Zecchin 2016) Time-to-event model for overall survival (OS) in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (Zecchin 2016 / DDMODEL00000218): Weibull baseline hazard with covariate effects of normalised baseline SLD (TUM_SLD / 70 mm), tumour-size-ratio TSR(t) capped at week 12, time-varying new-lesion indicator (NWLS), and binary ECOG performance status, with the underlying SLD trajectory (subject-specific tumour-growth and drug-cytotoxicity rate constants from the upstream Zecchin 2016 SLD model) integrated inline.
Tamoxifen (TerHeine 2014) Joint parent-metabolite population PK model for tamoxifen and endoxifen at steady state in adult breast-cancer patients, with CYP2D6 and CYP3A4/5 individual-activity covariates on the endoxifen-formation clearance
Tgfbinhibitor (Lestini 2015) One-compartment first-order absorption PK with indirect-response biomarker turnover (E represents fractional inhibition of TGF-beta signalling) for a small-molecule TGF-beta inhibitor in oncology, simplified by Lestini 2015 from Bueno et al. for use as a population PK/PD test bench in adaptive-design simulations.
Tumorovarian (Zecchin 2016) Tumour-size dynamics model (sum of longest diameters, SLD) for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer with independent additive carboplatin and gemcitabine cytotoxic effects (Zecchin 2016 / DDMODEL00000217): exponential SLD growth with two drug-exposure-driven death-rate terms (no resistance, no synergy), additive residual error, and M3-method handling of below-LLOQ observations in the source NONMEM run.