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Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. · Jan 2007
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyMechanism-based PK/PD modeling of the respiratory depressant effect of buprenorphine and fentanyl in healthy volunteers.
- A Yassen, E Olofsen, R Romberg, E Sarton, L Teppema, M Danhof, and A Dahan.
- Department of Pharmacology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. 2007 Jan 1;81(1):50-8.
AbstractThe objective of this study was to characterize the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) relationship of buprenorphine and fentanyl for the respiratory depressant effect in healthy volunteers. Data on the time course of the ventilatory response at a fixed P(ET)CO(2) of 50 mm Hg and P(ET)O(2) of 110 mm Hg following intravenous administration of buprenorphine and fentanyl were obtained from two phase I studies (50 volunteers received buprenorphine: 0.05-0.6 mg/70 kg and 24 volunteers received fentanyl: 0.075-0.5 mg/70 kg). The PK/PD correlations were analyzed using nonlinear mixed effects modeling. A two- and three-compartment pharmacokinetic model characterized the time course of fentanyl and buprenorphine concentration, respectively. Three structurally different PK/PD models were evaluated for their appropriateness to describe the time course of respiratory depression: (1) a biophase distribution model with a fractional sigmoid E(max) pharmacodynamic model, (2) a receptor association/dissociation model with a linear transduction function, and (3) a combined biophase distribution-receptor association/dissociation model with a linear transduction function. The results show that for fentanyl hysteresis is entirely determined by the biophase distribution kinetics, whereas for buprenorphine hysteresis is caused by a combination of biophase distribution kinetics and receptor association/dissociation kinetics. The half-time values of biophase equilibration (t(1/2, k(eo))) were 16.4 and 75.3 min for fentanyl and buprenorphine, respectively. In addition, for buprenorphine, the value of k(on) was 0.246 ml/ng/min and the value of k(off) was 0.0102 min(-1). The concentration-effect relationship of buprenorphine was characterized by a ceiling effect at higher concentrations (intrinsic activity alpha=0.56, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.50-0.62), whereas fentanyl displayed full respiratory depressant effect (alpha=0.91, 95% CI: 0.19-1.62).
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