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. 2010 Dec 3;4:168. doi: 10.1186/1752-0509-4-168

Table 1.

Listed are the ISL parameters and the values used for this work.

Parameter Value Description
StepsPerCycle 2 # of model steps in 1 simulation cycle

SSTypeRatio 0.550 Ratio of short, wide SS to long, narrow SS

DirSinCirc 24 Width of short, wide SS

DirSinLenAlpha 1.000 Gamma distribution shape parameter

DirSinLenBeta 0.085 Gamma distribution scale parameter

DirSinLenShift 0.000 Scalar shift parameter

TortSinCirc 10 Width of long, narrow SS

TortSinLenAlpha 8.000 Gamma distribution shape parameter

TortSinLenBeta 0.075 Gamma distribution scale parameter

TortSinLenShift -10.000 Scalar shift parameter

SinusoidTurbo 0.250 Ratio of forward to zero bias for compound random walk

CoreFlowRate 1 # SS grid points per cycle compound moves in the Core and the bilecanal

BileCanalCirc 1 Thickness of the bilecanal in SS grid points

S2EJumpProb 0.850 Likelihood a compound will move from Space A to Space B

E2SJumpProb 0.150 Likelihood a compound will move from Space B to Space A

E2DJumpProb 0.850 Likelihood a compound will move from Space A to Space C

D2EJumpProb 0.150 Likelihood a compound will move from Space C to Space B

ECDensity 0.900 Fraction of Space B points filled with endothelial cells

HepDensity 0.900 Fraction of Space C points filled with hepatocytes

BindersPerCellMin/Max 125/125 Uniformly distributed # of binder objects in each cell

MetabolismProb 0.200 Likelihood a bound compound will be metabolized

SoluteBindingProb 0.750 Likelihood an intracellularcompound will be bound

SoluteBindingCycles 15 # of cycles a compound is bound

SoluteScale 1.0 Scaling from ISL to wet-lab dose fraction

MembraneCrossing No/Yes Whether compound crosses cell membranes

BileRatio 0%/50% Percent of compound that goes back into cell vs. bile

Dosage 5,000 Generate and insert this many compound objects

DosageCycle 2 Simulation cycle at which to inject the compound