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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharm Res. 2015 May 5;32(10):3269–3281. doi: 10.1007/s11095-015-1703-5

Table I.

Physiological parameters used for scaling of lymph flow and PK properties of 12 mAbs across species.

Man Sheep Dog Monkey Cat Rabbit Rat Mouse
Body weight, kg 70 40.8 28 3.5 3.0 2.5 0.3 0.020
Thoracic duct a, ml/h/kg 1.38 1.82 1.88 NA 2.56 1.68 4.10 4.80
Lymph flow, ml/h/kg 1.73 2.27 2.35 3.51 3.20 2.10 5.13 6.00
ISF, L 15.6 NA NA 0.735 NA NA 0.0699 0.00435
Lymph volume
(Vlymph ), L
5.2 NA NA 0.314 NA NA 0.0162 0.0016
Plasma (Vp), L 2.6 NA NA 0.157 NA NA 0.0081 0.00085
a

Thoracic duct data for mouse, rat, rabbit, cat, dog, and man were extracted from Lindena et al (23). Thoracic duct data for Sheep were obtained from Porter et al (22).

NA: not applicable