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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2015 Nov 6;289(3):428–441. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2015.10.017

Table 3.

Chemical specific parameters for adult rat PFOA PBPK model.

Parameter Definition Units Value Source
Free free fraction of PFOA in plasma unitless 0.09 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 6b and 6b
Vmax_basoC Vmax of basolateral transporters measured in in vitro studies (average of Oat1 and Oat3) mg/h/kg BW0.75 0.04 Calculated from Nakagawa et al., 2007
Km_baso Km of basolateral transporters (Oat1 and Oat3) ug/mL 27.20 Nakagawa et al., 2007
Vmax_apicalC Vmax of apical transporters measured in in vitro studies (Oatp1a1) mg/h/kg BW0.75 0.947 Calculated from Nakagawa et al., 2007
Km_apical Km of apical transporters (Oatp1a1) ug/mL 52.3 Weaver et al., 2010
RAFapi relative activity factor of apical transporters (male) unitless 35.0 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 6b
relative activity factor of apical transporters (female) unitless 0.001356 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 6a
RAFbaso relative activity factor of basolateral transporters (male) unitless 4.07 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 6b
relative activity factor of basolateral transporters (female) unitless 0.01356 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 6a
PL liver:blood partition coefficient 2.2 Kudo et al., 2007
PK kidney:blood partition coefficient 1.05 Kudo et al., 2007
PR Rest of body:blood partition coefficient 0.11 Kudo et al., 2007
k0c rate of absorption of PFOA in stomach /hr/kg0.25 1.0 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 1 and Experiment 6a
kabsc rate of absorption of PFOA in small intestines /hr/kg0.25 2.12 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 1 and Experiment 6a
kunabsc rate of unabsorbed dose to appear in feces /hr/kg0.25 7.06 × 10−5 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 1 and Experiment 6a
keffluxc rate of clearance of PFOA from proximal tubule cells into blood /hr/kg0.25 2.49 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 6a and 6b
kbilec biliary elimination rate /hr/kg0.25 0.004 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 1 and Experiment 6a
kurinec urinary elimination rate /hr/kg0.25 1.6 Fit to Kemper, Experiment 6a and 6b