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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2012 May 9;116:74–84. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.04.003

Table 4.

Model parameters from the fit of the Michaelis–Menten model to the NTP data. Model parameters c and k are from the first model; parameters β are from the reparameterized model; V and the Ts are in both models.

Parameter Values for FT4 (95% confidence limits) Values for TT4 (95% confidence limits)
V (unitless) 1 (0.88, 1.12) 1.0 (0.95,1.05)
K (pg/ml) 899 pg/mL (435,1363) 663 pg/mL (301, 1026)
c1 (for PCB 118) 0.013 (4.5 × 10−3, 2.1 × 10−2) 0.024 (0.0087, 0.039)
c2 (for PCB 126) 1 (fixed) 1 (fixed)
c3 (for PCB 153) 0.00013 (4.2 × 10−5, 2.2 × 10−4) 0.00021 (7.2 × 10−5, 3.5 × 10−4)
T0 for 14 weeks 2.1 ng/dL (1.9,2.3) 5.1 μg/dL (4.6,5.7)
T0 for 31 weeks 2.2 ng/dL (2.0,2.3) 4.0 μg/dL (3.6,4.5)
T0 for 53 weeks 1.8 ng/dL (1.7,2.0) 3.5 μg/dL (3.1,3.9)
β for 118 (pg/mL)−1 1.4 × 10−5 (7.0 × 10−6, 2.1 × 10−5) 3.6 × 10−5 (2.0 × 10−5, 5.1 × 10−5)
β for 126 (pg/mL)−1 1.1 × 10−3 (5.8 × 10−4, 1.6 × 10−3) 1.5 × 10−3 (7.0 × 10−4, 2.3 × 10−3)
β for 153 (pg/mL)−1 1.4 × 10−7 (7.5 × 10−8, 2.1 × 10−7) 3.2 × 10−7 (1.9 × 10−7, 4.5 × 10−7)