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. 2018 Sep 10;7(10):687–697. doi: 10.1002/psp4.12346

Table 2.

Pharmacokinetic parameter estimates from the final model, and median parameter estimates with 95% CIs from the PsN SIR package

Parameter (unit) Description NONMEM SIR‐resultsa
Mean θ estimate %RSE Median 95% CI
S‐ketamine
CLINT,H,SK (L/h) Intrinsic hepatic clearance 301 14.2 304 [260, 352]
CLINT,GW,SK (L/h) Intrinsic gut wall clearance 1.19 39.5 1.22 [0.66, 1.98]
K a,SK (/h) Absorption rate constant 1.76 16.1 1.78 [1.47, 2.11]
V C,SK (L) Volume of central compartment 14.4 43.1 14.4 [5.90, 22.5]
V PER1,SK (L) Volume of first peripheral compartment 102 8.0 102 [92.5, 111]
Q PER1,SK (L/h) Central to first peripheral compartment clearance 287 11.3 288 [250, 331]
V PER2,SK (L) Volume of second peripheral compartment 180 3.8 180 [167, 190]
Q PER2,SK (L/h) Central to second peripheral compartment clearance 22.4 6.0 22.3 [20.8, 24.1]
IIV on CLINT,H,SK Interindividual variability on CLINT,H,SK 0.25 11.9 0.26 [0.17, 0.37]
IIV on CLINT,GW,SK Interindividual variability on CLINT,GW,SK 2.1 22.4 2.0 [1.11, 3.67]
IIV on K a,SK Interindividual variability on K a,SK 0.42 17.9 0.44 [0.29, 0.66]
IIV on  V PER1,SK Interindividual variability on V PER1,SK 0.045 22.3 0.046 [0.022, 0.076]
RVSK,PLAC Proportional residual error with placebo 0.086 2.1 0.086 [0.079, 0.093]
RVSK,TICLO Proportional residual error with ticlopidine 0.065 33 0.065 [0.048, 0.09]
Norketamine
CLINT,H,NK (L/h) Intrinsic hepatic clearanceb 73.5 7.8 73.4 [67.6, 79.9]
CLINT,GW,NK (L/h) Intrinsic gut wall clearanceb 44.4 35.8 46.5 [29.7, 71.2]
V C,NK (L) Volume of central compartmentb 88.4 4.8 88 [82.6, 93.5]
Q PER1,NK (L/h) Central to first peripheral compartment clearanceb 19.9 12.3 20.1 [17.3, 22.8]
V PER1,NK (L) Volume of first peripheral compartmentb 88.9 5.6 88.8 [81.7, 96.5]
IIV on CLINT,H,NK Interindividual variability on CLINT,H,NK 0.10 15.1 0.10 [0.07, 0.15]
RVNK,PLAC Proportional residual error with placebo 0.062 2.4 0.062 [0.057, 0.068]
RVNK,TICLO Proportional residual error with ticlopidine 0.064 31 0.067 [0.050, 0.090]
Ticlopidine
CLINT,H,TIC (L/h) Intrinsic hepatic clearance 1505 27.9 1490 [1148, 1820]
CLINT,GW,TIC (L/h) Intrinsic gut wall clearance 0 (FIXED)
K a,TIC (/h) Absorption rate constant 3.3 (FIXED)
V C,TIC (L) Volume of central compartment 50.3 13.9 50.8 [43.9, 57.7]
V PER1,TIC (L) Volume of first peripheral compartment 191 67 208.7 [130, 393]
Q PER1,TIC (L/h) Central to first peripheral compartment clearance 26.3 24.4 25.8 [20.9, 32.0]
IIV on CLINT,H,TIC Interindividual variability on CLINT,H,TIC 0.12 76.2 0.13 [0.06, 0.28]
RVTICLO Proportional residual variability 0.066 9.5 0.067 [0.053, 0.083]

CI, confidence interval; GW, gut wall; H, hepatic; NK, S‐norketamine; PLAC, placebo; RSE, relative standard error; SK, S‐ketamine; TICLO, ticlopidine.

a

SIR procedure was executed with 20,000 final proposal samples and 2,000 resamples.

b

Should be considered as apparent rather than absolute values, as F met was set to 1 but true value of F met = 0.80 in humans for S‐ketamine to norketamine metabolism.