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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Toxicol. 2017 Jun 6;37(12):1448–1454. doi: 10.1002/jat.3489

Table 1:

Physiological Parameters

Parameter Description Value Units Source
Volumes
BW Body Weighta 70 kg [Brown et al., 1997]
Vadi Fraction of body weight as adipose 21.4 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Vk Fraction of body weight as kidney 0.4 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Vl Fraction of body weight as liver 2.6 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Vrp Fraction of body weight as rapidly perfusedb 9.6 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Vsp Fraction of body weight as slowly perfused c 58.0 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Vap Fraction of body weight as arterial
blood
2.0 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Vvp Fraction of body weight as venous blood 6.0 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Flow Rates
Qco Cardiac output 312 L/hr [Brown et al., 1997]
BP Blood:plasma ratio 0.55d Unitless [Ramakrishnan et al., 2016]
Qadi Fraction cardiac output to adipose 5.2 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Qk Fraction cardiac output to kidney 17.5 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Ql Fraction cardiac output to liver 22.7 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Qrp Fraction cardiac output to rapidly perfused 25.5 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Qsp Fraction cardiac output to slowly perfused 29.1 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Qap Fraction cardiac output to arterial blood 1.5 Unitless [Brown et al., 1997]
Qvp Fraction cardiac output to venous blood 4.4 Unitless [Brown et al.,1997]
Partition coefficients
Padi:pD D adipose/plasma partition coeffi-cient 2.4 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Pk:pD D kidney/plasma partition coefficiente 1.02 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Pl:pD D liver/plasma partition coefficient 1.02 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Prp:pD D rapidly perfused/plasma partition coefficientf 0.44 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Psp:pD D slowly perfused/plasma partition coefficient 0.42 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Padi:p25 25(OH)D adipose/plasma partition coefficient 0.11 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Pk:p25 25(OH)D kidney/plasma partition coefficient 0.23 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Pl:p25 25(OH)D liver/plasma partition coefficient 0.23 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Prp:p25 25(OH)D rapidly perfused/plasma partition coefficient 0.08 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Psp:p25 25(OH)D slowly perfused/plasma partition coefficient 0.05 Unitless [Heaney et al., 2009]
Kinetic Parameters
Km27A1 Michelis-Menten constant for CYP27A1 3.2 μmol/L [Sakaki et al., 2005]
Vmax24A1 In vitro maximum velocity for CYP27A1 0.269 mol/min/mol
p450
[Sakaki et al., 2005]
Km2R1 Michelis-Menten constant for CYP2R1 0.45 μmol/L [Shinkyo et al., 2004]
Vmax2R1 In vitro maximum velocity for CYP2R1 1.2 mol/min/mol
p450
[Shinkyo et al., 2004]
Km27A1 Michelis-Menten constant for CYP27B1 0.9 μmol/L [Tang et al., 2012]
Vmax27B1 In vitro maximum velocity for CYP27B1 1.3 nmol/min/mg
p450
[Tang et al., 2012]
Km24A1 Michelis-Menten constant for CYP24A1 0.16 μmol/L [Sakaki et al., 2005]
Vmax24A1 In vitro maximum velocity for CYP24A1 0.088 mol/min/mol
p450
[Sakaki et al., 2005]
P450liv Conversion factor for CYP enzymes in liver 11 nmol p450/g liver [Wilson et al., 2003]
P450kid Conversion factor for CYP enzymes in kidney 12.8 mg p450/g kidney [Al-Jahdari et al., 2006]
CYP27A1 Enzyme fraction for CYP27A1 0.010 Unitless optimized
CYP2R1 Enzyme fraction for CYP2R1 0.075 Unitless optimized
CYP27B1 Enzyme fraction for CYP27B1 0.016 Unitless optimized
CYP24A1 Enzyme scalar for CYP24A1 0.012 Unitless optimized
Additional Parameters
Kabs Absorption constantg 0.88 hr−1 estimated
UnbD Unbound percentage of vitamin D 0.083 Unitless optimized
Unb25 Unbound percentage of 25(OH)D 0.03 Unitless [Bikle et al., 1986]
h Hill coefficient 4.0 Unitless optimized
EC50D Effect level for vitamin Dh 4.08 nmol/L optimized
EC5025 Effect level for 25(OH)D 4.45 nmol/L optimized

D, Vitamin D; 25, 25(OH)D

a

Reference body weight. Organ density is assumed to be 1 kg = 1 L

b

Richly perfused tissues included adrenal, blood , brain, gastrointestinal tissues, heart, lungs and thyroid. This compartment served as a mass balance compartment, namely 100 — ∑c VC for other compartments c

c

Poorly perfused tissues included muscle, skin, and bone

d

Plasma flow rates assumed a hematocrit value of 0.45 as vitamin D and its metabolites are primarily bound to plasma compounds

e

Kidney measurements were not taken in Heaney et al. [2009]; this partition coefficient was set equal to the rapidly perfused tissue

f

Measurements were set to the “remainder” compartment as given in [Heaney et al., 2009]

g

Estimated using the half-life of vitamin D [Zerwekh, 2008] and the time to maximum concentration [Heaney and Armas, 2015]