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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2019 Apr;47(4):e301–e309. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003638

Table 2.

Population PK-PG model parameter estimates and model description. Parameter estimates and 95% confidence intervals (CI) are shown for each PK parameter. Point estimates and 95% CI are shown for evaluated SNPs. SNPs were evaluated for their relative effects on the formation CL of M6G (CL14) using the homozygous major SNP as the reference value. In this parameterization, a value of 1 indicates no difference from the reference. PG= (gHetero**Hetero(0/1)*(gMinor**hMinor(0/1). Next, The PG effect was added to the determination of CL14 by the following equation: CL14 = TVCL14*PG. NA indicates that for the rs62296959 there were less than 5 subjects that expressed the homozygous minor SNP.

Parameter Parameter Estimate 95% CI
Total morphine CL (L/h) 72.1 --
CL13 (L/h) 13.2 (10.4 , 16.0)
CL14 (L/h) 3.3 (2.6 , 3.9)
CL10 (L/h) 55.6 (48.2 , 62.9)
CL30 (L/h) 3.6 (2.9 , 4.2)
CL40 (L/h) 4.9 (4.0 , 5.9)
Q (L/h) 53.2 (41.9 , 64.4)
V1 (L) 22.9 (16.8 , 29.0)
V2 (L) 172.0 (158.6 , 185.5)
Estimated variance scale factor on shared eta (θη2shared) 1.01 (0.97 , 1.1)
Effect of duration of stay on formation of M3G (θCL13)MV 0.67 (0.49 , 0.86)
Effect of duration of stay on formation of M6G (θCL14)MV 0.93 (0.69 , 1.2)
Effect of duration of stay on M3G CL (θCL30)MV 0.66 (0.49 , 0.82)
Effect of duration of stay on M6G CL (θCL40)MV 0.88 (0.64 , 1.1)
V3 (L) 23.0 FIXED --
V4 (L) 29.0 FIXED --
F1, relative bioavailability 0.24 FIXED --
TM50 UGT maturation (years) 1.04 FIXED --
γ UGT maturation 3.92 FIXED --
TM50 renal maturation (years) 0.92 FIXED --
γ renal maturation 3.4 FIXED --
Interindividual Variability in CL10 0.48 (0.28 , 0.68)
Interindividual Variability in CL13 0.63 (0.39 , 0.87)
Interindividual Variability in CL14 0.54 (0.31 , 0.77)
Interindividual Variability in Metabolite CL (CL30 + CL40) 0.49 (0.28 , 0.72)
Residual Variability for Morphine 0.22 (0.20 , 0.25)
Residual Variability for M3G 0.089 (0.082 , 0.096)
Residual Variability for M6G 0.11 (0.10 , 0.12)
Heterozygous SNP rs28375964 1.03 (0.92,1.14)
Homozygous SNP rs28375964 1.04 (0.83, 1.25)
Heterozygous SNP rs10006452 0.99 (0.92,1.14)
Homozygous SNP rs10006452 1.04 (0.83, 1.25)
Heterozygous SNP rs62296959 0.99 (0.77,1.29)
Homozygous SNP rs62296959 NA NA

PK = pharmacokinetic; PG = pharmacogenomic; CI = confidence interval (lower bound, upper bound); M3G = morphine-3-glucuronide metabolite; M6G = morphine-6-glucuronide metabolite; WT= weight; TM50 = time to reach 50% of a completely mature clearance; PMA = post-menstrual age; θMV = effect of mechanical ventilation greater than 10 days. Correlation for parameters of interindividual and residual variability random-effect matrices were in the range of (−46%, 99%) and (62%, 87%), respectively. SNP = single nucleotide polymorphism

CLTOTAL=θCL10+θCL13+θCL14

CL10=θCL10(WT70)0.75 CL13=θCL13(WT70)0.75PMAγUGTTM50,UGTγUGT+PMAγUGT(θCL13)MV CL14=θCL14(WT70)0.75PMAHillTM50Hill+PMAHill(θCL14)MV

CL30=θCL30(WT70)0.75PMAγrenalTM50,renalγrenal+PMAγrenal(θCL30)MV CL40=θCL40(WT70)0.75PMAγrenalTM50,renalγrenal+PMAγrenal(θCL40)MVθη2Shared

Q=θQ(WT70)0.75

V1=θV1(WT70)1 V2=θV2(WT70)1 V3=θV3(WT70)1 V4=θV4(WT70)1