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. 2019 Nov 5;11(11):578. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110578

Table 1.

Rifampicin input parameters and characteristics for the developed PBPK model.

Parameters Reported Values Model Input Values Reference
Physicochemical Properties
Molecular weight (g/mol) 822.9 822.9 [34]
LogPo:w 2.7 2.7 [34]
pKa1 1.7 1.7 [24]
pKa2 7.9 7.9 [24]
Compound type Ampholyte
Absorption
Model ADAM
Peff,man (cm/s) 2.15 × 10−4 2.4 × 10−4 a [23]
Distribution
Model Full PBPK
Prediction Method 2 Rodger and Rowland method
B/P ratio 0.52–0.90 0.67 a [24,25]
f u 0.15 0.34 a [24]
Vss (L/kg) 0.33–0.53 0.33 [23,24,25]
Elimination
CLiv (L/h) 7 7 [24]
CLR (L/h) 1.5 1.5 [25]

LogPo:w: octanol-water partition coefficient, ADAM: advanced dissolution, absorption and metabolism, Peff: human jejunum permeability, fu: fraction of unbound drug in plasma, Vss: volume of distribution at steady-state, CLiv: intravenous clearance, CLR: renal clearance. a manually optimized values based on visual predictive checks and sensitivity analysis.