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. 2023 Feb;51(2):257–267. doi: 10.1124/dmd.122.001048

TABLE 2.

Warfarin drug property–specific parameters

S-Warfarin R-Warfarin Definitions
MW 308.3 (Simcyp, 2020) Molecular weight
Compound type Monoprotic acid (Simcyp, 2020)
Log Po:w 0.27 (Simcyp, 2020) Logarithmic neutral species octanol:buffer partition coefficient
pKa 5.1 (Simcyp, 2020) Acid dissociation constant
CL (L/hour) 0.260 (Cheng et al., 2022a) 0.119 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Total clearance
 If *1B/*1B × 0.885 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Fractional multipliers of CL if other CYP2C9 genotypes
 If *1/*3 × 0.607 (Cheng et al., 2022a)
 If *2/*3 × 0.277 (Cheng et al., 2022a)
 If *3/*3 × 0.215 (Cheng et al., 2022a)
CLR (L/hour) 0.00369 (Cheng et al., 2022a) 0.00436 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Renal clearance
Kon (L/(µg*hour)) 0.00494 (Cheng et al., 2022a) 0.00137 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Association rate constant
 If *2/*3 × 0.837 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Fractional multipliers of Kon if other CYP2C9 genotypes
 If *3/*3 × 0.518 (Cheng et al., 2022a)
Koff (/hour) 0.0405 (Cheng et al., 2022a) 0.0405 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Dissociation rate constant
Rmax (µg/L) 182 (Cheng et al., 2022a) 188 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Total receptor levels
 If *1/*3 × 0.479 (Cheng et al., 2022a) Fractional multipliers of Rmax if other CYP2C9 genotypes
 If *2/*3 × 2.51 (Cheng et al., 2022a) × 0.506 (Cheng et al., 2022a)
 If *3/*3 × 1.89 (Cheng et al., 2022a) × 0.21 (Cheng et al., 2022a)
Fa (%) 100 (Simcyp, 2020) Bioavailability
Ka (/hour) 1.85 (Simcyp, 2020) Absorption rate constant
Lag time (hour) 0 (Simcyp, 2020) Absorption lag time
BP 0.59 (Simcyp, 2020) Blood-to-plasma ratio
fup 0.009 (Simcyp, 2020) Fraction of unbound drug in plasma