D360 selected as enterprise solution for data integration, with data mining, analysis and visualization capabilities ST. LOUIS, MO – 2011 年 7 月 12 日 – Certara™, a leading provider of software and services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through clinical development, today announced that a top 15 global pharmaceutical company has licensed D360 as … Continued
In May 2011, T.J. Smith and B.E. Hillner published an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Bending the Cost Curve in Cancer Care” (link). In this opinion piece, Smith and Hillner suggest that the rapidly increasing cost of treating cancer is not sustainable. “We must find ways to reduce the costs … Continued
The process of curve stripping is used in both compartmental and non-compartmental analysis. Each pharmacokinetic profile is made up of one or more exponential phases. The “curve stripping” process extracts each of these exponential phases from the pharmacokinetic profile in a manual fashion that does not require non-linear curve fitting. This method was originally used … Continued
The purpose of this study was to develop a pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic disease progression (PK/PD/DIS) model to characterize the effect of etanercept in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) rats on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) progression. The CIA rats received either 5 mg/kg intravenous (IV), 1 mg/kg IV, or 5 mg/kg subcutaneous (SC) etanercept at day 21 post-disease induction. Effect on … Continued
3,4,5-Trisubstituted-1,2,4-4H-triazoles (TTs) have recently been identified as a new class of potent non-nucleoside HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors. Two series of triazoles have been studied, one of which was also screened against the Y188L mutant. A computational strategy based on molecular docking studies followed by comparative molecular fields analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity indices … Continued
Mycobacterium tuberculosis pantothenate synthetase is a potential anti-tuberculosis target, and a high-throughput screening system was previously developed to identify its inhibitors. Using a similar system, we screened a small library of compounds and identified actinomycin D (ActD) as a weak inhibitor of pantothenate synthetase. A new method was established to discover more effective inhibitors by … Continued
Assess safety and tolerance of intravenous (IV) baclofen using a dog model. Prospective pharmacokinetic study involving 6 adult dogs. Two dogs received baclofen 10 mg oral and IV bolus doses. Subsequent 4 dogs were given IV boluses of 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mg/kg followed by constant infusion of baclofen (rates of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4 … Continued
Rifampin and carbamazepine have been recommended in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration draft drug interaction guidance as CYP3A4 inducers for clinical drug-drug interaction (DDI) studies. To optimize the dose regimens of these inducers for use in DDI studies, their effect at various doses and dosing durations on the area under the curve (AUC) of … Continued
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are believed to be among the causative agents for lung cancer in smokers. PAHs require metabolic activation for carcinogenicity. One pathway produces diol epoxides that react with DNA, causing mutations. Because diol epoxides are converted to tetraols, quantitation of tetraols can potentially be used to identify smokers who may be at … Continued
