Dissertation
Mechanistic modelling of drug target binding kinetics as determinant of the time course of drug action in vivo
Drug-target binding kinetics determine the time course of the central event in pharmacotherapy: Drug-target interaction.
- Author
- Witte, W.E.A. de
- Date
- 19 December 2017
- Links
- Thesis in Leiden Repository
Drug-target binding kinetics determine the time course of the central event in pharmacotherapy: Drug-target interaction. However, the time course of a drug effect is also influenced by many other physiological processes such as the metabolism and excretion of a drug and the transduction of the relevant biological signals. In this study, we investigate when target binding kinetics are determining the time course of drug effect and generate understanding into the relation between the parameter values and the rate-limiting step in the duration of a drug effect.