Hi Everyone,

I am trying to relate my compound, THC and metabolite, THC-OH, concentrations 
to psychological highness (on scale of 0-10) using effect compartment approach. 
This effect compartment model is well validated in literature for these two 
compounds. When I run my model, I get the following error. I have tried ADVAN 
6,8 AND 13 but no success so far. I have attached sample of my dataset and the 
control stream. Both THC and THC-OH has peripheral compartments. TYPE 3 equates 
to THC conc, TYPE2 equates to metabolite conc, and TYPE 1 equates to highness. 
CMT 1 and CMT4 denote THC and THCOH concentration in central compartment, 
respectively.

Please let me know of any possible solutions.

"OCCURS DURING SEARCH FOR ETA AT A NONZERO VALUE OF ETA
NUMERICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH INTEGRATION ROUTINE.
 NO. OF REQUIRED SIGNIFICANT DIGITS IN SOLUTION VECTOR
 TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS,   3, MAY BE TOO LARGE. "

          ID                                 TIME                              
DV                  CMT           TYPE1      TYPE2         TYPE3           MDV
1204
9:38
21138
79.9
1
0
0
1
1
1204
9:38
.
7
             .
1
0
0
0
1204
9:38
.
10.1
4
0
1
0
0


$SUBROUTINE ADVAN6 TRANS1 TOL=3

$MODEL NCOMP = 6
COMP = (CENTRAL)
COMP = (PERIPH)
COMP = (EFFTHC)
COMP = (METABOL)
COMP = (METABOL2)
COMP= (EFFTHCOH)

$PK
Q1          =THETA(1)*EXP(ETA(1))                ; Inter-compartment clearance 
for THC
V1          =THETA(2)*EXP(ETA(2))                 ; V - THC - Central Comp
V2          =THETA(3)*EXP(ETA(3))                 ; V - THC - Peripheral Comp
K14        =THETA(4)*EXP(ETA(4))                 ; Metabolite conversion
Q2          =THETA(5)*EXP(ETA(5))                 ; Inter-compartment clearance 
for THC-OH
V4          =THETA(6)*EXP(ETA(6))                 ; V - THCOH - Central Comp
V5          =THETA(7)*EXP(ETA(7))                 ; V - THCOH - Peripheral Comp
CL           =THETA(8)*EXP(ETA(8))                 ; Clearance
KE01      =THETA(9)*EXP(ETA(9))                 ; rate constant for THC effect 
compartment
KE02      =THETA(10)*EXP(ETA(10))             ;  rate constant for THCOH effect 
compartment
S1=V1
S4=V4
A_0(1)=0
A_0(3)=0
A_0(4)=0
A_0(6)=0

$DES
C1=A(1)/V1
C3=A(3)
C4=A(4)/V4
C6=A(6)
DADT(1) = (Q1/V2)*A(2) - (Q1/V1)*A(1) - K14*A(1)
DADT(2) = (Q1/V1)*A(1) - (Q1/V2)*A(2)
DADT(3) = KE01*C1 - KE01*A(3)
DADT(4) = K14*A(1) - (CL/V4)*A(4) - (Q2/V4)*A(4) + (Q2/V5)*A(5)
DADT(5) = (Q2/V4)*A(4) - (Q2/V5)*A(5)
DADT(6) = KE02*C4 - KE02*A(6)

$ERROR
CE1=A(3)
CP=A(1)/V1
CE2=A(6)
CM=A(4)/V4
EMAX = THETA(11)*EXP(ETA(11))
EC50 = THETA(12)*EXP(ETA(12))
HILL = THETA(13)*EXP(ETA(13))
CONC = CP*(1 + ERR(1)) + ERR(2)
CONCMET = CM + ERR(3)
E = EMAX*(((CE1**HILL)+(CE2**HILL))/((EC50**HILL)+((CE1**HILL)+(CE2**HILL))))
EFF = E + ERR(4)
IF(TYPE3.EQ.1) IPRED = CP
IF(TYPE2.EQ.1) IPRED = CM
IF(TYPE1.EQ.1) IPRED = E
Y = (CONC*TYPE3) + (EFF*TYPE1) + (CONCMET*TYPE2)

$THETA
(0, 6.964)             ;[Q1]
(0, 20)                  ;[V1]
(0, 50)  ;[V2]
(0, 10)                  ;[K14]
(0, 10)                  ;[Q2]
(0, 40)                  ;[V4]
(0, 50)                  ;[V5]
(0, 102.95)          ;[CL]
(0,5,50)                ;[KE01]
(0,5,50)                ;[KE02]
10 FIX                   ;[EMAX]
(1, 50, 400)         ;[EC50]
(0.1, 1,5)             ;[HILL]

$OMEGA
0.0152 ; [P] omega(1,1)
0.005     ; [P] omega(2,2)
0.06       ; [P] omega(3,3)
0.04       ; [P] omega(4,4)
0.03       ; [P] omega(5,5)
0.06       ; [P] omega(6,6)
0.03       ; [P] omega(7,7)
0.07       ; [P] omega(8,8)
0.06       ; [P] omega(9,9)
0.05       ; [P] omega(10,10)
0.05       ; [P] omega(11,11)
0.06       ; [P] omega(12,12)
0.06       ; [P] omega(13,13)

$SIGMA
0.5 ; [ERR1]
0.5 ; [ERR3]
0.5 ; [ERR4]

$SIGMA
0.00001 FIX ;[ERR2]


$EST METHOD=1 MAXEVAL=9999 PRINT=5 SIG=3 NOABORT MSFO=2010-2013.MSF
$COV

Regards,

Sumeet K. Singla
Ph.D. Candidate
Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics
College of Pharmacy | University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
sumeet-sin...@uiowa.edu<mailto:sumeet-sin...@uiowa.edu>
518.577.5881

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