Hi,

Thank you for your reply. You mentioned that you cannot see from the data
whether they correspond to the indirect response model with inhibition. Can
you advise me how I can infer from the data what kind of model this PD data
should correspond to?

And if it's not an indirect response model, what other models do u suggest I
use?

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Leonid Gibiansky <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The code looks OK, but I cannot see from the data whether they indeed
> correspond to the indirect response with inhibition. Looks like random
> oscillations to me. This could be a reason for error messages.
>
> I would try to fix ETA_Kin or ETA_Kout to zero and use only additive (or
> proportional) error. Also, it will not help convergence but it is more
> mechanistic to use
>
> CONC = A(2)/S2
> INH  =CONC/(IC50+CONC)
>
> Then IC50 will be in concentrations rather than in amounts.
>
> Also, TOL=3 is to small. Try to use TOL=6 at least (better 7 or 8). Same
> for PK: TOL=3 is not good for the final model.
>
> Regards
> Leonid
>
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>
>
>
>
> On 2/11/2011 10:35 AM, xin yi wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm new to nonmem and would be grateful for some pointers and help. I'm
>> trying to do a pk-pd sequential modelling. I have modelled the PK data
>> but I've encountered problems with PD. My PD model is a indirect
>> inhibition response model. I have tried to change my initial estimates
>> reduce the number of parameters in the model, but nothing seem to get me
>> a good convergence. At different times, NONMEM gives me different error
>> messages such as "parameter estimates near its boundary", "Minimisation
>> successful. However problems occured with the minimization"(blank
>> entries for omega or sigma estimates in the results file) ///or the "r
>> matrix is algorithmically singular and non-positive definite". I have a
>> few questions:
>>
>> 1) Are there any errors in the way I input my control and data file?
>> 2) Under $ERROR in the control file, did I define it correctly with
>> EFF=A(4), Y//=EFF+EFF*ERR(1)+ERR(2)/? Or should it be IPRED=F,
>> Y=F+F*ERR(1)+ERR(2).
>> 3) Why are they no estimates for sigma and omega in the results file? I
>> have been constantly changing my initial estimates for omega and sigma
>> but they always give me nil results.
>>
>> I appreciate any help on this matter. Thanks!
>>
>> Regards,
>> X.Y. Ng
>> /
>> *This is an example of my control file:*
>>
>> $PROB RUN# pd_3_advan6
>> $INPUT ID TIME DV AMT CMT ADDL II MDV V2I V3I QI CLI KAI
>>
>> $DATA FINAL2.2.CSV IGNORE=C
>> $SUBROUTINES ADVAN6 TRANS1 TOL=3
>> $MODEL
>>    COMP=DEPOT
>>    COMP=CENTRAL
>>    COMP=PERIPH
>>    COMP=EFFECT  ;$MODEL defines the no of compartments in the model
>>
>> $PK
>>
>>    V2=V2I
>>    V3=V3I
>>    Q=QI
>>    CL=CLI
>>    KA=KAI
>>    S2=V2
>>    S3=V3
>>    KIN=THETA(1)*EXP(ETA(1))
>>    KOUT=THETA(2)*EXP(ETA(2))
>>    IC50=THETA(3)*EXP(ETA(3))
>>    F4=KIN/KOUT
>>
>> $DES
>>   DADT(1)=-KA*A(1)
>>   DADT(2)=KA*A(1)-Q/V2*A(2)+Q/V3*A(3)-CL/V2*A(2)
>>   DADT(3)=-Q/V3*A(3)+Q/V2*A(2)
>>   INH    =A(2)/(IC50+A(2))
>>   DADT(4)=KIN*(1-INH)-KOUT*A(4)
>>
>> $ERROR
>>    CP2=A(2)/S2
>>    CP3=A(3)/S3
>>    ;IPRED=F
>>    EFF=A(4)
>>    Y=EFF+EFF*ERR(1)+ERR(2)
>>
>> $THETA (0,0.281)       ;POPKin
>> $THETA (0,0.003)    ;POPkout
>> $THETA (0,2)       ;POPIC50
>>
>> $OMEGA 0.003         ;BSV Kin
>> $OMEGA 0.003        ;BSV Kout
>> $OMEGA 0.003         ;BSV IC50
>>
>> $SIGMA 0.01         ;ERRCCV
>> $SIGMA 0.0015        ;ERRADD
>>
>> $ESTIMATION METHOD=1 INTERACTION NOABORT MAXEVAL=9990 PRINT=10 POSTHOC
>> $COVARIANCE
>> $TABLE ID TIME DV AMT CMT NOPRINT ONEHEADER FILE=pd_3_advan6.TAB
>>
>> *and an example of my data:*
>>
>> /
>> CID     TIME    DV      AMT     CMT     ADDL    II      MDV     V2I
>> V3I     QI      CLI     KAI
>> 101     0       0       100     1       2       8       1       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     0       0       1       4       0       0       1       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     3       243     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     7       293     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     11      261     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     15      260     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     19      277     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     23      290     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     35      233     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     39      271     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     43      274     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>> 101     47      276     0       4       0       0       0       44.55
>> 11.78   1.07    3.37    0.62
>>
>> /
>> /
>>
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