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On the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs

BACKGROUND: Nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs (NDNBs) are clinically used to produce muscle relaxation during general anesthesia. To better understand clinical properties of NDNBs, comparative in vitro pharmacologic studies have been performed. In these studies, a receptor binding model,...

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Autores principales: Hoshino, Hikaru, Furutani, Eiko
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8379761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34419079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12976-021-00147-w
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description BACKGROUND: Nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs (NDNBs) are clinically used to produce muscle relaxation during general anesthesia. To better understand clinical properties of NDNBs, comparative in vitro pharmacologic studies have been performed. In these studies, a receptor binding model, which relies on the assumption that the inhibition, i.e., the effect of an NDNB, is proportional to the receptor occupancy by the drug, has been effectively used to describe obtained experimental data. However, it has not been studied in literature under which conditions the above assumption can be justified nor the assumption still holds in vivo. The purpose of this study is to explore the in vivo relationship between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy by an NDNB and to draw implications on how in vitro experimental results can be used to discuss the in vivo properties of NDNBs. METHODS: An ordinary differential equation model is employed to simulate physiologic processes of the activation of receptors by acetylcholine (ACh) as well as inhibition by an NDNB. With this model, the degree of inhibition is quantified by the fractional amount of receptors that are not activated by ACh due to the presence of an NDNB. The results are visualized by plotting the fractional amounts of the activated receptors as a function of the receptor occupancy. RESULTS: Numerical investigations reflecting in vivo conditions show that the degree of inhibition is not proportional to the receptor occupancy, i.e., there is a nonlinear relationship between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy. However, under a setting of high concentration of ACh reflecting a typical situation of in vitro experiments, the relationship between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy becomes linear, suggesting the validity of the receptor binding model. Also, it is found that the extent of nonlinearity depends on the selectivity of NDNBs for the two binding sites of the receptors. CONCLUSIONS: While the receptor binding model may be effective for estimating affinity of an NDNB through in vitro experiments, these models do not directly describe in vivo properties of NDNBs, because the nonlinearity between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy causes the modulation of the resultant concentration-effect relationships of NDNBs.
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spelling pubmed-83797612021-08-23 On the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs Hoshino, Hikaru Furutani, Eiko Theor Biol Med Model Research BACKGROUND: Nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs (NDNBs) are clinically used to produce muscle relaxation during general anesthesia. To better understand clinical properties of NDNBs, comparative in vitro pharmacologic studies have been performed. In these studies, a receptor binding model, which relies on the assumption that the inhibition, i.e., the effect of an NDNB, is proportional to the receptor occupancy by the drug, has been effectively used to describe obtained experimental data. However, it has not been studied in literature under which conditions the above assumption can be justified nor the assumption still holds in vivo. The purpose of this study is to explore the in vivo relationship between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy by an NDNB and to draw implications on how in vitro experimental results can be used to discuss the in vivo properties of NDNBs. METHODS: An ordinary differential equation model is employed to simulate physiologic processes of the activation of receptors by acetylcholine (ACh) as well as inhibition by an NDNB. With this model, the degree of inhibition is quantified by the fractional amount of receptors that are not activated by ACh due to the presence of an NDNB. The results are visualized by plotting the fractional amounts of the activated receptors as a function of the receptor occupancy. RESULTS: Numerical investigations reflecting in vivo conditions show that the degree of inhibition is not proportional to the receptor occupancy, i.e., there is a nonlinear relationship between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy. However, under a setting of high concentration of ACh reflecting a typical situation of in vitro experiments, the relationship between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy becomes linear, suggesting the validity of the receptor binding model. Also, it is found that the extent of nonlinearity depends on the selectivity of NDNBs for the two binding sites of the receptors. CONCLUSIONS: While the receptor binding model may be effective for estimating affinity of an NDNB through in vitro experiments, these models do not directly describe in vivo properties of NDNBs, because the nonlinearity between the inhibition and the receptor occupancy causes the modulation of the resultant concentration-effect relationships of NDNBs. BioMed Central 2021-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8379761/ /pubmed/34419079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12976-021-00147-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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On the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
title On the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
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title_fullStr On the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
title_full_unstemmed On the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
title_short On the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
title_sort on the relationship between inhibition and receptor occupancy by nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8379761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34419079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12976-021-00147-w
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