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Methods: Data for adalimumab concentrations and immunogenicity response over 10 weeks were obtained from 133 healthy subjects receiving a 40 mg dose of Humira® in a PK similarity study. Also, a population PK model with a mechanistic construct for delineating the interplay between adalimumab disposition and antidrug antibodies response was utilized to estimate via simulation the probability that a PK similarity study would fail in typical study settings.
Results: The simulations showed that the immunogenicity response can have a profound impact on the outcome of PK similarity determination. As such, the probability of failing to achieve the similarity conclusion increased to 51.9%, from 13.8% in the absence of immunogenicity response.
Conclusion: This study provides a model-based framework for better understanding of how a PK similarity study can be optimally designed and for interpretation of the outcome of PK similarity determination when the drug disposition is affected in the presence of immunogenicity response.
SUBMITTER: Liao KH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576624 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liao Kai H KH Udata Chandrasekhar C Yin Donghua D Sewell K Lea KL Kantaridis Constantino C Alvarez Daniel F DF Meng Xu X
British journal of clinical pharmacology 20200511 11
<h4>Aims</h4>Single-dose pharmacokinetic (PK) studies in healthy subjects have been the design of choice for bioequivalence determination for decades. This preference has been recently extended to PK similarity studies of proposed biosimilars. However, PK similarity studies can be complicated by the effect of immunogenicity response on drug disposition. The impact is exacerbated when there is an imbalance in host-specific immunological characteristics of subjects between the test and reference g ...[more]