Study of the combined effects of PTH treatment and mechanical loading in postmenopausal osteoporosis using a new mechanistic PK-PD model

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Lavaill, Maxence
Trichilo, Silvia
Scheiner, Stefan
Forwood, Mark R
Cooper, David ML
Pivonka, Peter
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2020
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One of only a few approved and available anabolic treatments for severe osteoporosis is daily injections of PTH (1-34). This drug has a specific dual action which can act either anabolically or catabolically depending on the type of administration, i.e. intermittent or continuous, respectively. In this paper, we present a mechanistic pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model of the action of PTH in postmenopausal osteoporosis. This model accounts for anabolic and catabolic activities in bone remodelling under intermittent and continuous administration of PTH. The model predicts evolution of common bone biomarkers and bone volume fraction (BV/TV) over time. We compared the relative changes in BV/TV resulting from a daily injection of 20 [Formula: see text]g of PTH with experimental data from the literature. Simulation results indicate a site-specific bone gain of 8.66[Formula: see text] (9.4 ± 1.13[Formula: see text]) at the lumbar spine and 3.14[Formula: see text] (2.82 ± 0.72[Formula: see text]) at the femoral neck. Bone gain depends nonlinearly on the administered dose, being, respectively, 0.68[Formula: see text], 3.4[Formula: see text] and 6.16[Formula: see text] for a 10, 20 and 40 [Formula: see text]g PTH dose at the FN over 2 years. Simulations were performed also taking into account a bone mechanical disuse to reproduce elderly frail subjects. The results show that mechanical disuse ablates the effects of PTH and leads to a 1.08% reduction of bone gain at the FN over a 2-year treatment period for the 20 [Formula: see text]g of PTH. The developed model can simulate a range of pathological conditions and treatments in bones including different PTH doses, different mechanical loading environments and combinations. Consequently, the model can be used for testing and generating hypotheses related to synergistic action between PTH treatment and physical activity.

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Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

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Lavaill, M; Trichilo, S; Scheiner, S; Forwood, MR; Cooper, DML; Pivonka, P, Study of the combined effects of PTH treatment and mechanical loading in postmenopausal osteoporosis using a new mechanistic PK-PD model, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2020

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