PMID- 27245226 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170120 LR - 20190815 IS - 1550-7416 (Electronic) IS - 1550-7416 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 5 DP - 2016 Sep TI - Modeling the Disease Progression from Healthy to Overt Diabetes in ZDSD Rats. PG - 1203-1212 LID - 10.1208/s12248-016-9931-0 [doi] AB - Studying the critical transitional phase between healthy to overtly diabetic in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is of interest, but acquiring such clinical data is impractical due to ethical concerns and would require a long study duration. A population model using Zucker diabetic Sprague-Dawley (ZDSD) rats was developed to describe this transition through altering insulin sensitivity (IS, %) as a result of accumulating excess body weight and beta-cell function (BCF, %) to affect glucose-insulin homeostasis. Body weight, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), and fasting serum insulin (FSI) were collected biweekly over 24 weeks from ZDSD rats (n = 23) starting at age 7 weeks. A semi-mechanistic model previously developed with clinical data was adapted to rat data with BCF and IS estimated relative to humans. Non-linear mixed-effect model estimation was performed using NONMEM. Baseline IS and BCF were 41% compared to healthy humans. BCF was described with a non-linear rise which peaked at 14 weeks before gradually declining to a negligible level. A component for excess growth reflecting obesity was used to affect IS, and a glucose-dependent renal effect exerted a two- to sixfold increase on the elimination of glucose. A glucose-dependent weight loss effect towards the end of experiment was implemented. A semi-mechanistic model to describe the dynamics of glucose and insulin was successfully developed for a rat population, transitioning from healthy to advanced diabetes. It is also shown that weight loss can be modeled to mimic the glucotoxicity phenomenon seen in advanced hyperglycemia. FAU - Choy, Steve AU - Choy S AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, PO Box 591, 751 24, Uppsala, Sweden. steve.choy@farmbio.uu.se. FAU - de Winter, Willem AU - de Winter W AD - Janssen Prevention Center, Janssen Research and Development, Leiden, The Netherlands. FAU - Karlsson, Mats O AU - Karlsson MO AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, PO Box 591, 751 24, Uppsala, Sweden. FAU - Kjellsson, Maria C AU - Kjellsson MC AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, PO Box 591, 751 24, Uppsala, Sweden. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20160531 PL - United States TA - AAPS J JT - The AAPS journal JID - 101223209 RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Insulin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Blood Glucose/metabolism MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*blood/*pathology MH - *Disease Models, Animal MH - *Disease Progression MH - Insulin/blood MH - Male MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Rats, Zucker OTO - NOTNLM OT - ZDSD rats OT - disease progression OT - semi-mechanistic model OT - type 2 diabetes OT - weight EDAT- 2016/06/02 06:00 MHDA- 2017/01/21 06:00 CRDT- 2016/06/02 06:00 PHST- 2016/01/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/05/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/06/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/06/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/01/21 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1208/s12248-016-9931-0 [pii] AID - 10.1208/s12248-016-9931-0 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - AAPS J. 2016 Sep;18(5):1203-1212. doi: 10.1208/s12248-016-9931-0. Epub 2016 May 31.