PMID- 29961161 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190926 LR - 20191210 IS - 1573-8744 (Electronic) IS - 1567-567X (Linking) VI - 45 IP - 5 DP - 2018 Oct TI - Joint longitudinal model development: application to exposure-response modeling of ACR and DAS scores in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with sirukumab. PG - 679-691 LID - 10.1007/s10928-018-9598-5 [doi] AB - Exposure-response modeling is important to optimize dose and dosing regimen in clinical drug development. The joint modeling of multiple endpoints is made possible in part by recent progress in latent variable indirect response (IDR) modeling for ordered categorical endpoints. This manuscript presents the results of joint modeling of continuous and ordered categorical endpoints in the latent variable IDR modeling framework through the sharing of model parameters, with an application to the exposure-response modeling of sirukumab. Sirukumab is a human anti- interleukin-6 (IL-6) monoclonal antibody that binds soluble human IL-6 thus blocking IL-6 signaling, which plays a major role in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A phase 2 clinical trial was conducted in patients with active RA despite methotrexate therapy, who received subcutaneous (SC) administration of either placebo or sirukumab of 25, 50 or 100 mg every 4 weeks (q4w) or 100 mg every 2 weeks (q2w). Major efficacy endpoints were the 20, 50, and 70% improvement in the American College of Rheumatology (ACR20, ACR50, and ACR70) disease severity criteria, and the 28-joint disease activity score using C-reactive protein (DAS28). The ACR endpoints were treated as ordered categorical and DAS28 as continuous. The results showed that, compared with the common approach of separately modeling the endpoints, the joint model could describe the observed data better with fewer parameters through the sharing of random effects, and thus more precisely characterize the dose-response relationship. The implications on future dose and dosing regimen optimization are discussed in contrast with those from landmark analysis. FAU - Hu, Chuanpu AU - Hu C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7812-2778 AD - Global Clinical Pharmacology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. CHu25@its.jnj.com. FAU - Xu, Yan AU - Xu Y AD - Global Clinical Pharmacology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. FAU - Zhuang, Yanli AU - Zhuang Y AD - Global Clinical Pharmacology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. FAU - Hsu, Benjamin AU - Hsu B AD - Clinical Development, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. FAU - Sharma, Amarnath AU - Sharma A AD - Global Clinical Pharmacology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. FAU - Xu, Zhenhua AU - Xu Z AD - Global Clinical Pharmacology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. FAU - Zhang, Liping AU - Zhang L AD - Global Clinical Pharmacology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. FAU - Zhou, Honghui AU - Zhou H AD - Global Clinical Pharmacology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, PO Box 776, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA. LA - eng PT - Clinical Trial, Phase II PT - Journal Article PT - Multicenter Study PT - Randomized Controlled Trial PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180630 PL - United States TA - J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn JT - Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics JID - 101096520 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Monoclonal) RN - 0 (Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized) RN - 0 (Antirheumatic Agents) RN - 0 (Interleukin-6) RN - 640443FU93 (sirukumab) RN - 9007-41-4 (C-Reactive Protein) RN - YL5FZ2Y5U1 (Methotrexate) SB - IM MH - Antibodies, Monoclonal/*therapeutic use MH - Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized MH - Antirheumatic Agents/*therapeutic use MH - Arthritis, Rheumatoid/*drug therapy/metabolism MH - C-Reactive Protein/metabolism MH - Double-Blind Method MH - Endpoint Determination/methods MH - Humans MH - Injections, Subcutaneous/methods MH - Interleukin-6/metabolism MH - Longitudinal Studies MH - Methotrexate/therapeutic use OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bounded outcome score OT - Discrete variable OT - Joint modeling OT - NONMEM OT - Population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling EDAT- 2018/07/02 06:00 MHDA- 2019/09/27 06:00 CRDT- 2018/07/02 06:00 PHST- 2018/02/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/06/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/07/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/09/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/07/02 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s10928-018-9598-5 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s10928-018-9598-5 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn. 2018 Oct;45(5):679-691. doi: 10.1007/s10928-018-9598-5. Epub 2018 Jun 30.