Abstract

Organ-on-a-chip (OoC) systems are a promising new class of invitro devices that can combine various tissues, cultured in different compartments, linked by media flow. The properties of these novel invitro systems linked to increased physiological relevance of culture conditions may lead to more invivo-relevant cell phenotypes, enabling better invitro pharmacology and toxicology assessment. Improved cell activities combined with longer lasting cultures offer opportunities to improve the characterization of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) processes, potentially leading to more accurate prediction of human pharmacokinetics (PKs). The inclusion of barrier tissue elements and metabolically competent tissue types results in complex concentration-time profiles (in vitro PK) for test drugs and their metabolites that require appropriate mathematical modeling of invitro data for parameter estimation. In particular, modeling is critical to estimate invitro ADME parameters when multiple different tissues are combined in a single device. Therefore, sophisticated in silico data analysis and a priori experimental design are highly recommended for OoC experiments in a manner not needed with standard ADME screening. The design of the experiment should be optimized based on an investigation of the structural characteristics of the invitro system, the ADME features of the test compound and any available knowledge of cell phenotypes. This tutorial aims to provide such a modeling framework to inform experimental design and refine parameter estimation in a Gut-Liver OoC (the most studied multi-organ systems to predict the oral drug PKs) to improve translatability of data generated in such complex cellular systems.

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