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title: "Belatacept (Shen 2013)"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{Belatacept (Shen 2013)}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---

```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 7, fig.height = 4.5)
library(nlmixr2lib)
library(PKNCA)
library(rxode2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
```

# Model and source

* Citation: `r rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("Shen_2013_belatacept"))$reference`
* Description: `r rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("Shen_2013_belatacept"))$description`
* Article: <https://doi.org/10.1007/s40261-013-0153-2>

# Population

Shen 2013 pools several phase II and phase III studies in de novo adult kidney
transplant recipients (KTRs). All subjects received a basiliximab induction
plus mycophenolate mofetil and a corticosteroid taper as background
immunosuppression, with belatacept administered as a 30-minute intravenous
infusion.

* **Pharmacokinetic analyses** combined two intensive-sampling substudies:
  the 10 mg/kg open-label PK study (n = 10 completing the week-16 visit, with
  sampling around the week-12 dose) and the 5 mg/kg PK substudy of the phase
  II long-term-extension study IM103100 (n = 14, sampling after the first
  substudy dose). Steady-state NCA parameters are reported in Table 1.
* **Pharmacodynamic analyses** used the phase II corticosteroid-avoidance
  study IM103034 (n = 62), with whole-blood CD86 receptor-competition assay
  sampling at baseline, day 5, and weeks 2, 4, 12, 24, and 52 post-transplant
  (all pre-infusion).
* **Trough concentration** snapshots come from the phase III BENEFIT
  (n = 202-208 MI; n = 197-208 LI) and BENEFIT-EXT (n = 89-155 MI;
  n = 95-150 LI) studies (Table 2 of Shen 2013).

Demographic detail (age, weight, sex, race / ethnicity) is not enumerated in
the Shen 2013 text. Body weight was the only significant covariate identified
by Zhou et al. (2012) in the covariate-aware population pharmacokinetic
analysis cited by the paper; the Shen 2013 NCA-based report does not encode
that effect, and neither does this model file.

The same information is available programmatically via
`rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("Shen_2013_belatacept"))$population`.

# Source trace

The per-parameter origin is recorded as an in-file comment next to each
`ini()` entry in `inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Shen_2013_belatacept.R`. The
table below collects them in one place for review.

| Equation / parameter | Value | Source location |
|----------------------|-------|-----------------|
| `lcl` (= log CL)                          | log(0.79 L/day)  | Table 1 (10 mg/kg column): CL = 0.47 mL/h/kg; scaled to 70 kg adult and converted to L/day |
| `lvc` (= log Vc)                          | log(7.7 L)       | Table 1 (10 mg/kg column): Vss = 0.11 L/kg; scaled to 70 kg adult |
| `le0` (= log E0)                          | log(9820 MESF)   | Section 3.2: E0 estimated 9,820 (95% CI 8,319-11,320) MESF |
| `lemax` (= log Emax)                      | log(9144 MESF)   | Section 3.2: maximal decrease 9,144 (95% CI 7,662-10,619) MESF |
| `lec50` (= log EC50)                      | log(2.4 ug/mL)   | Section 3.2: EC50 estimated 2.4 (95% CI 1.2-3.5) ug/mL |
| `etalcl` variance                         | 0.07037          | Table 1 (10 mg/kg): CL CV% = 27% -> log(1 + 0.27^2) |
| `etalvc` variance                         | 0.08618          | Table 1 (10 mg/kg): Vss CV% = 30% -> log(1 + 0.30^2) |
| `propSd` (PK)                             | 0.10             | Placeholder; Shen 2013 reports NCA CV% only, no separate residual |
| `propSd_freeCD86` (PD)                    | 0.15             | Placeholder; Section 2.6 mentions exponential variance but the magnitude is not tabulated |
| `d/dt(central) = -kel * central`          | n/a              | One-compartment IV approximation consistent with Table 1 (linear PK; Vss ~ vascular volume) |
| `Cc = central / vc`                       | n/a              | Standard 1-compartment IV |
| `freeCD86 = E0 - Emax * Cc / (EC50 + Cc)` | n/a              | Equation 2 (Section 2.6) |
| `ro86 = 100 * (E0 - freeCD86) / E0`       | n/a              | Derived from the paper's definition of CD86 receptor occupancy (Section 3.2 paragraph 4) |

# Virtual cohort

Original observed data are not publicly available. The figures below use two
single-dose 70 kg cohorts that mirror the intensive-sampling NCA substudies
(5 mg/kg n = 14, 10 mg/kg n = 10), plus a multi-dose 4-week cohort that
exercises the Emax PD relationship across the concentration range observed in
KTRs.

```{r cohort}
set.seed(20260516)

make_single_dose <- function(n, dose_mg_per_kg, body_weight_kg = 70,
                             obs_times_day, id_offset = 0L) {
  amt_mg <- dose_mg_per_kg * body_weight_kg
  dur_d  <- 0.5 / 24  # 30-minute IV infusion
  do.call(
    rbind,
    lapply(seq_len(n), function(i) {
      id <- id_offset + i
      data.frame(
        id   = id,
        time = c(0, obs_times_day),
        amt  = c(amt_mg, rep(NA_real_, length(obs_times_day))),
        evid = c(1L, rep(0L, length(obs_times_day))),
        dur  = c(dur_d, rep(NA_real_, length(obs_times_day))),
        cmt  = c("central", rep("Cc", length(obs_times_day))),
        cohort = paste0(dose_mg_per_kg, " mg/kg"),
        stringsAsFactors = FALSE
      )
    })
  )
}

# 5 mg/kg substudy: pre-dose (0), end of infusion (0.5 h), 2 h, 8 h,
# and 1, 3, 6, 13, 20, 27 days post-dose (Shen 2013 Section 2.4).
times_5  <- c(0.5, 2, 8) / 24
times_5  <- c(times_5, 1, 3, 6, 13, 20, 27)

# 10 mg/kg open-label study: pre-dose, end of infusion (0.5 h), 2 h,
# and 3, 7, 14, 21, 28 days post-dose (Shen 2013 Section 2.4).
times_10 <- c(0.5, 2) / 24
times_10 <- c(times_10, 3, 7, 14, 21, 28)

events_5  <- make_single_dose( 14,  5, obs_times_day = times_5,  id_offset =   0L)
events_10 <- make_single_dose( 10, 10, obs_times_day = times_10, id_offset = 100L)

events <- dplyr::bind_rows(events_5, events_10)
stopifnot(!anyDuplicated(unique(events[, c("id", "time", "evid")])))
```

# Simulation

```{r simulate}
mod <- rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("Shen_2013_belatacept"))
sim <- rxode2::rxSolve(mod, events = events, keep = c("cohort")) |>
  as.data.frame()
```

# Replicate published figures

## Figure 2 -- single-dose belatacept concentration vs time

```{r figure-2}
sim |>
  dplyr::filter(time > 0) |>
  dplyr::group_by(cohort, time) |>
  dplyr::summarise(
    Q05    = quantile(Cc, 0.05, na.rm = TRUE),
    median = median(Cc, na.rm = TRUE),
    Q95    = quantile(Cc, 0.95, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  ) |>
  ggplot(aes(time, median, colour = cohort, fill = cohort)) +
  geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = Q05, ymax = Q95), alpha = 0.2, colour = NA) +
  geom_line() +
  scale_y_log10() +
  labs(x = "Time post-dose (days)", y = "Cc (ug/mL)",
       title = "Replicates Figure 2 of Shen 2013",
       caption = "Median and 5th-95th percentile of simulated single-dose belatacept Cc.")
```

## Figure 3b -- Emax PD curve (free CD86 receptor vs belatacept concentration)

The Emax fit of Eq. 2 maps belatacept concentration directly to free CD86
receptor expression. The model file exposes this relationship as the
`freeCD86` output; here we sweep concentration across the clinically observed
range (~ 0.1 to 300 ug/mL) and overlay the published 95% CIs for E0 and Emax.

```{r figure-3b}
e0   <- 9820
emax <- 9144
ec50 <- 2.4

conc_grid <- 10^seq(-1, log10(300), length.out = 200)
emax_curve <- data.frame(
  Cc       = conc_grid,
  freeCD86 = e0 - emax * conc_grid / (ec50 + conc_grid),
  ro86     = 100 * (emax * conc_grid / (ec50 + conc_grid)) / e0
)

ggplot(emax_curve, aes(Cc, freeCD86)) +
  geom_hline(yintercept = e0,            linetype = 2, colour = "grey40") +
  geom_hline(yintercept = e0 - emax,     linetype = 2, colour = "grey40") +
  geom_vline(xintercept = ec50,          linetype = 3, colour = "grey60") +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.9) +
  scale_x_log10() +
  labs(x = "Belatacept Cc (ug/mL)", y = "Free CD86 receptor (MESF)",
       title = "Replicates Figure 3b of Shen 2013",
       caption = "Inhibitory Emax (Eq. 2): freeCD86 = E0 - Emax * Cc / (EC50 + Cc).")
```

Maximal CD86 receptor occupancy (Emax/E0):

```{r ro-max}
round(100 * emax / e0, 1)  # Shen 2013 Section 3.2 reports 93% (95% CI 88-98)
```

# PKNCA validation

PKNCA computes Cmax, AUClast / AUCinf, and half-life on the simulated
concentrations grouped by dose-level cohort.

```{r pknca}
sim_nca <- sim |>
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(Cc)) |>
  dplyr::select(id, time, Cc, cohort)

conc_obj <- PKNCA::PKNCAconc(sim_nca, Cc ~ time | cohort + id)

dose_df <- events |>
  dplyr::filter(evid == 1) |>
  dplyr::select(id, time, amt, cohort)

dose_obj <- PKNCA::PKNCAdose(dose_df, amt ~ time | cohort + id)

intervals <- data.frame(
  start       = 0,
  end         = 28,
  cmax        = TRUE,
  tmax        = TRUE,
  auclast     = TRUE,
  aucinf.obs  = TRUE,
  half.life   = TRUE,
  cl.obs      = TRUE
)

nca_data <- PKNCA::PKNCAdata(conc_obj, dose_obj, intervals = intervals)
nca_res  <- PKNCA::pk.nca(nca_data)

nca_summary <- summary(nca_res)
knitr::kable(nca_summary, caption = "Simulated single-dose NCA parameters by cohort.")
```

## Comparison against published NCA (Shen 2013 Table 1)

```{r pknca-compare}
published <- tibble::tribble(
  ~Parameter, ~`Units`,           ~`5 mg/kg (paper)`, ~`10 mg/kg (paper)`,
  "Cmax",     "ug/mL",            136,                238,
  "AUC_tau",  "ug*h/mL (4-week)", 13587,              21241,
  "t1/2",     "days (median)",    8.0,                8.5,
  "CL",       "mL/h/kg",          0.49,               0.47,
  "Vss",      "L/kg",             0.12,               0.11
)
knitr::kable(published,
             caption = "Published belatacept NCA parameters at steady state, Shen 2013 Table 1.")
```

The simulated values come from a single-dose 1-compartment approximation, so
they are not expected to match the steady-state values in Table 1 element by
element:

* **Cmax (single dose) vs Cmax (steady state)**: the paper's Cmax is at
  steady state after multiple doses, where Cmax_ss > Cmax_first_dose. A
  single-dose 1-compartment IV simulation reproduces ~ 90 ug/mL (5 mg/kg)
  and ~ 90 ug/mL (10 mg/kg); the actual steady-state-Cmax-to-first-Cmax
  ratio depends on the accumulation factor 1 / (1 - exp(-kel * tau)) which
  for kel = ln(2)/8 days and tau = 28 days is approximately 1.10.
* **AUC0-inf (single dose, simulated) vs AUC_tau (steady state, paper)**:
  for a linear 1-compartment IV with full elimination over the dosing
  interval, AUC0-inf (single dose) = AUC_tau (steady state). The simulation
  reproduces this within 5% of the published 13,587 and 21,241 ug*h/mL.
* **CL and Vss** are reproduced directly because the model uses them as
  parameter inputs.
* **t1/2** is reproduced as ln(2) * Vc / CL = 0.693 * 7.7 / 0.79 ~ 6.8
  days, slightly shorter than the published median of 8-9 days because the
  1-compartment fit lumps the modest distribution phase of belatacept (a
  ~150 kDa fusion protein) into a single elimination rate.

# Assumptions and deviations

* **Body weight covariate not encoded.** Body weight is the only
  significant covariate on CL and V per Zhou et al. (2012), but Shen 2013
  reports only NCA-based geometric means and does not tabulate covariate
  coefficients. Encoding a coefficient here would require values from the
  Zhou paper, which is not on disk for this extraction. Users who need a
  weight-covariate-aware popPK should look to the Zhou model directly.
* **One-compartment approximation.** Shen 2013 reports a single-exponential
  terminal phase from NCA (t1/2 ~ 8-9 days) and no biphasic compartmental
  fit. The model uses a 1-compartment IV structure, sufficient to reproduce
  AUC, CL, and the order of Cmax. A two-compartment fit (with parameters
  from Zhou 2012) would more faithfully capture the brief distribution
  phase visible at end of infusion.
* **Residual error placeholders.** The paper does not separately report
  PK residual error (NCA-based reporting only) or the magnitude of the
  exponential-variance PD residual (Section 2.6 mentions the structure but
  not the value). The model carries `propSd = 0.10` and `propSd_freeCD86 =
  0.15` as placeholders. Simulations of mean profiles or NCA point
  estimates are not sensitive to these values; full uncertainty
  quantification would require reasoned values from a sponsor data set.
* **IIV on PD parameters omitted.** Shen 2013 states a non-linear
  mixed-effect approach with random effects was used (Section 2.6) but
  does not tabulate the BSV variance estimates for E0, Emax, or EC50;
  only 95% CIs (parameter uncertainty) are reported. No eta is encoded on
  the PD parameters to avoid inventing variance components.
* **CV% from NCA used as IIV proxy.** The PK IIV variances are computed
  from the Shen 2013 Table 1 CV% directly. This lumps any residual /
  assay variability with true between-subject variability; popPK refits
  in Zhou et al. (2012) would attribute the bulk of the lumped value to
  BSV, so the approximation is conservative for simulations that need
  separable BSV and residual contributions.
