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dendPoint: a web resource for dendrimer pharmacokinetics investigation and prediction

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Authors

Kaminskas, Lisa M. 
Pires, Douglas E. V. 

Abstract

Abstract: Nanomedicine development currently suffers from a lack of efficient tools to predict pharmacokinetic behavior without relying upon testing in large numbers of animals, impacting success rates and development costs. This work presents dendPoint, the first in silico model to predict the intravenous pharmacokinetics of dendrimers, a commonly explored drug vector, based on physicochemical properties. We have manually curated the largest relational database of dendrimer pharmacokinetic parameters and their structural/physicochemical properties. This was used to develop a machine learning-based model capable of accurately predicting pharmacokinetic parameters, including half-life, clearance, volume of distribution and dose recovered in the liver and urine. dendPoint successfully predicts dendrimer pharmacokinetic properties, achieving correlations of up to r = 0.83 and Q2 up to 0.68. dendPoint is freely available as a user-friendly web-service and database at http://biosig.unimelb.edu.au/dendpoint. This platform is ultimately expected to be used to guide dendrimer construct design and refinement prior to embarking on more time consuming and expensive in vivo testing.

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Article, /631/114/2397, /631/114/129, /631/114/1305, /119, article

Journal Title

Scientific Reports

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Journal ISSN

2045-2322

Volume Title

9

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group UK