JianHua Liu

TL;DR: It appears that most CNS-active agents demonstrate at least some P-gp-mediated transport that can affect brain concentrations, and unbound plasma concentrations may need to be greater than values projected using receptor affinity data to achieve adequate receptor occupancy for effect.

TL;DR: The present study demonstrates that rapid brain equilibration requires a combination of high BBB permeability and low brain tissue binding, and the strategy to select compounds with rapid brain Equilibration in drug discovery should identify compounds with highBBB permeable and low nonspecific binding in brain tissue.

TL;DR: For quick brain penetration with simple diffusion mechanism compounds, CCSF and Cu,plasma represent Cu,brain equally well; for efflux substrates or slow brain penetration compounds,CCSF appears to be equivalent to or more accurate than Cu, Plasma to representCu,brain.

TL;DR: This work defines the NMDAR occupancy (RO) time course following single doses of ketamine in rats, nonhuman primates (nhp) and humans to allow direct interspecies comparisons of specific ketamine-mediated pharmacodynamics via RO normalization.

TL;DR: The resulting empirically derived exposure-response continuum for PF-4778574 defines a single-dose-based TI of 8- to 16-fold for self-limiting tremor, a readily monitorable clinical adverse event.