Simultaneous analysis of families of sigmoidal curves: application to bioassay, radioligand assay, and physiological dose-response curves.

1978 ◽  
Vol 235 (2) ◽  
pp. E97 ◽  
Author(s):  
A DeLean ◽  
P J Munson ◽  
D Rodbard

Physiological and pharmacological studies of hormones, drugs, and neurotransmitters often generate families of sigmoidal dose-response curves. Optimally efficient data analysis should involve simultaneous description of all curves, rather than fitting each one individually. We have developed a general computerized method to describe the dose-response curves in terms of basal and maximal responses, ED50, and curve shape or steepness. This facile method permits rigorous statistical analysis, provides a basis for pooling of information from separate experiments, and allows one to test which characteristics are shared by various curves.

2005 ◽  
Vol 289 (3) ◽  
pp. E363-E365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Curran-Everett

This essay examines the historical significance of two APS classic papers that are freely available online: De Léan A, Munson PJ, and Rodbard D. Simultaneous analysis of families of sigmoidal curves: application to bioassay, radioligand assay, and physiological dose-response curves. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab Gastrointest Physiol 235: E97–E102, 1978 ( http://ajplegacy.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/235/2/E97 ). Merriam GR and Wachter KW.Algorithms for the study of episodic hormone secretion. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 243: E310–E318, 1982 ( http://ajplegacy.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/243/4/E310 ).


Vaccines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
John Benest ◽  
Sophie Rhodes ◽  
Sara Afrough ◽  
Thomas Evans ◽  
Richard White

Vaccine dose-response curves can follow both saturating and peaking shapes. Dose-response curves for adenoviral vector vaccines have not been systematically described. In this paper, we explore the dose-response shape of published adenoviral animal and human studies. Where data were informative, dose-response was approximately five times more likely to be peaking than saturating. There was evidence that host species and response type may be sufficient for prediction of dose-response curve shape. Dose-response curve shape prediction could decrease clinical trial costs, accelerating the development of life-saving vaccines.


Synapse ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Pitts ◽  
Mark D. Kelland ◽  
Roh-Yu Shen ◽  
Arthur S. Freeman ◽  
Louis A. Chiodo

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 (02/03) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Haverkate ◽  
D. W Traas

SummaryIn the fibrin plate assay different types of relationships between the dose of applied proteolytic enzyme and the response have been previously reported. This study was undertaken to determine whether a generally valid relationship might exist.Trypsin, chymotrypsin, papain, the plasminogen activator urokinase and all of the microbial proteases investigated, including brinase gave a linear relationship between the logarithm of the enzyme concentration and the diameter of the circular lysed zone. A similar linearity of dose-response curves has frequently been found by investigators who used enzyme plate assays with substrates different from fibrin incorporated in an agar gel. Consequently, it seems that this linearity of dose-response curves is generally valid for the fibrin plate assay as well as for other enzyme plate bioassays.Both human plasmin and porcine tissue activator of plasminogen showed deviations from linearity of semi-logarithmic dose-response curves in the fibrin plate assay.


1962 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Henriques

ABSTRACT A bioassay of thyroid hormone has been developed using Xenopus larvae made hypothyroid by the administration of thiourea. Only tadpoles of uniform developmental rate were used. Thiourea was given just before the metamorphotic climax in concentrations that produced neoteni in an early metamorphotic stage. During maintained thiourea neotoni, 1-thyroxine and 1-triiodothyronine were added as sodium salts to the water for three days and at the end of one week the stage of metamorphosis produced was determined. In this way identical dose-response curves were obtained for the two compounds. No qualitative differences between their effects were noted except that triiodothyronine seemed more toxic than thyroxine in equivalent doses. Triiodothyronine was found to be 7–12 times as active as thyroxine.


2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. E269-E274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydney L. Gaynor ◽  
Gregory D. Byrd ◽  
Michael D. Diodato ◽  
Yosuke Ishii ◽  
Anson M. Lee ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quinton J. Nottingham ◽  
Jeffrey B. Birch ◽  
Barry A. Bodt

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Peter Bracke ◽  
Eowyn Van de Putte ◽  
Wouter R. Ryckaert

Dose-response curves for circadian phase shift and melatonin suppression in relation to white or monochromatic nighttime illumination can be scaled to melanopic weighed illumination for normally constricted pupils, which makes them easier to interpret and compare. This is helpful for a practical applications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian G. Vegetabile ◽  
Beth Ann Griffin ◽  
Donna L. Coffman ◽  
Matthew Cefalu ◽  
Michael W. Robbins ◽  
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