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How to convert human dose to animal dose?

Dapid Candra  Follow

Venu,
Yes you are right, you will have sum up of all the ingredients and convert it back to human dose (assuming that all the ingredients contains the active principles for the said indication)

Santosh,
These calculations are taken from the FDA guideline on the estimation of the safe starting dose in human. In the guideline, the values are given to calculate the animal dose to human dose and I have used the same values to back calculate the human dose to animal dose. You can also use Ghosh book on the Experimental Pharmacology, (I believe) to derive the interspecies dose calculation and both the method will give you the same results.
Srinivasan


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David MacManus  Follow

If a person weighing 70 kg is given a dose of 1.5 g / kg, what is the dose for a rat weighing 200 g?

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Cammie Wait  Follow

Hello Uuganbayar Uuganaa Baatartsogt,

To answer you question,

[Conversion from 60 Kg person to 150 g rat]
Conversion using Km factor
Animal dose (mg/kg) = 1500 mg/kg × (37/6)
=1500 x 6.17
=9250 mg/kg = 9.25 g/kg in rats.

Where, 6=Km factor for rat ; 37= Km factor for human.
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[Conversion from 70 kg person to 200 g rat]
Conversion using Body weight
Animal dose (mg/kg) = 1500 mg/kg × (70/0.200)^0.33
=1500 x [350]^0.33
=1500x 6.91
=10366.5 mg/kg = 10.366 g/kg in rats.

Where, 70 (70kg) =Body weight of human ; 0.2 (200 g)= Body weight of rat.

Also find the attached references

Hope this helps you.

Regards
Dr G L Vishwanath



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Don Forcash  Follow

For which species do you want to convert the human dose? The way I convert the human dose to animal dose is based on the body surface area.
Human dose (mg/kg) to mouse dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 12.3
Human dose (mg/kg) to rat dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 7.4
Human dose (mg/kg) to guinea pig dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 4.6
Human dose (mg/kg) to rabbit dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 3.1
Human dose (mg/kg) to dog dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 1.8


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Bob Spencer  Follow

I have a question.


One Drug is A and other one is B. Now, LD50 of A drug is 1 mg/ kg bw...LD50 of B drug is 4mg/kg bw.....which drug is more Toxic than another one?

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Ara Cicheski  Follow

@Tamanna Roy The smaller the LD50, the more toxic the drug is. So A is more toxic (the dose required to induce 50% of the toxicity is less than B)

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Chris James  Follow

Human dose (mg/kg) to mouse dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 12.3
Human dose (mg/kg) to rat dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 7.4
Human dose (mg/kg) to guinea pig dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 4.6
Human dose (mg/kg) to rabbit dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 3.1
Human dose (mg/kg) to dog dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 1.8

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Chun Xu  Follow

Would you please tell me how to convert human dose to chick embryo dose per egg for in ovo injection?

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Dawn Le Strat  Follow

Useful article

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Christian Altorfer  Follow

Human dose (mg/kg) to mouse dose (mg/kg) - multiply by 12.3

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Barry Ford  Follow

Hi Venu,

Please check, the following examples may help you to understand the conversion from Animals to HED and Vice versa.

Example. 1.
Suppose effective dose in mice is 1000 mg/kg, and if we have to convert to human equivalent dose (HED).
HED (mg/kg) = Animal dose (mg/kg)X (Km factor of animal /Km factor of humans)
HED (mg/kg) = 1000 mg/kg × (3/37) = 81.1 mg/kg (4.866 g/day) in humans.
Where, km factor for mice=3; km factor for human =37.

Note: HED (mg/kg) has to be multiplied by 60 kg --> Human dose mg/day.

The conversion equation, Km values, BSA etc can be obtained from FDA document, please find the link below.
https://www.fda.gov/media/72309/download


Example 2. Suppose clinical effective dose is 200 mg/kg (Human dose/60kg---> Human dose mg/kg), and we need to convert it to dose for rats.

Animal dose (mg/kg) = 200 mg/kg × (37/6) = 1233 mg/kg in rats.

Where, km factor for mice=6; km factor for human =37.

Please refer these documents.
https://www.jkom.org/upload/31-3%2001%20[01-07].pdf
Article Dose translation from animal to human studies revisited

https://www.fda.gov/media/72309/download

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