A mathematical model and computer program for adriamycin distribution and elimination.

A mathematical physiological flow model is described for the distribution and elimination of adriamycin in the rat. The model includes the volume or mass of, and blood flow to the following tissues: heart, plasma, muscle, skin, kidney, bone marrow, gut, liver and bile. A compartment is also included for tight or almost irreversible binding which occurs with this drug. The program was written in FORTRAN to compute the concentration of drug in each tissue as a function of time after bolus injection or short term infusion. The computed data is printed on a line printer and recorded on disk for use in a SAS program GPLOT to obtain precision plots.