Consequence potency

Analyze the desired behavior. State the target behavior in its desirable, nonproblematic form. List its antecedents and consequences, plus the consequence potencies. 

Edgren carried out a number of studies in which bioassays were used to compare the widely differing potencies of a number of analogues of 17/i-oestradiol that were modified in the 18-position. Commenting on the use of potency ratios, Edgren concluded that they were only valid for specific substances and test systems and useless for product safety testing . These problems could have important consequences for any attempt to establish the potency of specific environmental EDs or environmentally relevant mixtures. 

The identification of a drug requires optimization of the balance among multiple properties, among them potency/efficacy, pharmacokinetics (PK), safety, and intellectual property. As a consequence, these are also the factors that are important to... 

Biological activity is not the only criterion required for drug development, as anyone who has been involved in this area is aware. Potency, toxicity, bioavailability, metabolic stability, and plasma half-life are only a few of the critical issues that must be addressed. Although satisfactory potency and spectrum activity had been achieved with WIN54954, which has been clinically evaluated, this compound lacked metabolic stability and consequently displayed a short half-life. 

A large number of small-scale tests have been designed to measure the toxic potency of the smoke of materials. These tests differ in many respects the consequence of this is that the relative toxic potencies of smoke resulting from these various tests are different. The tests are not useful,... 

During the 1970 s and early 1980 s a large number of test methods were developed to measure the toxic potency of the smoke produced from burning materials. The ones most widely used are in refs. 29-32. These tests differ in several respects the conditions under which the material is burnt, the characteristics of the air flow (i.e. static or dynamic), the type of method used to evaluate smoke toxicity (i.e. analytical or bioassay), the animal model used for bioassay tests, and the end point determined. As a consequence of all these differences the tests result in a tremendous variation of ranking for the smoke of various materials. A case in point was made in a study of the toxic potency of 14 materials by two methods [33]. It showed (Table I) that the material ranked most toxic by one of the protocols used was ranked least toxic by the other protocol Although neither of these protocols is in common use in the late 1980 s, it illustrates some of the shortcomings associated with small scale toxic potency of smoke tests. 

It is surprising that the most potent of all the hallucingens should possess such a rigid structural requirement. Conversely, it may be this rigid requirement that accounts for its unique potency. Relatively little has been reported on the structure-activity relationships of LSD derivatives. This is probably a direct consequence of the difficult task of preparing such compounds. 

Mixture toxicities. As is obvious from Chapters 2 and 6, APEO and their degradation products occur in the environment as complex mixtures. In risk characterisation studies of AP and APEO, the toxicity of individual constituents of such mixtures, whether assayed in acute and chronic toxicity, or in estrogenicity tests (Chapter 7), is being considered to occur, for each separate endpoint, through the same separate mode of action, and consequently to be additive. Thus, relative potencies can be established for each individual... 

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