Applications of cytotoxicity assays and pre-lethal mechanistic assays for assessment of human hepatotoxicity potential.
Chem Biol Interact
; 150(1): 115-28, 2004 Nov 01.
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| ID: mdl-15522265
While drug toxicity (especially hepatotoxicity) is the most frequent reason cited for withdrawal of an approved drug, no simple solution exists to adequately predict such adverse events. Simple cytotoxicity assays in HepG2 cells are relatively insensitive to human hepatotoxic drugs in a retrospective analysis of marketed pharmaceuticals. In comparison, a panel of pre-lethal mechanistic cellular assays hold the promise to deliver a more sensitive approach to detect endpoint-specific drug toxicities. The panel of assays covered by this review includes steatosis, cholestasis, phospholipidosis, reactive intermediates, mitochondria membrane function, oxidative stress, and drug interactions. In addition, the use of metabolically competent cells or the introduction of major human hepatocytes in these in vitro studies allow a more complete picture of potential drug side effect. Since inter-individual therapeutic index (TI) may differ from patient to patient, the rational use of one or more of these cellular assay and targeted in vivo exposure data may allow pharmaceutical scientists to select drug candidates with a higher TI potential in the drug discovery phase.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Toxicología
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Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos
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Hígado
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Chem Biol Interact
Año:
2004
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Irlanda