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Response to and recovery from treatment in human liver-mimetic clinostat spheroids: a model for assessing repeated-dose drug toxicity.

ABSTRACT: Medicines are usually prescribed for repeated use over shorter or longer times. Unfortunately, repeated-dose animal toxicity studies do not correlate well with observations in man. As emphasized by the '3Rs' and the desire to phase-out animal research, in vitro models are needed. One potential approach uses clinostat-cultured 3D HepG2-C3A liver-mimetic spheroids. They take 18 days to recover in vivo physiological functionality and reach a metabolic equilibrium, which is thereafter stable for a year. Acute and chronic repeated-dose studies of six drugs (amiodarone, diclofenac, metformin, phenformin, paracetamol and valproic acid) suggest that spheroids are more predictive of human in vivo toxicity than either 2D-cultured HepG2 cells or primary human hepatocytes. Repeated non-lethal treatment results in a clear response and return to equilibrium. Mitochondrial toxic compounds can be identified using a galactose-based medium. Some drugs induced a protective (or stress) response that intensifies after the second treatment. This 3D spheroid model is inexpensive, highly reproducible and well-suited for the determination of repeated-dose toxicity of compounds (naturally or chemically synthesized).

SUBMITTER: Fey SJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7467243 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Response to and recovery from treatment in human liver-mimetic clinostat spheroids: a model for assessing repeated-dose drug toxicity.

Fey Stephen J SJ Korzeniowska Barbara B Wrzesinski Krzysztof K

Toxicology research 20200612 4

Medicines are usually prescribed for repeated use over shorter or longer times. Unfortunately, repeated-dose animal toxicity studies do not correlate well with observations in man. As emphasized by the '3Rs' and the desire to phase-out animal research, <i>in vitro</i> models are needed. One potential approach uses clinostat-cultured 3D HepG2-C3A liver-mimetic spheroids. They take 18 days to recover <i>in vivo</i> physiological functionality and reach a metabolic equilibrium, which is thereafter ...[more]

PMID: 32905230

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Response to and recovery from treatment in human liver-mimetic clinostat spheroids: a model for assessing repeated-dose drug toxicity.

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Response to and recovery from treatment in human liver-mimetic clinostat spheroids: a model for assessing repeated-dose drug toxicity.

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