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Hepatotoxic assessment in a microphysiological system: Simulation of the drug absorption and toxic process after an overdosed acetaminophen on intestinal-liver-on-chip

  • Food Chem Toxicol. 2024 Sep 18:193:115016. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2024.115016.
Yue Yu 1 Baiyang Sun 1 Xiao Ye 2 Yupeng Wang 1 Manman Zhao 2 Jie Song 2 Xingchao Geng 2 Uwe Marx 3 Bo Li 4 Xiaobing Zhou 5
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Affiliations

  • 1 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, China; Institute for Safety Evaluation, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing Key Laboratory for Safety Evaluation of Drugs, Beijing, 100176, China.
  • 2 Institute for Safety Evaluation, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing Key Laboratory for Safety Evaluation of Drugs, Beijing, 100176, China.
  • 3 TissUse GmbH, Oudenarder Str. 16, D-13347, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: uwe.marx@tissuse.com.
  • 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, China; Institute for Safety Evaluation, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing Key Laboratory for Safety Evaluation of Drugs, Beijing, 100176, China. Electronic address: libo@nifdc.org.cn.
  • 5 Institute for Safety Evaluation, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing Key Laboratory for Safety Evaluation of Drugs, Beijing, 100176, China. Electronic address: zhxb@nifdc.org.cn.
Abstract

To compensate the limitation of animal models, new models were proposed for drug safety evaluation to refine and reduce existing models. To mimic drug absorption and metabolism and predict toxicokinetic and toxic effects in an in vitro intestinal-liver microphysiological system (MPS), we constructed an intestinal-liver-on-chip and detected the acute liver injury process after an overdose of acetaminophen (APAP). Caco-2 and HT29-MTX-E12 cell lines were utilized to establish intestinal equivalents, along with HepG2, HUVEC-T1, and THP-1 induced by PMA and human hepatic stellate cell to establish liver equivalents. The APAP concentration was determined using high-performance liquid chromatography, and the toxicokinetic parameters were fitted using the non-compartmental analysis method by Phoenix. Changes in liver injury biomarkers aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase, and liver function marker albumin indicated that the short-term culture of the two organs-on-chip model was stable for 4 days. Reactive Oxygen Species signaling was enhanced after APAP administration, along with decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, activated Caspase-3, and enhanced p53 signaling, indicating a toxic response induced by APAP overdose. In the gut-liver MPS model, we fitted the toxicokinetic parameters and simulated the hepatotoxicity procedure following an APAP overdose, which will facilitate the organ-on-chips application in drug toxicity assays.

Keywords

Acetaminophen; Hepatotoxic; Intestinal-liver model; Liver toxic; Microphysiological system; Organ-on-chip; Toxicokinetic.

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