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A newin vitroapproach for the simultaneous determination of phase I and phase II enzymatic activities of human hepatocyte preparations
2007
Primary hepatocytes are still the best qualified in vitro system to anticipate drug metabolism in man. Recent advances in hepatocytes cryopreservation have notably increased their use not only for drug metabolism studies, but also for other applications such as cell transplantation. Evaluation of the drug-metabolizing competence of each hepatocytes preparation is needed. To date, the metabolic characterization of hepatocytes preparations relies on the assessment of phase I activities and the role of phase II enzymes receives little attention. A novel approach for the rapid assessment of the metabolic functionality of hepatocytes has been developed. A five-probe cocktail was used to simultan…
Rational Species Extrapolation of Toxic Effects
1994
One of the main problems in toxicology and pharmacology is the extrapolation from one species to another, particularly from laboratory animals to man or in ecotoxicology from laboratory animals to free living species. Many toxicological data were raised only in one or a few species of laboratory animals. In the last decades more and more experimental data were obtained from in vitro-systems. Therefore extrapolations from in vitro to in vivo and from species to species are required. Species differences in uptake, distribution, metabolism, site of action, elimination and accumulation have to be taken into account. Most foreign compounds are metabolically transformed by diverse xenobiotica met…