Kakutani, Nobuyuki published the artcileNovel risk assessment of reactive metabolites from discovery to clinical stage, Application In Synthesis of 40180-04-9, the main research area is quetiapine rimonabant ritonavir hepatoprotectant drug discovery liver injury; Body burden; Cyanide; Cysteine; Hepatotoxicity; Reactive metabolites; Trapping assay.
This study was aimed to predict drug-induced liver injury caused by reactive metabolites. Reactive metabolites covalently bind to proteins and could result in severe outcomes in patients. However, the relation between the extent of covalent binding and clin. hepatotoxicity is still unclear. From a perspective of body burden (human in vivo exposure to reactive metabolites), we developed a risk assessment method in which reactive metabolite burden (RM burden), an index that could reflect the body burden associated with reactive metabolite exposure, is calculated using the extent of covalent binding, clin. dose, and human in vivo clearance. The relationship between RM burden and hepatotoxicity in humans was then investigated. The results indicated that this RM burden assessment exhibited good predictability for sensitivity and specificity, and drugs with over 10 mg/day RM burden have high-risk for hepatotoxicity. Furthermore, a quant. trapping assay using radiolabeled trapping agents ([35S]cysteine and [14C]KCN) was also developed, to detect reactive metabolite formation in the early drug discovery stage. RM burden calculated using this assay showed as good predictability as RM burden calculated using conventional time- and cost-consuming covalent binding assays. These results indicated that the combination of RM burden and our trapping assay would be a good risk assessment method for reactive metabolites from the drug discovery stage.
Journal of Toxicological Sciences published new progress about Drug discovery. 40180-04-9 belongs to class benzothiophene, name is 2-(2,3-Dichloro-4-(thiophene-2-carbonyl)phenoxy)acetic acid, and the molecular formula is C13H8Cl2O4S, Application In Synthesis of 40180-04-9.
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