Gough Albert, Vernetti Lawrence, Bergenthal Luke, Shun Tong Ying, Taylor D Lansing
University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Appl In Vitro Toxicol. 2016 Jun 1;2(2):103-117. doi: 10.1089/aivt.2016.0011.
Microfluidic human organ models, microphysiology systems (MPS), are currently being developed as predictive models of drug safety and efficacy in humans. To design and validate MPS as predictive of human safety liabilities requires safety data for a reference set of compounds, combined with data from the human organ models. To address this need, we have developed an internet database, the MPS database (MPS-Db), as a powerful platform for experimental design, data management, and analysis, and to combine experimental data with reference data, to enable computational modeling. The present study demonstrates the capability of the MPS-Db in early safety testing using a human liver MPS to relate the effects of tolcapone and entacapone in the model to human effects. These two compounds were chosen to be evaluated as a representative pair of marketed drugs because they are structurally similar, have the same target, and were found safe or had an acceptable risk in preclinical and clinical trials, yet tolcapone induced unacceptable levels of hepatotoxicity while entacapone was found to be safe. Results demonstrate the utility of the MPS-Db as an essential resource for relating organ model data to the multiple biochemical, preclinical, and clinical data sources on drug effects.
微流控人体器官模型,即微生理系统(MPS),目前正被开发用作预测药物在人体中的安全性和有效性的模型。要设计并验证MPS能够预测人体安全性问题,需要一组参考化合物的安全数据,并结合来自人体器官模型的数据。为满足这一需求,我们开发了一个互联网数据库,即MPS数据库(MPS-Db),作为实验设计、数据管理和分析的强大平台,并将实验数据与参考数据相结合,以实现计算建模。本研究展示了MPS-Db在早期安全性测试中的能力,该测试使用人体肝脏MPS将托卡朋和恩他卡朋在模型中的作用与人体效应联系起来。选择这两种化合物作为一对已上市药物的代表进行评估,是因为它们结构相似、具有相同靶点,并且在临床前和临床试验中被认为是安全的或具有可接受的风险,但托卡朋会引起不可接受水平的肝毒性,而恩他卡朋被认为是安全的。结果表明,MPS-Db作为将器官模型数据与关于药物效应的多种生化、临床前和临床数据源相关联的重要资源具有实用性。