Ohri Shivam, Parekh Paarth, Nichols Lauren, Rajan Shiny Amala Priya, Cirit Murat
Javelin Biotech, Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts.
Javelin Biotech, Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts.
Drug Metab Dispos. 2025 Jan;53(1):100004. doi: 10.1124/dmd.124.001497. Epub 2024 Nov 22.
Polypharmacy-related drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a significant and growing healthcare concern. An increasing number of therapeutic drugs on the market underscores the necessity to accurately assess new drug combinations during preclinical evaluation for DDIs. In vitro primary human hepatocytes (PHH) models are only applicable for short-term induction studies because of their rapid loss of metabolic function. Though coculturing nonhuman stromal cells with PHH has been shown to stabilize metabolic activity long-term, there are concerns about human specificity for accurate clinical assessment. In this study, we demonstrated a PHH-only liver microphysiological system in the Liver Tissue Chip is capable of maintaining long-term functional and metabolic activity of PHH from 3 individual donors and thus a suitable platform for long-term DDI induction studies. The responses to rifampicin induction of 3 PHH donors were assessed using cytochrome P450 activity and mRNA changes. Additionally, victim pharmacokinetic studies were conducted with midazolam (high clearance) and alprazolam (low clearance) following perpetrator drug treatment, rifampicin-mediated induction, which resulted in a 2-fold and a 2.6-fold increase in midazolam and alprazolam intrinsic clearance values, respectively, compared with the untreated liver microphysiological system. We also investigated the induction effects of different dosing regimens of the perpetrator drug (rifampicin) on cytochrome P450 activity levels, showing minimal variation in the intrinsic clearance of the victim drug (midazolam). This study illustrates the utility of the Liver Tissue Chip for in vitro liver-specific DDI induction studies, providing a translational experimental system to predict clinical clearance values of both perpetrator and victim drugs. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: This study demonstrated the utility of the Liver Tissue Chip with a primary human hepatocyte-only liver microphysiological system for drug-drug interaction induction studies. This unique in vitro system with continuous recirculation maintains long-term functionality and metabolic activity for up to 4 weeks, enabling the study of perpetrator and victim drug pharmacokinetics, quantification of drug-induced cytochrome P450 mRNA and activity levels, investigation of patient variability, and ultimately clinical predictions.
多重用药相关的药物相互作用(DDIs)是一个重大且日益受到关注的医疗问题。市场上治疗药物的数量不断增加,凸显了在临床前评估DDIs时准确评估新药物组合的必要性。体外原代人肝细胞(PHH)模型仅适用于短期诱导研究,因为其代谢功能会迅速丧失。尽管已证明将非人类基质细胞与PHH共培养可长期稳定代谢活性,但对于准确的临床评估存在人类特异性方面的担忧。在本研究中,我们证明了肝组织芯片中仅包含PHH的肝脏微生理系统能够维持来自3个个体供体的PHH的长期功能和代谢活性,因此是进行长期DDI诱导研究的合适平台。使用细胞色素P450活性和mRNA变化评估了3个PHH供体对利福平诱导的反应。此外,在给予肇事者药物利福平介导的诱导后,对咪达唑仑(高清除率)和阿普唑仑(低清除率)进行了受害者药代动力学研究,与未处理的肝脏微生理系统相比,咪达唑仑和阿普唑仑的内在清除率值分别增加了2倍和2.6倍。我们还研究了肇事者药物(利福平)不同给药方案对细胞色素P450活性水平的诱导作用,结果显示受害者药物(咪达唑仑)的内在清除率变化最小。本研究说明了肝组织芯片在体外肝脏特异性DDI诱导研究中的实用性,提供了一个转化实验系统来预测肇事者和受害者药物的临床清除率值。意义声明:本研究证明了具有仅包含原代人肝细胞的肝脏微生理系统的肝组织芯片在药物相互作用诱导研究中的实用性。这个具有连续再循环的独特体外系统可维持长达4周的长期功能和代谢活性,能够研究肇事者和受害者药物的药代动力学、定量药物诱导的细胞色素P450 mRNA和活性水平、调查患者变异性,并最终进行临床预测。