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ReviewPharmacology & therapeutics2017

Adverse outcome pathways: Application to enhance mechanistic understanding of neurotoxicity.

Anna Bal-Price, M E Bette Meek

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Review in Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Enabling novel paradigms: a biological questions-based approach to human chemical hazard and drug safety assessment.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2024
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  9. Vesicular Glutamate Release from Feeder-FreehiPSC-Derived Neurons.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  10. Motor dysfunction iniScience · 2022
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  12. Towards a qAOP framework for predictive toxicology - Linking data to decisions.Computational toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anna Bal-PriceEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre, Directorate F - Health, Consumers and Reference Materials, Ispra, Italy. Electronic address: anna.price@ec.europa.eu.
M E Bette MeekMcLaughlin Centre for Risk Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent developments have prompted the transition of empirically based testing of late stage toxicity in animals for a range of different endpoints including neurotoxicity to more efficient and predictive mechanistically based approaches with greater emphasis on measurable key events early in the progression of disease. The adverse outcome pathway (AOP) has been proposed as a simplified organizational construct to contribute to this transition by linking molecular initiating events and earlier (more predictive) key events at lower levels of biological organization to disease outcomes. As such, AOPs are anticipated to facilitate the compilation of information to increase mechanistic understanding of pathophysiological pathways that are responsible for human disease. In this review, the sequence of key events resulting in adverse outcome (AO) defined as parkinsonian motor impairment and learning and memory deficit in children, triggered by exposure to environmental chemicals has been briefly described using the AOP framework. These AOPs follow convention adopted in an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) AOP development program, publically available, to permit tailored application of AOPs for a range of different purposes. Due to the complexity of disease pathways, including neurodegenerative disorders, a specific symptom of the disease (e.g. parkinsonian motor deficit) is considered as the AO in a developed AOP. Though the description is necessarily limited by the extent of current knowledge, additional characterization of involved pathways through description of related AOPs interlinked into networks for the same disease has potential to contribute to more holistic and mechanistic understanding of the pathophysiological pathways involved, possibly leading to the mechanism-based reclassification of diseases, thus facilitating more personalized treatment.

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Adverse Outcome PathwaysAnimalsEnvironmental PollutantsHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeurotoxicity SyndromesReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateToxicity TestsEnvironmental PollutantsReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateKey eventKey event relationshipMechanistic understandingNeurotoxicityQuantitationWeight of evidence

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PMID28529068
PMCPMC5869951

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