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ReviewAdvances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.)2019

Acetaminophen hepatotoxicity: A mitochondrial perspective.

Anup Ramachandran, Hartmut Jaeschke

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Review in Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 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

44 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. HarnessingFood science & nutrition · 2026
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  2. A systems pharmacology model for paracetamol overdose and treatment.Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics · 2026
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  5. TLR9-mediated innate immune signaling contributes to acetaminophen-induced injury in the developing lung.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026
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  11. A Single Early-Life Acetaminophen Exposure Causes Persistent Abnormalities in the Murine Lung.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anup RamachandranDepartment of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States. Electronic address: aramachandran@kumc.edu.
Hartmut JaeschkeDepartment of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States.

Funding

Nuclear Receptors in Liver Health and DiseaseP20GM103549 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI JAESCHKE, HARTMUT W. · 2012 to 2015
$8.1M
Pilot Grants ProgramP30GM118247 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI JAESCHKE, HARTMUT W. · 2016 to 2020
$5.5M
Autophagy and Drug-Induced Liver InjuryR01DK102142 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI DING, WEN-XING, JAESCHKE, HARTMUT W. · 2014 to 2022
$2.7M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK102142NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103549NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM118247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acetaminophen (APAP) is a highly effective analgesic, which is safe at therapeutic doses. However, an overdose can cause hepatotoxicity and even liver failure. APAP toxicity is currently the most common cause of acute liver failure in the United States. Decades of research on mechanisms of liver injury have established the role of mitochondria as central players in APAP-induced hepatocyte necrosis and this chapter examines the various facets of the organelle's involvement in the process of injury as well as in resolution of damage. The injury process is initiated by formation of a reactive metabolite, which binds to sulfhydryl groups of cellular proteins including mitochondrial proteins. This inhibits the electron transport chain and leads to formation of reactive oxygen species, which induce the activation of redox-sensitive members of the MAP kinase family ultimately causing activation of c-Jun N terminal kinase, JNK. Translocation of JNK to the mitochondria then amplifies mitochondrial dysfunction, ultimately resulting in mitochondrial permeability transition and release of mitochondrial intermembrane proteins, which trigger nuclear DNA fragmentation. Together, these events result in hepatocyte necrosis, while adaptive mechanisms such as mitophagy remove damaged mitochondria and minimize the extent of the injury. This oscillation between recovery and necrosis is predominant in cells at the edge of the necrotic area in the liver, where induction of mitochondrial biogenesis is important for liver regeneration. All these aspects of mitochondria in APAP hepatotoxicity, as well as their relevance to humans with APAP overdose and development of therapeutic approaches will be examined in detail in this chapter.

Indexed as

AcetaminophenAnimalsChemical and Drug Induced Liver InjuryDrug OverdoseHepatocytesHumansMitochondria, LiverMitochondrial ProteinsAcetaminophenMitochondrial ProteinsDrug toxicityHepatocyteLiverNecrosisNitric oxideSuperoxide

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PMID31307587
PMCPMC7350903

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