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ArticleToxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology2019

Assessing Toxicokinetic Uncertainty and Variability in Risk Prioritization.

John F Wambaugh, Barbara A Wetmore, Caroline L Ring, Chantel I Nicolas, Robert G Pearce, Gregory S Honda, Roger Dinallo, Derek Angus, Jon Gilbert, Teresa Sierra and 6 more

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Article in Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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16 authors.

John F WambaughNational Center for Computational Toxicology.
Barbara A WetmoreNational Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711.
Caroline L RingNational Center for Computational Toxicology.
Chantel I NicolasNational Center for Computational Toxicology.
Robert G PearceNational Center for Computational Toxicology.
Gregory S HondaNational Center for Computational Toxicology.
Roger DinalloCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
Derek AngusCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
Jon GilbertCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
Teresa SierraCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
Akshay BadrinarayananCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
Bradley SnodgrassCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
Adam BrockmanCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
Chris StrockCyprotex US, LLC, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.
R Woodrow SetzerNational Center for Computational Toxicology.
Russell S ThomasNational Center for Computational Toxicology.

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Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High(er) throughput toxicokinetics (HTTK) encompasses in vitro measures of key determinants of chemical toxicokinetics and reverse dosimetry approaches for in vitro-in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE). With HTTK, the bioactivity identified by any in vitro assay can be converted to human equivalent doses and compared with chemical intake estimates. Biological variability in HTTK has been previously considered, but the relative impact of measurement uncertainty has not. Bayesian methods were developed to provide chemical-specific uncertainty estimates for 2 in vitro toxicokinetic parameters: unbound fraction in plasma (fup) and intrinsic hepatic clearance (Clint). New experimental measurements of fup and Clint are reported for 418 and 467 chemicals, respectively. These data raise the HTTK chemical coverage of the ToxCast Phase I and II libraries to 57%. Although the standard protocol for Clint was followed, a revised protocol for fup measured unbound chemical at 10%, 30%, and 100% of physiologic plasma protein concentrations, allowing estimation of protein binding affinity. This protocol reduced the occurrence of chemicals with fup too low to measure from 44% to 9.1%. Uncertainty in fup was also reduced, with the median coefficient of variation dropping from 0.4 to 0.1. Monte Carlo simulation was used to propagate both measurement uncertainty and biological variability into IVIVE. The uncertainty propagation techniques used here also allow incorporation of other sources of uncertainty such as in silico predictors of HTTK parameters. These methods have the potential to inform risk-based prioritization based on the relationship between in vitro bioactivities and exposures.

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Models, BiologicalToxicokineticsBayes TheoremComputer SimulationHazardous SubstancesHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansLiverMetabolic Clearance RateMonte Carlo MethodProtein BindingRisk AssessmentUncertaintyHazardous SubstancesBayesian modelinghigh throughputIVIVEtoxicokineticsuncertaintyvariability

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PMID31532498
PMCPMC8136471

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