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ArticleToxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA2021

Extrapolating from acute to chronic toxicity in vitro.

Peter Macko, Taina Palosaari, Maurice Whelan

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Article in Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Investigating the dependency of in vitro benchmark concentrations on exposure time in transcriptomics experiments.Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA · 2024
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  15. Postbiotic Activities ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  17. New approach methodologies: A quantitative in vitro to in vivo extrapolation case study with PFASs.Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter MackoEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy. Electronic address: peter.macko@ec.europa.eu.
Taina PalosaariEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Maurice WhelanEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemical safety assessment requires information on both chronic and acute effects of toxicants. Traditionally, such information has been provided by a set of animal studies conducted over different durations, ranging from a single dose with observation of effects over a few days, to repeat daily dosing and observations made over many months. With the advent of modern mechanistic approaches to toxicology, the role of in vitro studies within alternative approaches has never been more prominent. Typical in vitro experiments are conducted over short durations with measurements of response at a single time point, with a focus on providing effect and concentration-response information as input to hazard and risk assessment. This limits the usefulness of such data since potential chronic effects that cumulate over time are not usually considered. To address this, an experimental design is presented to characterise the toxicodynamics of a response not only in terms of concentration, but also as a function of time. Generation of concentration-time-effect responses allows both the extrapolation of points of departure from an acute to chronic exposure, and the determination of a chronicity index that provides a quantitative measure of a chemical's potential to cause cumulative effects over time. In addition, the approach provides a means to characterise the dynamics of key event relationships for the development of quantitative adverse outcome pathways.

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Animal Testing AlternativesBiological AssayCell LineCell SurvivalDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsHazardous SubstancesHumansRisk AssessmentToxicity TestsHazardous SubstancesAcute to chronic extrapolationChronicity indexHigh content imagingIn vitro toxicityLive cell

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PMID34186185
PMCPMC8434427

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