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ArticleToxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology2025

Limitations of acetaminophen as a reference hepatotoxin for the evaluation of in vitro liver models.

Lucia A Livoti, Rowena Sison-Young, Dennis Reddyhoff, Ciarán P Fisher, Iain Gardner, Rafael Diaz-Nieto, Christopher E Goldring, Ian M Copple

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Article in Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Acetaminophen should be a critical reference hepatotoxin for evaluating human-relevant in vitro models.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025
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8 authors.

Lucia A LivotiDepartment of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GE, United Kingdom.
Rowena Sison-YoungDepartment of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GE, United Kingdom.
Dennis ReddyhoffCertara Predictive Technologies, Sheffield, S1 2BJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4971-2346
Ciarán P FisherCertara Predictive Technologies, Sheffield, S1 2BJ, United Kingdom.
Iain GardnerCertara Predictive Technologies, Sheffield, S1 2BJ, United Kingdom.
Rafael Diaz-NietoLiverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, L7 8YE, United Kingdom.
Christopher E GoldringDepartment of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GE, United Kingdom.
Ian M CoppleDepartment of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4101-1913

Funding

Centre for Drug Safety Science MR/L006758/1European Union's Horizon 2020European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and EFPIAInnovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking 116030Medical Research CouncilMedical Research Council (MRC)TransQST Consortium
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acetaminophen is commonly used as a reference hepatotoxin to demonstrate that in vitro human liver platforms can emulate features of clinical drug-induced liver injury. However, the induction of substantial cell death in these models typically requires acetaminophen concentrations (∼10 mM) far higher than blood concentrations of the drug associated with clinical hepatotoxicity (∼1 mM). Using the cytochrome P450 inhibitor 1-aminobenzotriazole, we show that acetaminophen toxicity in cultured human, mouse, and rat hepatocytes is not dependent on N-acetyl-p-benzoquinonimine formation, unlike the in vivo setting. This finding highlights the limitation of using acetaminophen as a reference hepatotoxin for the evaluation of in vitro liver models. Hence, we make recommendations on the selection of reference hepatotoxins for this purpose.

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AcetaminophenChemical and Drug Induced Liver InjuryHepatocytesAnimalsBenzoquinonesCells, CulturedCytochrome P-450 Enzyme InhibitorsDose-Response Relationship, DrugHumansIminesLiverMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRatsTriazoles1-aminobenzotriazoleAcetaminophenBenzoquinonesCytochrome P-450 Enzyme InhibitorsIminesN-acetyl-4-benzoquinoneimineTriazolesacetaminophenbioactivationDILIhepatocytes

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PMID39509272
PMCPMC11664098

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