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HERO ID
3841222
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
Toxicokinetic Triage for Environmental Chemicals
Author(s)
Wambaugh, JF; Wetmore, BA; Pearce, R; Strope, C; Goldsmith, R; Sluka, JP; Sedykh, A; Tropsha, A; Bosgra, S; Shah, I; Judson, R; Thomas, RS; Setzer, RW
Year
2015
Is Peer Reviewed?
Yes
Journal
Toxicological Sciences
ISSN:
1096-6080
EISSN:
1096-0929
Volume
147
Issue
1
Page Numbers
55-67
Language
English
PMID
26085347
DOI
10.1093/toxsci/kfv118
Web of Science Id
WOS:000361322000006
URL
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/147/1/55.abstract
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Abstract
Toxicokinetic (TK) models link administered doses to plasma, blood, and tissue concentrations. High-throughput TK (HTTK) performs in vitro to in vivo extrapolation to predict TK from rapid in vitro measurements and chemical structure-based properties. A significant toxicological application of HTTK has been “reverse dosimetry,” in which bioactive concentrations from in vitro screening studies are converted into in vivo doses (mg/kg BW/day). These doses are predicted to produce steady-state plasma concentrations that are equivalent to in vitro bioactive concentrations. In this study, we evaluate the impact of the approximations and assumptions necessary for reverse dosimetry and develop methods to determine whether HTTK tools are appropriate or may lead to false conclusions for a particular chemical. Based on literature in vivo data for 87 chemicals, we identified specific properties (eg, in vitro HTTK data, physico-chemical descriptors, and predicted transporter affinities) that correlate with poor HTTK predictive ability. For 271 chemicals we developed a generic HT physiologically based TK (HTPBTK) model that predicts non-steady-state chemical concentration time-courses for a variety of exposure scenarios. We used this HTPBTK model to find that assumptions previously used for reverse dosimetry are usually appropriate, except most notably for highly bioaccumulative compounds. For the thousands of man-made chemicals in the environment that currently have no TK data, we propose a 4-element framework for chemical TK triage that can group chemicals into 7 different categories associated with varying levels of confidence in HTTK predictions. For 349 chemicals with literature HTTK data, we differentiated those chemicals for which HTTK approaches are likely to be sufficient, from those that may require additional data.
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