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- Title
Concordance between Thioacetamide-Induced Liver Injury in Rat and Human In Vitro Gene Expression Data.
- Authors
Schyman, Patric; Printz, Richard L.; Estes, Shanea K.; O'Brien, Tracy P.; Shiota, Masakazu; Wallqvist, Anders
- Abstract
The immense resources required and the ethical concerns for animal-based toxicological studies have driven the development of in vitro and in silico approaches. Recently, we validated our approach in which the expression of a set of genes is uniquely associated with an organ-injury phenotype (injury module), by using thioacetamide, a known liver toxicant. Here, we sought to explore whether RNA-seq data obtained from human cells (in vitro) treated with thioacetamide-S-oxide (a toxic intermediate metabolite) would correlate across species with the injury responses found in rat cells (in vitro) after exposure to this metabolite as well as in rats exposed to thioacetamide (in vivo). We treated two human cell types with thioacetamide-S-oxide (primary hepatocytes with 0 (vehicle), 0.125 (low dose), or 0.25 (high dose) mM, and renal tubular epithelial cells with 0 (vehicle), 0.25 (low dose), or 1.00 (high dose) mM) and collected RNA-seq data 9 or 24 h after treatment. We found that the liver-injury modules significantly altered in human hepatocytes 24 h after high-dose treatment involved cellular infiltration and bile duct proliferation, which are linked to fibrosis. For high-dose treatments, our modular approach predicted the rat in vivo and in vitro results from human in vitro RNA-seq data with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.60 and 0.63, respectively, which was not observed for individual genes or KEGG pathways.
- Subjects
GENE expression; HUMAN genes; LIVER injuries; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); EPITHELIAL cells; LIVER cells
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, Vol 21, Issue 11, p4017
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms21114017