Propagation of Pericentral Necrosis During Acetaminophen-Induced Liver Injury : Evidence for Early Interhepatocyte Communication and Information Exchange

© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Toxicology..

Acetaminophen (APAP)-induced liver injury is clinically significant, and APAP overdose in mice often serves as a model for drug-induced liver injury in humans. By specifying that APAP metabolism, reactive metabolite formation, glutathione depletion, and mitigation of mitochondrial damage within individual hepatocytes are functions of intralobular location, an earlier virtual model mechanism provided the first concrete multiattribute explanation for how and why early necrosis occurs close to the central vein (CV). However, two characteristic features could not be simulated consistently: necrosis occurring first adjacent to the CV, and subsequent necrosis occurring primarily adjacent to hepatocytes that have already initiated necrosis. We sought parsimonious model mechanism enhancements that would manage spatiotemporal heterogeneity sufficiently to enable meeting two new target attributes and conducted virtual experiments to explore different ideas for model mechanism improvement at intrahepatocyte and multihepatocyte levels. For the latter, evidence supports intercellular communication via exosomes, gap junctions, and connexin hemichannels playing essential roles in the toxic effects of chemicals, including facilitating or counteracting cell death processes. Logic requiring hepatocytes to obtain current information about whether downstream and lateral neighbors have triggered necrosis enabled virtual hepatocytes to achieve both new target attributes. A virtual hepatocyte that is glutathione-depleted uses that information to determine if it will initiate necrosis. When a less-stressed hepatocyte is flanked by at least two neighbors that have triggered necrosis, it too will initiate necrosis. We hypothesize that the resulting intercellular communication-enabled model mechanism is analogous to the actual explanation for APAP-induced hepatotoxicity at comparable levels of granularity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:169

Enthalten in:

Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 169(2019), 1 vom: 01. Mai, Seite 151-166

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kennedy, Ryan C [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Andrew K [VerfasserIn]
Ropella, Glen E P [VerfasserIn]
McGill, Mitchell R [VerfasserIn]
Jaeschke, Hartmut [VerfasserIn]
Hunt, C Anthony [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

362O9ITL9D
Acetaminophen
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
Drug-induced liver injury
GAN16C9B8O
Glutathione
Hepatic zonation
Journal Article
Model mechanism
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Simulation
Systems modeling
Virtual experiment

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 20.04.2020

Date Revised 11.10.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/toxsci/kfz029

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM293257884