Genomics and metabolomics of early-stage thioacetamide-induced liver injury : An interspecies study between guinea pig and rat

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To study the complex processes involved in liver injuries, researchers rely on animal investigations, using chemically or surgically induced liver injuries, to extrapolate findings and infer human health risks. However, this presents obvious challenges in performing a detailed comparison and validation between the highly controlled animal models and development of liver injuries in humans. Furthermore, it is not clear whether there are species-dependent and -independent molecular initiating events or processes that cause liver injury before they eventually lead to end-stage liver disease. Here, we present a side-by-side study of rats and guinea pigs using thioacetamide to examine the similarities between early molecular initiating events during an acute-phase liver injury. We exposed Sprague Dawley rats and Hartley guinea pigs to a single dose of 25 or 100 mg/kg thioacetamide and collected blood plasma for metabolomic analysis and liver tissue for RNA-sequencing. The subsequent toxicogenomic analysis identified consistent liver injury trends in both genomic and metabolomic data within 24 and 33 h after thioacetamide exposure in rats and guinea pigs, respectively. In particular, we found species similarities in the key injury phenotypes of inflammation and fibrogenesis in our gene module analysis for liver injury phenotypes. We identified expression of several common genes (e.g., SPP1, TNSF18, SERPINE1, CLDN4, TIMP1, CD44, and LGALS3), activation of injury-specific KEGG pathways, and alteration of plasma metabolites involved in amino acid and bile acid metabolism as some of the key molecular processes that changed early upon thioacetamide exposure and could play a major role in the initiation of acute liver injury.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:430

Enthalten in:

Toxicology and applied pharmacology - 430(2021) vom: 01. Nov., Seite 115713

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schyman, Patric [VerfasserIn]
Printz, Richard L [VerfasserIn]
Pannala, Venkat R [VerfasserIn]
AbdulHameed, Mohamed Diwan M [VerfasserIn]
Estes, Shanea K [VerfasserIn]
Shiota, Chiyo [VerfasserIn]
Boyd, Kelli Lynn [VerfasserIn]
Shiota, Masakazu [VerfasserIn]
Wallqvist, Anders [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

075T165X8M
Biomarkers
Comparative Study
Gene expression
Interspecies translation
Journal Article
Liver injury
Metabolomics
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Thioacetamide

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Date Completed 30.12.2021

Date Revised 26.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.taap.2021.115713

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330346288