AOP report : Development of an adverse outcome pathway for deposition of energy leading to cataracts

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Cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness, with an estimated 95 million people affected worldwide. A hallmark of cataract development is lens opacification, typically associated not only with aging but also radiation exposure as encountered by interventional radiologists and astronauts during the long-term space mission. To better understand radiation-induced cataracts, the adverse outcome pathway (AOP) framework was used to structure and evaluate knowledge across biological levels of organization (e.g., macromolecular, cell, tissue, organ, organism and population). AOPs identify a sequence of key events (KEs) causally connected by key event relationships (KERs) beginning with a molecular initiating event to an adverse outcome (AO) of relevance to regulatory decision-making. To construct the cataract AO and retrieve evidence to support it, a scoping review methodology was used to filter, screen, and review studies based on the modified Bradford Hill criteria. Eight KEs were identified that were moderately supported by empirical evidence (e.g., dose-, time-, incidence-concordance) across the adjacent (directly linked) relationships using well-established endpoints. Over half of the evidence to justify the KER linkages was derived from the evidence stream of biological plausibility. Early KEs of oxidative stress and protein modifications had strong linkages to downstream KEs and could be the focus of countermeasure development. Several identified knowledge gaps and inconsistencies related to the quantitative understanding of KERs which could be the basis of future research, most notably directed to experiments in the range of low or moderate doses and dose-rates, relevant to radiation workers and other occupational exposures.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - (2024) vom: 21. Apr.

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Englisch

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Carrothers, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Appleby, Meghan [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Vita [VerfasserIn]
Kozbenko, Tatiana [VerfasserIn]
Alomar, Dalya [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Benjamin J [VerfasserIn]
Hamada, Nobuyuki [VerfasserIn]
Hinton, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Ainsbury, Elizabeth A [VerfasserIn]
Hocking, Robyn [VerfasserIn]
Yauk, Carole [VerfasserIn]
Wilkins, Ruth C [VerfasserIn]
Chauhan, Vinita [VerfasserIn]

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AOP
Cataracts
Journal Article
Radiation
Risk assessment
Space exploration

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Date Revised 22.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1002/em.22594

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NLM371336317