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Predicting Mixture Effects over Time with Toxicokinetic-Toxicodynamic Models (GUTS): Assumptions, Experimental Testing, and Predictive Power

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 2430-2439

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05282

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  1. Natural Environment Research Council [NE/S00135/1, NE/S00224/2]
  2. NERC [NE/S000224/2, NE/S000135/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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The GUTS model provides a framework for deriving TKTD models that consider the effects of toxicant exposure on survival over time. Experimental studies and previously published data demonstrate the predictive power of the extended GUTS-RED framework for mixture assessment, offering novel diagnostic tools for understanding chemical mode of action in mixtures. Deviations from model predictions can identify interactions between mixture components, such as synergism or antagonism, which are not accounted for by the models, highlighting the importance of TKTD models in mixture hazard assessments.
Current methods to assess the impact of chemical mixtures on organisms ignore the temporal dimension. The General Unified Threshold model for Survival (GUTS) provides a framework for deriving toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) models, which account for effects of toxicant exposure on survival in time. Starting from the classic assumptions of independent action and concentration addition, we derive equations for the GUTS reduced (GUTS-RED) model corresponding to these mixture toxicity concepts and go on to demonstrate their application. Using experimental binary mixture studies with Enchytraeus crypticus and previously published data for Daphnia magna and Apis mellifera, we assessed the predictive power of the extended GUTS-RED framework for mixture assessment. The extended models accurately predicted the mixture effect. The GUTS parameters on single exposure data, mixture model calibration, and predictive power analyses on mixture exposure data offer novel diagnostic tools to inform on the chemical mode of action, specifically whether a similar or dissimilar form of damage is caused by mixture components. Finally, observed deviations from model predictions can identify interactions, e.g., synergism or antagonism, between chemicals in the mixture, which are not accounted for by the models. TKTD models, such as GUTS-RED, thus offer a framework to implement new mechanistic knowledge in mixture hazard assessments.

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