Journal
TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 100, Issue 1, Pages 259-266Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfm218
Keywords
trovafloxacin; inflammation; liver toxicology; adverse drug reactions; cytokines; mechanisms of systems toxicology; idiosyncratic reactions
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK061315] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [T32ES007255] Funding Source: Medline
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Idiosyncratic adverse drug reactions (IADRs) occur in a small subset of patients, are unrelated to the pharmacological action of the drug, and occur without an obvious relationship to dose or duration of drug exposure. The liver is often the target of these reactions. Why they occur is unknown. One possibility is that episodic inflammatory stress interacts with the drug to precipitate a toxic response. We set out to determine if lipopolysaccharide (LPS) renders mice sensitive to trovafloxacin (TVX), a fluoroquinolone antibiotic linked to idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity in humans and if the cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha) is involved in the development of liver injury. Male mice were treated with a nontoxic dose of TVX followed 3 h later by a nonhepatotoxic dose of LPS. Coexposure to TVX and LPS led to a significant increase in liver injury as determined by plasma alanine aminotransferase activity and histopathological examination. In contrast, coexposure of mice to LPS and levofloxacin (LVX), a fluoroquinolone without liability for causing IADRs in humans, was not hepatotoxic. Measurements of TNF alpha concentration in the plasma revealed a significant, selective increase in TVX/LPS-treated mice at times prior to and at the onset of liver injury. Treatment with either pentoxifylline to inhibit TNF alpha transcription or etanercept to inhibit TNF alpha activity significantly reduced TVX/LPS-induced liver injury. The results suggest that the model in mice is able to distinguish between drugs with and without the propensity to cause idiosyncratic liver injury and that the hepatotoxicity is dependent on TNF alpha.
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