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HUMAN & EXPERIMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 261-265Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1191/096032700678815837
Keywords
immunosuppressants; carcinogenicity; alternative models
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Drugs intended for use in preventing allograft rejection in transplant patients are likely to be administered chronically; thus, it is normally expected that sponsors would conduct nonclinical studies to determine the carcinogenic potential of candidate compounds. For pharmaceuticals other than biologic agents, this would mean that rodent carcinogenicity bioassays would be performed under most circumstances. Immunosuppressant drugs have presented unique challenges with respect to the issue of carcinogenicity bioassays. The pharmacological activity of therapeutic immunosuppressants is thought to make them highly likely to act as promoters/cocarcinogens, even in the absence of genotoxic activity. Thus, it is assumed that this class of drug would represent a carcinogenic hazard in the absence of confirmatory standard rodent bioassay data. In addition, rodents typically have been sensitive to the pharmacological/toxicological effects of immunosuppressants, It has proven to be difficult, therefore, to conduct life-time bioassays at doses reasonably equivalent to those that would be used clinically. For this and other reasons, alternative models might be more appropriate for risk assessment with this class of drugs.
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