Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one the rare adverse drug reaction (ADR) and multifactorial endpoints. Current preclinical animal models struggle to anticipate it, and in silico methods have emerged as a way with significant potential for doing s...
With the aim of helping to set safe exposure limits for the general population, various techniques have been implemented to conduct risk assessments for chemicals and other environmental stressors; however, none of these tools facilitate the identifi...
Nanoparticle toxicity analysis is critical for evaluating the safety of nanomaterials due to their potential harm to the biological system. However, traditional experimental methods for evaluating nanoparticle toxicity are expensive and time-consumin...
The human ether-à-go-go-related gene (hERG) encodes the Kv11.1 voltage-gated potassium ion (K) channel that conducts the rapidly activating delayed rectifier current (I) in cardiomyocytes to regulate the repolarization process. Some drugs, as blocker...
Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) and their networks are important tools for the development of mechanistically based non-animal testing approaches, such as in vitro and/or in silico assays, to assess toxicity induced by chemicals. In the present study...
The 3Rs concept, calling for replacement, reduction and refinement of animal experimentation, is receiving increasing attention around the world, and has found its way to legislation, in particular in the European Union. This is aligned by continuing...
This study was undertaken to evaluate the use of ontology-based semantic mapping (OS-Mapping) in chemical toxicity assessment. Nineteen chemical-species phenotypic profiles (CSPPs) were constructed by ontologically annotating the toxicity responses r...
Cancer is one of the main causes of death in Western countries, and a major issue for human health. Prolonged exposure to a number of chemicals was observed to be one of the primary causes of cancer in occupationally exposed persons. Thus, the develo...