Approaches to High Throughput Toxicity Screening

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C. K. Atterwill, P. Goldfarb, W Purcell
CRC Press, Dec 16, 1999 - Medical - 200 pages
An integrated approach to in vitro toxicology and ADME screening using new technologies and discussing how they might be applied to the safety assessment of new pharamceutical products in drug discovery.

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Introduction
7
Automation and Technology for HTS in Drug Development
9
23 Automation of the biological assay
13
24 Miniaturization trends in high throughput screening
17
25 Conclusions
27
Cytotoxicity and Mechanistic Studies in High Throughput Toxicity Screening
31
32 Basal cytotoxicity screens
32
33 Selective cytotoxicity
34
52 Factors that determine the stress gene response
75
53 The utility of stress genes as markers of cell toxicity
78
54 Detection methods and screening for stress gene expression
79
The Utility of Branched DMA bDNAI Assays in High Throughput Toxicity Screening
91
62 Cellbased bDNA assay
92
63 bDNA assays for toxicity screening
95
64 bDNA assay performance
97
66 Discussion
103

34 Mechanisticallybased tests for toxicity
35
35 Conclusions
39
Gene Expression and its Applications to High Throughput Screens and Molecular Toxicology
43
43 The advent of gene microarrays and their impact on toxicology
44
44 Developing high throughput gene expression toxicity screens
46
46 Differential display
47
47 SAGE
48
48 AFLP
49
49 Measuring lexicologically relevant genes with microarrays
51
410 Devising strategies for deriving toxicity rules
52
411 Deriving gene expressiontoxicity rules
53
412 High throughput gene expression systems
54
413 Reporter constructs
57
414 Validating gene expressiontoxicity rules
59
416 Conclusions
61
Note in proof
66
Early Toxic Stressor Genes Modulation and Screening Technologies
69
Methods for Assessing Apoptosis
107
morphological features
109
biochemical features
111
a new challenge for toxicologists
115
75 Morphological analysis of apoptotic cells
118
76 Biochemical analysis of apoptosis
119
77 Choice of methods to study druginduced apoptosis
129
78 Conclusions
130
Genetically Modified Cells to Assess Drug Metabolism In Vitro
139
82 In vitro methods for prediction of human drug metabolism
148
83 Heterologous expression systems for drug metabolizing enzymes
150
The Future of High Throughput Screening and Pharmacotoxicology
171
93 The validation of HTS systems
174
References
177
Index
179
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