Proximal tubules of the kidneys are one of the most common targets of nephrotoxic drugs and chemicals. Screens to predict nephrotoxic potential of compounds with insights to mechanisms of toxicity facilitate lead optimization, guide structure-activity relationships, minimize risks of clinical nephrotoxicity and therefore are valuable in the process of drug discovery. Innoprot has developed an…
Cardiotoxicity is a condition when the heart has problems to pump properly. One of the most common events for a heart dysfunction is the toxicity of the functional cardiac cells –cardiomyocytes-. The most usual mechanisms involved in the cardiac cell dysfunction are; the oxidative extress, the DNA damage and the caspase activation with the subsequent…
Neurotoxicity is the capacity of certain compounds to affect the normal activity of the neurons. The mechanism involving the neuron citotoxicity can be several: oxidative stress, DNA damage, cytoskeleton dysfunction or apoptosis. We analyze the following parameters in the Neurotoxicity Assay: Cell Viability Apoptosis: Caspase 3/7 Activation Membrane Damage Neurite Outgrowth Mitochondrial Damage In this…
Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) is the most common event causing during the drug withdrawals. But the causes of the hepatic failure provoked by the chemical compounds could be several. Due to this reason, a multiparametric assay is needed to predict toxicities that could be hidden in a simple one parameter assay. We analyze the following…