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In silico methods for chromosome damage [1]

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Authors

D. Baderna [2]; Ilse Van Overmeire [3]; G.J. Lavado [4]; D. Gadaleta [5]; Birgit Mertens [6]

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    Article written during project(s) : 
    LIFE-VERMEER Integrating VEGA, toxRead, MERLIN-Expo, and ERICA in a platform for risk assessment and substitution of risky substances [7]

    Abstract:

    Due to the link with serious adverse health effects, genotoxicity is an important toxicological endpoint in each regulatory setting with respect to human health, including for pharmaceuticals. To this extent, a compound’s potential to induce gene mutations as well as chromosome damage needs to be addressed. For chromosome damage, i.e. the induction of structural or numerical chromosome aberrations, several in vitro and in vivo test methods are available. In order to rapidly collect toxicological data without the need for test material, several in silico tools for chromosome damage have been…
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    Abstract

    Due to the link with serious adverse health effects, genotoxicity is an important toxicological endpoint in each regulatory setting with respect to human health, including for pharmaceuticals. To this extent, a compound's potential to induce gene mutations as well as chromosome damage needs to be addressed. For chromosome damage, i.e. the induction of structural or numerical chromosome aberrations, several in vitro and in vivo test methods are available. In order to rapidly collect toxicological data without the need for test material, several in silico tools for chromosome damage have been developed over the last years. In this chapter, a battery of freely available in silico chromosome damage prediction tools for chromosome damage is applied on a dataset of pharmaceuticals. Examples of the different outcomes obtained with the in silico battery are provided and briefly discussed. Furthermore, results for coumarin are presented in more detail as a case study. Overall, it can be concluded that, although they are in general less developed than those for mutagenicity, in silico tools for chromosome damage can provide valuable information, especially when combined in a battery.

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    [1] https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/silico-methods-chromosome-damage [2] https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio?f%5Bauthor%5D=178039&f%5Bsearch%5D=D.%20Baderna [3] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/ilse-van-overmeire/biblio [4] https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio?f%5Bauthor%5D=178040&f%5Bsearch%5D=G.J.%20Lavado [5] https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio?f%5Bauthor%5D=178041&f%5Bsearch%5D=D.%20Gadaleta [6] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/birgit-mertens/biblio [7] https://www.sciensano.be/en/projects/integrating-vega-toxread-merlin-expo-and-erica-a-platform-risk-assessment-and-substitution-risky