Immune-Mediated Drug Induced Liver Injury: A Multidisciplinary Approach

This thesis presents an approach to expose relationships between immune mediated drug induced liver injury (IMDILI) and the three-dimensional structural features of toxic drug molecules and their metabolites. The series of analyses test the hypothesis that drugs which produce similar patterns of toxicity interact with targets within common toxicological pathways and that activation of the underlying mechanisms depends on structural similarity among toxic molecules. Spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports were used to identify cases of IMDILI. Network map tools were used to compare the known and predicted protein interactions with each of the probe drugs to explore the interactions that are common between the drugs. The IMDILI probe set was then used to develop a pharmacophore model which became the starting point for identifying potential toxicity targets for IMDILI. Pharmacophore screening results demonstrated similarities between the probe IMDILI set of drugs and Toll-Like Receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists, suggesting TLR7 as a potential toxicity target. This thesis highlights the potential for multidisciplinary approaches in the study of complex diseases. Such approaches are particularly helpful for rare diseases where little knowledge is available, and may provide key insights into mechanisms of toxicity that cannot be gleaned from a single disciplinary study

Metabolómica de compuestos bioactivos: nuevos desarrollos metodológicos y aplicaciones

Tesis Doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada. Fecha de lectura: 14-09-2017Esta tesis tiene embargado el acceso al texto completo hasta el 14-03-201