Publications by authors named "E I Krajnc"

Mitochondrial damage is considered a hallmark of drug-induced liver injury (DILI). However, despite the common molecular etiology, the evolution of the injury is usually unpredictable, with some cases that are mild and reversible upon discontinuation of the treatment and others characterized by irreversible acute liver failure. This suggests that additional mechanisms of damage play a role in determining the progression of the initial insult.

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Farnesoid X receptor (FXR), or NR1H4, protects the liver from insults of various etiologies. A role of FXR in drug-induced liver injury has also been hypothesized yet only marginally investigated. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of FXR activation on gene expression and phenotype of the liver of mice treated with valproic acid (VPA), or 2-propylpentanoic acid, a prototypical hepatotoxic drug.

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Nephrotoxicity is a relevant limitation of gentamicin, and obese patients have an increased risk for gentamicin-induced kidney injury. This damage is thought to depend on the accumulation of the drug in the renal cortex. Obese rats showed substantially higher levels of gentamicin in the kidney than did lean animals.

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Collection of toxicokinetic data has become a routine practice during the last 15 years in most general toxicity studies on pharma. It enables the correlation of pathological changes with the plasma concentration of drugs and/or their metabolites. This overview summarizes the use of the toxicokinetic data from the perspective of the toxicologic pathologist.

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Hormonal steroids have a widespread use in medicine and their side effects are continuously debated. The possible genotoxic activity of steroids has been the subject of many investigations. The natural estrogens estradiol, estrone and estriol are generally negative in the ICH core battery of tests, but several positive results have been obtained when using additional endpoints of genotoxicity.

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