Journal of Clinical Toxicology
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Liver and kidney damage induced by 4-aminopyridine in a repeated dose (28 days) oral toxicity study in rats

4^th Global Summit on Toxicology

August 24-26, 2015 Philadelphia, USA

Javier del Pino1, Mar�­a Teresa Frejo1, Mar�­a Jes�ºs D�­az1, Mar�­a Jos�© Anad�³n1, Paula Moyano1, Margarita Lobo1, Jimena Garc�­a2 and Miguel Andr�©s Capo1

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Clin Toxicol

Abstract :

4-Aminopyridine (4-AP) is an orphan drug indicated for the treatment of neuromuscular disorders. There is a great controversy
around the use of this drug because of its narrow safety index and because a large number of adverse effects have been reported.
Moreover, it was shown to induce cell death in different cell lines, being reported mainly apoptosis and necrosis as the principal
pathways of cell death mediated by blockage of K channels or the Na, K-ATPase, but until now it was not described in vivo cell death
induced by 4-aminipyridine. To provide new sub chronic toxicity data and specifically, evaluate if 4-AP (2, 4 and 10 mg/kg) is able
to induce in vivo cell death process and the main pathways related to it, a repeated dose (28 days) oral toxicity study, at therapeutic
range of doses, was conducted in rats. The anatomical pathology, the biochemical and hematological parameters were analyzed. The
leucocytes number, the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) enzymatic activity were increased at
all dose but the erythrocytes number, the hemoglobin concentration, the alkaline phosphatase (FAL) and alanine aminotransferase
(ALT) enzymatic activity were increased only at highest dose studied. However, glucose levels decreased at all doses. The biochemical
results are indicative of hepatic damage. The anatomy pathology studies showed cell death only on liver and kidney. The present work
shows for the first time in vivo cell death on liver and kidney.

Biography :

Javier Del Pino received his PharmD degree at the University Complutense University of Madrid in 2004. He has two Masters in Sciences 2009 and 2010. He specialized in
neurotoxicology and neurodevelopmental toxicology and received his PhD in Toxicology in 2009. In 2010 he worked in Institute of Health Carlos III in the National Center of
Environmental Health. From 2010 to 2012, he was Associated Researcher at University of Massachusetts (UMASS) working in Sandra Petersen´s Lab in a National Institute
of Health (NIH) project on developmental effects of TCDD endocrine disruptor on sexual differentiation. In 2012, he got a position as Assistant Professor of Toxicology at
the Complutense University of Madrid.