AuthorsA. Tveito, K. H. Jæger, M. Maleckar, W. R. Giles and S. Wall
TitleComputational translation of drug effects from animal experiments to human ventricular myocytes
AfilliationScientific Computing
Project(s)Department of Computational Physiology
StatusPublished
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2020
JournalNature Scientific Reports
Number10
Pagination10537
PublisherNature Publishing Group
Abstract

Using animal cells and tissues as precise measuring devices for developing new drugs presents a long- standing challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. Despite the very significant resources that continue to be dedicated to animal testing of new compounds, only qualitative results can be obtained. This often results in both false positives and false negatives. Here, we show how the effect of drugs applied to animal ventricular myocytes can be translated, quantitatively, to estimate a number of different effects of the same drug on human cardiomyocytes. We illustrate and validate our methodology by translating, from animal to human, the effect of dofetilide applied to dog cardiomyocytes, the effect of E-4031 applied to zebrafish cardiomyocytes, and, finally, the effect of sotalol applied to rabbit cardiomyocytes. In all cases, the accuracy of our quantitative estimates are demonstrated. Our computations reveal that, in principle, electrophysiological data from testing using animal ventricular myocytes, can give precise, quantitative estimates of the effect of new compounds on human cardiomyocytes.

URL https://rdcu.be/b5iBl
DOI10.1038/s41598-018-35858-7
Citation Key27367