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In Vitro Methodologies for the Safety Assessment of Drugs

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Since ages, drugs have been used in some form or the other for treatment of several diseases. Safety assessment of drug is an important step required to minimize the drug-associated side effects. Toxicology is an important branch that is required for the safety assessment of drugs. The pharmaceutical companies follow various screening methods during drug development to investigate the toxic effects of effective drugs. The liver, kidney, and heart are the major organs monitored for toxicity evaluation during the drug development. The safety evaluations of drugs are performed at both organ (in vivo) and cellular (in vitro) levels. Considering the increasing demand for alternate to animal models in present times, several cell line-based in vitro models have emerged to assess drug toxicity. Moreover, isolated mitochondria and freshly isolated hepatocytes have also gained importance to understand the mechanism behind the complex processes leading to cellular toxicity. In this chapter, we have discussed the methodologies commonly employed for the safety assessment of drugs.

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Shukla, V., Asthana, S., Tripathi, A. (2023). In Vitro Methodologies for the Safety Assessment of Drugs. In: Rajput, V.S., Runthala, A. (eds) Drugs and a Methodological Compendium . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7952-1_4

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