PEPITA: Parallelized High-Throughput Quantification of Ototoxicity and Otoprotection in Zebrafish Larvae.

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作者:Nilles Elizabeth M, Bustad Ethan, Qin Meng, Mudrock Emma, Gu Alden, Galitan Louie, Ou Henry C, Hernandez Rafael E, Ma Shuyi
Drug-induced hearing injury (ototoxicity) is a common, debilitating side effect of many antibiotic regimens that can be worsened by adverse drug interactions. Such adverse drug interactions are often not detected until after drugs are already on the market because of the difficulty of measuring all possible drug combinations. While in vivo mammalian assays to screen for ototoxic damage exist, they are currently time-consuming, costly, and limited in throughput, which limits their utility in assessing drug interaction outcomes. To facilitate more rapid quantification of ototoxicity and assessment of adverse drug interactions that impact ototoxicity, we have developed a high-throughput workflow we call parallelized evaluation of protection and injury for toxicity assessment (PEPITA). PEPITA uses zebrafish larvae to quantify ototoxic damage and protection. Previous work has shown that hair cells (HCs) in the zebrafish lateral line are very similar to human inner ear HCs, meaning zebrafish are a viable model to test drug-induced ototoxicity. In PEPITA, we expose zebrafish larvae to different combinations of drugs, fluorescently label the HCs, and subsequently use microscopy to quantify the brightness of the fluorescently labeled HCs as an assay for ototoxic damage and hair-cell viability. PEPITA is a reproducible, low-cost, technically accessible, and high-throughput assay. These advantages allow many experiments to be conducted in parallel, paving the way for systematic evaluation of drug-induced hearing injury and other multidrug interactions. Key features • Analysis of drug-induced hair cell damage associated with ototoxicity using Danio rerio • Ototoxicity assessment performed in vivo • Uses microscopy to generate images to assay ototoxicity quantitatively. • Enables testing of various combinations of drugs at various doses to determine toxicity-associated drug-drug interaction outcomes (synergy, antagonism).

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