PMID- 37286362 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230918 LR - 20230920 IS - 1521-009X (Electronic) IS - 0090-9556 (Linking) VI - 51 IP - 10 DP - 2023 Oct TI - Use of Traditional and Proteomic Methods in the Assessment of a Preclinical Model of Preeclampsia. PG - 1308-1315 LID - 10.1124/dmd.122.001080 [doi] AB - Recent studies have demonstrated downregulation of breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP/ABCG2) in placenta obtained from women with preeclampsia (PE). BCRP is highly expressed in placenta and plays an important role in preventing xenobiotics from entering the fetal compartment. Although PE is often therapeutically managed with drugs that are substrates of BCRP, there are limited studies on the impact of PE on fetal drug exposure. Due to ethical concerns, use of preclinical models is an important approach. Thus, by using proteomic and traditional methods, we characterized transporter changes in an immunologic rat model of PE to determine its utility and predictive value for future drug disposition studies. PE was induced by daily administration of low-dose endotoxin (0.01-0.04 mg/kg) to rats on gestational days (GD) 13-16, urine was collected, and rats were sacrificed on GD17 or GD18. PE rats shared similar phenotype to PE patients, including proteinuria, and increased levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 6. Transcript and protein levels of Bcrp were significantly downregulated in placenta of PE rats on GD18. multidrug resistance 1a, multidrug resistance 1b, and organic anion transporting polypeptide 2B1 mRNA were also decreased in PE. Proteomics revealed activation of various hallmarks of PE including immune activation, oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis. Overall, our results demonstrated that the immunologic PE rat model exhibits numerous similarities to human PE along with dysregulation of placental transporters. Therefore, this model may be useful in examining the impact of PE on the maternal and fetal disposition of BCRP substrates. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Fully characterizing preclinical models of disease is necessary to determine their validity to human conditions. Combining traditional and proteomic methods of model characterization, we identified numerous phenotypic similarities between our model of preeclampsia and human disease. The alignment with human pathophysiological changes allows for more confident use of this preclinical model. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. FAU - Dai, Wanying AU - Dai W AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. FAU - Pollinzi, Angela AU - Pollinzi A AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. FAU - Piquette-Miller, Micheline AU - Piquette-Miller M AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada m.piquette.miller@utoronto.ca. LA - eng GR - PJT-169195/CIHR/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20230607 PL - United States TA - Drug Metab Dispos JT - Drug metabolism and disposition: the biological fate of chemicals JID - 9421550 RN - 0 (ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily G, Member 2) RN - 0 (ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters) RN - 0 (Neoplasm Proteins) RN - 0 (Pharmaceutical Preparations) SB - IM MH - Pregnancy MH - Rats MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Animals MH - *Placenta/metabolism MH - ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily G, Member 2/genetics/metabolism MH - *Pre-Eclampsia/metabolism/pathology MH - Proteomics MH - ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/metabolism MH - Neoplasm Proteins/metabolism MH - Pharmaceutical Preparations/metabolism EDAT- 2023/06/08 01:08 MHDA- 2023/09/18 12:42 CRDT- 2023/06/07 21:37 PHST- 2022/08/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/05/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/09/18 12:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/06/08 01:08 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/06/07 21:37 [entrez] AID - dmd.122.001080 [pii] AID - 10.1124/dmd.122.001080 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Drug Metab Dispos. 2023 Oct;51(10):1308-1315. doi: 10.1124/dmd.122.001080. Epub 2023 Jun 7.