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TOXICOLOGIC PATHOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 7, Pages 1134-1137Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0192623310382438
Keywords
biomarkers; clinical pathology; cardiovascular system; safety assessment
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Cardiac troponin (cTn) is a sensitive and specific biomarker for assessing cardiac damage and should be utilized in drug safety assessment. Lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase isoenzyme analyses have historically been used in pre-clinical toxicity testing to assess cardiac injury, but since these assays are less sensitive and specific than cTn, isoenzyme analyses, as determined by the manual electrophoretic technique, are no longer warranted. Commercial cTn assays developed for humans do not have the same immunoreactivity and functional sensitivity in the common pre-clinical testing species, so it is important to show that the assay that is chosen is appropriate for the pre-clinical species being assessed. The kinetics of the cTn response depends on the dose and frequency of test article administration as well as the mechanism of the cardiac injury induced by the test article. Cardiac troponin should be used in the assessment of classes of compound that have previously been shown to induce cardiac necrosis or if cardiac necrosis is identified histologically with a novel compound. Next generation high sensitivity cTn assays are being developed and the low levels of cTn detected with these assays may be an early sign of possibly reversible damage to the heart.
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