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LIINTOP<br />

Optimisation of Liver & Intestine In Vitro<br />

Models for Pharmacokinetics &<br />

Pharmacodynamics Studies<br />

Contract number:<br />

LSHB-CT-2006-037499<br />

Project type:<br />

Specific Targeted Research Project (FP6)<br />

EU Contribution: € 2,933,291<br />

Starting date: 1 January 2007<br />

Ending date: 30 June 2010<br />

Website: liintop.cnr.it<br />

Objectives<br />

The main aim of the project was to provide optimized protocols and experimental in<br />

vitro models for testing intestinal and liver absorption and metabolism of molecules of<br />

pharmacological interest. The scientific and technological objectives of the project can<br />

be divided in five main areas, as follows:<br />

1. Characterisation and/or production of advanced in vitro liver and intestinal models<br />

in order to provide improved performance in screening and testing of new drugs’<br />

absorption and metabolism:<br />

• Comparison of selected functions in the hepatic and intestinal in vitro cellular<br />

models with the corresponding normal human tissue ex vivo (i.e., primary human<br />

hepatocytes or human intestinal epithelium)<br />

• Characterisation of available intestinal cell lines and selection of the most appropriate<br />

model and of the optimal conditions to obtain good and reproducible<br />

differentiation<br />

• Optimisation of the culture conditions to make the models stable over time for<br />

specialised functions<br />

• Testing a new strategy using chromatin-remodelling agents (histone deacetylase<br />

inhibitors) to induce differentiation in primary hepatocyte-based models<br />

• Setting up new approaches to generate metabolically competent human hepatic<br />

cell lines. This includes genetic manipulation of existing cell lines (HepG2,<br />

HepaRG) transfected with key transcription factors, in order to allow an appro-<br />

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PROGRESS REPORTS FROM EU-FUNDED PROJECTS<br />

Progress Report 2011 & AXLR8-2 Workshop Report

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