Abstract
Abstract
Neratinib is a pan-HER tyrosine kinase inhibitor newly approved by FDA in 2017 to treat HER2-positive breast cancer, but the phase III trial of neratinib showed that 96% of the patients taking neratinib experienced diarrhea. So far very few mechanistic studies explore neratinib-induced gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity. Hereby, we performed toxicity studies in mice to characterize the potential mechanism underlying this adverse effect. C57BL/6 J mice were separated into three groups A, B, C. Group A received vehicle; group B was orally dosed with 100 mg/kg neratinib once daily for 18 days. Group C was dosed with 100 mg/kg neratinib for 12 days and switched to vehicle for 6 days. Intestine and liver were collected for further analysis. Human intestine-derived cells were treated with neratinib in vitro. Our results showed that 12 days treatment of neratinib caused persistent histological damage in mouse GI tract. Both gene expression and activity of Cyp3a11, the major enzyme metabolizing neratinib in mice was reduced in small intestine. The gene expression of proinflammatory cytokines increased throughout the GI tract. Such damages were not recovered after 6 days without neratinib treatment. In addition, in vitro data showed that neratinib was potent in killing human intestine-derived cell lines. Based on such findings, we hypothesized that neratinib downregulates intestinal CYP3A enzyme to cause excessive drug disposition, eventually leading to gut injury.
Funder
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Toxicology
Cited by
8 articles.
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