Dose‐dependent hepatotoxicity of hydrogen peroxide in HepG2 cells and its modulation by CYP450 induction

Maren Jinks, Garth L. Maker, Emily C. Davies, Berin A. Boughton, Samantha Lodge · 2026

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Maren Jinks and co-authors watch liver cells' chemistry unravel dose by dose under hydrogen peroxide attack. Their 2026 study exposes HepG2 liver cells to low, medium and high peroxide levels and reads the fallout with NMR metabolomics, inside and outside the cells. Such lab liver models, paired with chemical profiling, promise toxicology answers without animal testing.

Damage widened with dose: a few metabolites shifted at low exposure, while the highest level disturbed most of those measured. Pretreating cells with rifampicin to wake their cytochrome P450 enzymes, normally sleepy in this cell line, changed how the high dose played out. The work shows dose and metabolic readiness together shape what a toxin appears to do.

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CREATORMaren Jinks, Garth L. Maker, Emily C. Davies, Berin A. Boughton, Samantha Lodge
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE37197
LICENSEhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13398862

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