scholarly journals The In Vitro Cytotoxicity, Genotoxicity and Oxidative Damage Potential of the Oral Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor, Linagliptin, on Cultured Human Mononuclear Blood Cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Cadirci
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 692-698
Author(s):  
Kenan Çadırcı ◽  
Özlem Özdemir Tozlu ◽  
Hasan Türkez

Abstract Objectives Dapagliflozin (DAPA), is a potent SGLT-2 inhibitor for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. DAPA has a good clinical and biological tolerance profile. However little information is available on its potential effects on cultured human blood cells. The evaluation of the in vitro cytotoxicity, genotoxicity potential and antioxidant/oxidant activity of DAPA in primary human whole blood cell cultures was aimed in this study. Materials and methods Cell viability was measured by the MTT [3,(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide] and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage assays. The antioxidant/oxidant activity was determined by measuring the total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and total oxidative stress (TOS) levels. To assess the genotoxicity of DAPA, chromosomal aberration (CA) frequencies were determined. Results MTT and LDH release assay exhibited that exposure to different doses of DAPA did not changed significantly the proliferation of cells. The results of TAC and TOS assays were showed that TAC level was elevated while TOS level did not altered in DAPA-treated cells. Moreover, any increase in the frequency of CA did not found on cultures blood cells. Conclusion These data indicate that DAPA has not cytotoxic and genotoxic potential in cultured human blood cells, also, induces the increasing antioxidant activity.


2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 325-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somsuvra B. Ghatak ◽  
Devang S. Patel ◽  
Neeraj Shanker ◽  
Ambrish Srivastava ◽  
Shrikalp S. Deshpande ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1916
Author(s):  
Ágnes Kinyó ◽  
Anita Hanyecz ◽  
Zsuzsanna Lengyel ◽  
Dalma Várszegi ◽  
Péter Oláh ◽  
...  

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune blistering disease of elderly patients that has shown increasing incidence in the last decades. Higher prevalence of BP may be due to more frequent use of provoking agents, such as antidiabetic dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP4i) drugs. Our aim was to assess DPP4i-induced bullous pemphigoid among our BP patients and characterize the clinical, laboratory and histological features of this drug-induced disease form. In our patient cohort, out of 127 BP patients (79 females (62.2%), 48 males (37.7%)), 14 (9 females and 5 males) were treated with DPP4i at the time of BP diagnosis. The Bullous Pemphigoid Disease Area Index (BPDAI) urticaria/erythema score was significantly lower, and the BPDAI damage score was significantly higher in DPP4i-BP patients compared to the nonDPP4i group. Both the mean absolute eosinophil number and the mean periblister eosinophil number was significantly lower in DPP4i-BP patients than in nonDPP4i cases (317.7 ± 0.204 vs. 894.0 ± 1.171 cells/μL, p < 0.0001; 6.75 ± 1.72 vs. 19.09 ± 3.1, p = 0.0012, respectively). Our results provide further evidence that DPP4i-associated BP differs significantly from classical BP, and presents with less distributed skin symptoms, mild erythema, normal or slightly elevated peripheral eosinophil count, and lower titers of BP180 autoantibodies. To our knowledge, this is the first case series of DPP4i-related BP with a non-inflammatory phenotype in European patients.


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