Saturday 23 october 2010


2nd Joint Meeting « Hepatocyte User Group & Medicon Valley Hepatocyte User Forum »


Saturday 23 October 2010

9:00
Session 3:
   
 
Cell culture systems: how to accommodate uptake and efflux transport with efficient drug metabolism?
  Chairman: Lassina Badolo
 


9:00-9:30 Interplay of drug metabolism and transport: A real phenomenon or an artifact of the site of measurement?
  Jashvant Unadkat, University of Washington, Seattle - USA
   
9:30-10:00 ProtoTissue ® : A new functional human 3D liver tissue for in vitro drug testing.
  Stephen Fey, CEO Drug Mode - Denmark
   
10:00-10:30 Coffee break - Visit of exhibition - Posters
   
10:30-11:00 Stability of transporters and cytochrome P450s in hepatocyte culture systems.
 

Jacob Kramer Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark

   
11:00-11:30 An update on metabolism studies using human hepatocytes in primary culture.
  Maria-José Gomez-Lechon, Hospital La Fe, Valencia - Spain
   
11:30-12:45
Oral communications
  Chairman: Lena Gustavsson
 


11:30-11:45 New in-vitro systems as organ models for hepatic culture
  Tommaso Sbrana et al., Universita di Pisa, Pisa - Italy
   
11:45-12:00 Hepatic uptake transport in individual versus pooled cryopreserved human hepatocytes
  Tom De Bruyn et al., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven - Belgium
   
12:00-12:15 Medium flow stimutates the expression and activity of detoxication genes in primary human hepatocytes cultured in a multicompartment modular bioreactor
  Cédric Duret et al., Inserm, Montpellier - France
   
12:15-12:30 Development of a liver microfluidic bioreactor for toxicity and drug metabolism investigations
  Prot J-M et al., Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne - France
   
12:30-12:45 A new mitochondrial-based apoptotic test adapted to HepaRG hepatocytes applied to high throughput screening of hepatotoxic compounds using automated imaging analysis
  K. Pernelle et al., Rennes-1 University, Rennes - France
   
   
12:45-14:00
Lunch - Visit of exhibition - Posters
 


14:00-15:00
General discussion - Oral communications & posters awards - Closing

 

 

2nd Joint Meeting