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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Hematol. 2015 Oct 12;90(12):1111–1115. doi: 10.1002/ajh.24186

TABLE II.

Preclinical Studies to Determine the Embryo-Fetal Toxicity of Dasatinib

Rats Rabbits


Dasatinib (mg/kg/day)

Drug-related effectsa 2.5 5 10 20 0.5 2 6


Maternal effects
  Body weight gain during dosing D D D D NC NC NC
  Body weight gain postdosing D D D N/A NC NC NC
  Body weight postdosing D D D D NC NC NC
Embryo-fetal effects
  Fetal skeletal abnormalities I I N/A N/A I I I
  Embryolethality I I I I NC NC
NC No surviving fetuses NC NC I I NC
NC NC
a

Compared with untreated controls.

I, increased; D, decreased; NC, no change; N/A, not applicable.