PHARMACOKINETIC CYTOKINETIC PRINCIPLES IN THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF SOLID TUMORS
PHARMACOKINETIC CYTOKINETIC PRINCIPLES IN THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF SOLID TUMORS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1440-1681.1995.tb01943.x
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发表时间:
1995-11-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
FINLAY, GJ
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作者:
BAGULEY, BC;FINLAY, GJ
1. The solid tumour has various properties which tend to minimize the effects of a cytotoxic agent; the low vascular density of tumours, in particular, limits the diffusion of many anti-tumour drugs.2. This applies particularly to two general classes of anticancer drugs which already play an important role in chemotherapy: mitotic poisons and topoisomerase poisons. Such compounds bind strongly to proteins and/or DNA, and their diffusion from the bloodstream into solid tumours is slow, as is their clearance from tumour tissue.3. The specific question posed here is whether anti-cancer compounds of these types are more cytotoxic when administered at a low concentration for a long time (mimicking conditions in solid tumours) than at a correspondingly high concentration for a short time (mimicking conditions in host tissue), Two possible principles may be involved, the first based on cytokinetic considerations and the second on self-inhibition of drug cytotoxicity.4. Using cultured human cancer cells we have shown that taxol, which acts on mitotic cells and camptothecin, which acts on S-phase cells, are examples of the first principle. Exposures to high drug concentrations for short times are much less cytotoxic than exposure to correspondingly lower drug concentrations for a longer time (with the same concentration X time of exposure), We also show that the drug DACA (N-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]acridine-4-carboxamide), developed in this laboratory and currently undergoing clinical trial, achieves the same result through the principle of self-inhibition of cytotoxicity.5. Matching of the cytokinetic or self-inhibitory profile of a drug's action with the pharmacokinetics of drug in tumours may provide new drugs with increased anti-tumour effects.