The concept of drug dose for in vitro studies with chemotherapeutic agents.
The concept of drug dose for in vitro studies with chemotherapeutic agents.
复制标题
化疗药物体外研究的药物剂量概念。
作者:
K. Wheeler;V. Levin;D. Deen
Determination of the radiation dose delivered to or received by tissue culture cells during irradiation in vitro is relatively straightforward compared to determination of the drug dose delivered to or received by these same cells when treated with chemicals agents. After defining drug exposure dose and drug absorbed dose, this paper uses pharmacokinetic and cell survival data collected from experiments where rat 9L brain tumor cells were treated in culture with BCNU and CCNU to illustrate the problems and principles involved in adequately assessing the appropriate drug dose in such experiments. Practical solutions to these experimental problems are presented for many of those situations where pharmacokinetic data is either unobtainable or unavailable. It is hoped that the concepts illustrated here will provide a more uniform framework for performing interpretable in vitro drug experiments.