Flow cytometric monitoring of anthracycline transport in tumor cells.
Flow cytometric monitoring of anthracycline transport in tumor cells.
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流式细胞仪监测肿瘤细胞中蒽环类药物的转运。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb42030.x
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Krishan,A
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作者:
Krishan,A
Anthracyclines such as adriamycin and daunomycin are important cancer chemotherapeutic agents.'Major differences in cellular transport and binding characteristics of various anthracyclines have been described. &'Most of the anthracyclines are fluorescent and can be easily excited with the 488 nm laser emission from an argon laser.". 5 Some of the well-known anthracyclines such as adriamycin are slowly transported across cellular membranes while others (eg, daunomycin) are rapidly transported?.'Whereas adriamycin and daunomycin bind to chromatin: anthracyclines such as AD 32 do not bind to chromatin.'Most of the anthracylines are highly fluorescent and thus are ideally suited for analysis by laser excitation and flow cytometry. This technique offers the advantage of identifying subpopulations based on their cellular fl~ orescence?~ rapid monitoring of drug uptake and the added advantage that selected cells can be sorted for further analysis by other means. In earlier reports we have used this method for monitoring anthracycline transport in tissue culture cells, in drug resistant cells, and in tissues isolated from animals injected with adriamy~ in. 4.~Cellular resistance to anthracyclines has been suggested to be due to a mechanism for rapid drug efflux from resistant cells? Thus, drugs that will affect drug efflux and enhance drug retention can modify cellular resistance to anthracyclines. Several recent studies have shown that in fact calcium channel blockers and phenothiazines will inhibit drug efflux from resistant cells and thereby render them drug sensitive. 1-16 It would be useful if before the administration of anthracyclines and agents that affect their cellular efflux in vivo, we could screen tumor cells in vitro for their anthracycline transport characteristics. As shown in the following sections, we have used laser flow cytometry (for excitation of intracellular anthracycline content) to monitor drug fluorescence in tumor cells and to monitor the effect of drug efflux blocking agents on drug retention.