CAN WR-2721 BE IMPROVED UPON
CAN WR-2721 BE IMPROVED UPON
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DOI:
10.1016/0163-7258(88)90057-5
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发表时间:
1988-01-01
影响因子:
13.5
通讯作者:
SHAW, LM
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作者:
BROWN, DQ;GRAHAM, WJ;SHAW, LM
1. BACKGROUNDWR-2721 (S-2 (3-aminopropylamino) ethylphosphorothioic acid, ethiofos) was found to be the most effective chemical radioprotector of 4400 compounds synthesized and tested by the Antiradiation Drug Development Program sponsored by the US Army Medical Research and Development Command over the period 1959 to 1973 (Piper et al., 1969; Davidson et al., 1980; Sweeney, 1979). The effectiveness of WR-2721 as a chemical radioprotector against the hematopoietic and gastrointestinal (GI) modes of death of mice was first reported by Yuhas and Storer (1969a). These investigators also reported that WR-2721 provided highly selective differential radioprotection of normal tissues (hematopoietic tissue, GI system and skin) in comparison with tumor (mouse mammary carcinoma)(Yuhas and Storer, 1969b). In the years since then, radioprotection by WR-2721 has been demonstrated in several additional species: rats, guinea pigs and monkeys (Yuhas, 1980b), dogs (Thrall et al., 1980; Davidson et al., 1980) and man (Tanaka and Sugahara, 1980; Constine et al., 1986). Substantial WR-2721 radioprotection has been observed for a number of additional tissues and endpoints (Table 1) but usually not for the central nervous system (CNS) or for large solid tumors. These large variations in radioprotection from one tissue/organ to another are related primarily to:(a) Uptake of WR-2721, which is, for example, large in submandibular glands (Rasey et al., 1984) and small in the CNS and in most solid tumors (Washburn et al., 1974; Utley and Kane, 1980; Rasey et al., 1986).(b) Tissue and cell P02 levels that are either too high (eg lung) or too low (eg tumors) to permit effective competition with a radioprotector according to the competition model of radioprotection (Travis et al., 1984; Chapman et al., 1973).(c) Tissue-specific variations in levels of alkaline phosphatase (Bourne, 1943), which activates (ie dephosphorylates) WR-2721 to the active sulfhydryl protector WR-1065 [2-(3-aminopropylamino)-ethanethiol]. Support for this idea comes from demonstrations that WR-2721 is dephosphorylated by alkaline phosphatase, not acid phosphatase (Shaw et al., 1984; Calabro-Jones et al., 1985; Nakamura et al., 1987). This is consistent with the substantial WR-2721 radioprotection of the GI tract, liver hcpatocytes, vasculature and parotid gland (Table 1) and the usual lack of WR-2721 uptake and radioprotection of cells in culture (Ritter et al., 1982; Purdie, 1979).