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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 677 (1993), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1749-6632
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0843
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Bizelesin (U-77779) is a highly potent bis-alkylating antitumor agent that is effective against several tumor systems in vitro and in vivo. V79 cells that were 125-to 250-fold resistant to bizelesin developed after constant exposure to gradually increasing concentrations of the drug. Resistant cells exhibited a multidrug-resistant phenotype and genotype as indicated by cross-resistance to several structurally and functionally unrelated drugs, e. g., colchicine, actinomycin D, and Adriamycin, and overexpression of mdr mRNA. Very low levels of cross-resistance to the alkylating, agents cisplatin and melphalan were seen. Multidrug-resistant mouse leukemia (P388/Adriamycin-resistant) and human (KB/vinblastine-resistant) cells were also resistant to bizelesin. Bizelesin resistance was unstable and decreased when cells were grown in the absence of the drug. Resistant and sensitive cell lines had similar levels of glutathione, and bizelesin cytotoxicity for resistant cells was not markedly affected by treatment with buthionine sulfoximine. Cross-resistance between bizelesin and several of its analogs is reported.
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  • 3
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology 32 (1993), S. 235-242 
    ISSN: 1432-0843
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Taxol is a clinically active anticancer drug, which exerts its cytotoxicity by the unique mechanism of polymerizing tubulin monomers into microtubules and stabilizing microtubules. Our studies with ovarian (hamster CHO and human A2780) cells showed that taxol is a phase-specific agent that is much more cytotoxic to mitotic cells than interphase cells. First, the dose-survival pattern of taxol resembled that of other phase-specific agents, in which cell-kill reached a plateau at a certain concentration. This suggests that the asynchronous cell population consists of a taxol-sensitive (presumably mitotic) fraction and a taxol-resistant fraction. Second, the cells were more responsive to increased exposure time than to increased dose above the plateau concentration. Third, in both asynchrounous and synchronous cultures taxol was much more cytotoxic to mitotic than interphase (G1, S and G2) cells. Fourth, the taxol concentration needed to kill cells corresponded to the dose needed to block cells in mitosis. Although taxol blocked cells in mitosis, the mitotic block was of short duration. Cells escaped the mitotic block, without cytokinesis, and entered the next round of DNA synthesis to form multinucleated polyploid cells. Taxol was 15-to 25-fold more toxic to A2780 (human ovarian carcinoma) cells compared to CHO cells. This difference in sensitivity correlated with a higher intracellular taxol concentration in A2780 as compared to CHO as determined by either an ELISA assay or by [H3]-taxol uptake.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0843
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Adozelesin (U-73975) was highly cytotoxic to V79 cells in culture and was more cytotoxic than several clinically active antitumor drugs as determined in a human tumor-cloning assay. Phase-specificity studies showed that cells in the M + early G1 phase were most resistant to adozelesin and those in the late G1 + early S phase were most sensitive. Adozelesin transiently slowed cell progression through the S phase and then blocked cells in G2. Some cells escaped the G2 block and either divided or commenced a second round of DNA synthesis (without undergoing cytokinesis) to become tetraploid. Adozelesin inhibited DNA synthesis more than it did RNA or protein synthesis. However, the dose needed for inhibition of DNA synthesis was 10-fold that required for inhibition of L1210 cell growth. The observation that cell growth was inhibited at doses that did not cause significant inhibition of DNA synthesis and that cells were ultimately capable of completing two rounds of DNA synthesis in the presence of the drug suggests that adozelesin did not exert its cytotoxicity by significant inhibition of DNA synthesis. It is likely that adozelesin alkylates DNA at specific sites, which leads to transient inhibition of DNA synthesis and subsequent G2 blockade followed by a succession of events (polyploidy and unbalanced growth) that result in cell death.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0843
    Keywords: Key words Azodelesin combinations ; Antitumor drugs ; other agents
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  Adozelesin is a highly potent alkylating agent that undergoes binding in the minor groove of double-stranded DNA (ds-DNA) at A-T-rich sequences followed by covalent bonding with N-3 of adenine in preferred sequences. On the basis of its high-potency, broad-spectrum in vivo antitumor activity and its unique mechanism of action, adozelesin has entered clinical trial. We report herein the cytotoxicity for Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells of several agents, including antitumor drugs, combined with adozelesin. The additive, synergistic, or antagonistic nature of the combined drug effect was determined for most combinations using the median-effect principle. The results show that in experiments using DNA- and RNA-synthesis inhibitors, prior treatment with the DNA inhibitor aphidicolin did not affect the lethality of adozelesin. Therefore, ongoing DNA synthesis is not needed for adozelesin cytotoxicity. Combination with the RNA inhibitor cordycepin also did not affect adozelesin cytotoxicity. In experiments with alkylating agents, combinations of adozelesin with melphalan or cisplatin were usually additive or slightly synergistic. Adozelesin-tetraplatin combinations were synergistic at several different ratios of the two drugs, and depending on the schedule of exposure to drug. In experiments using methylxanthines, adozelesin combined synergistically with noncytotoxic doses of caffeine or pentoxifylline and resulted in several logs of increase in adozelesin cytotoxicity. In experiments with hypomethylating agents, adozelesin combined synergistically with 5-azacytidine (5-aza-CR) and 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine (5-aza-2′-CdR). Combinations of adozelesin with tetraplatin or 5-aza-2′-CdR were also tested against B16 melanoma cells in vitro and were found to be additive and synergistic, respectively. The synergistic cytotoxicity to CHO cells of adozelesin combinations with tetraplatin, 5-aza-CR, or pentoxifylline was not due to increased adozelesin uptake or increased alkylation of DNA by adozelesin.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0843
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. Bizelesin (U-77779) is a highly potent bis-alkylating antitumor agent that is effective against several tumor systems in vitro and in vivo. V79 cells that were 125- to 250-fold resistant to bizelesin developed after constant exposure to gradually increasing concentrations of the drug. Resistant cells exhibited a multidrug-resistant phenotype and genotype as indicated by cross-resistance to several structurally and functionally unrelated drugs, e. g., colchicine, actinomycin D, and Adriamycin, and overexpression of mdr mRNA. Very low levels of cross-resistance to the alkylating agents cisplatin and melphalan were seen. Multidrug-resistant mouse leukemia (P388/Adriamycin-resistant) and human (KB/vinblastine-resistant) cells were also resistant to bizelesin. Bizelesin resistance was unstable and decreased when cells were grown in the absence of the drug. Resistant and sensitive cell lines had similar levels of glutathione, and bizelesin cytotoxicity for resistant cells was not markedly affected by treatment with buthionine sulfoximine. Cross-resistance between bizelesin and several of its analogs is reported.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-0843
    Keywords: Azodelesin combinations ; Antitumor drugs ; other agents
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Adozelesin is a highly potent alkylating agent that undergoes binding in the minor groove of double-stranded DNA (ds-DNA) at A-T-rich sequences followed by covalent bonding with N-3 of adenine in preferred sequences. On the basis of its highpotency, broad-spectrum in vivo antitumor activity and its unique mechanism of action, adozelesin has entered clinical trial. We report herein the cytotoxicity for Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells of several agents, including antitumor drugs, combined with adozelesin. The additive, synergistic, or antagonistic nature of the combined drug effect was determined for most combinations using the median-effect principle. The results show that in experiments using DNA- and RNA-synthesis inhibitors, prior treatment with the DNA inhibitor aphidicolin did not affect the lethality of adozelesin. Therefore, ongoing DNA synthesis is not needed for adozelesin cytotoxicity. Combination with the RNA inhibitor cordycepin also did not affect adozelesin cytotoxicity. In experiments with alkylating agents, combinations of adozelesin with melphalan or cisplatin were usually additive or slightly synergistic. Adozelesin-tetraplatin combinations were synergistic at several different ratios of the two drugs, and depending on the schedule of exposure to drug. In experiments using methylxanthines, adozelesin combined synergistically with noncytotoxic doses of caffeine or pentoxifylline and resulted in several logs of increase in adozelesin cytotoxicity. In experiments with hypomethylating agents, adozelesin combined synergistically with 5-azacytidine (5-aza-CR) and 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine (5-aza-2′-CdR). Combinations of adozelesin with tetraplatin or 5-ara-2′-CdR were also tested against B16 melanoma cells in vitro and were found to be additive and synergistic, respectively. The synergistic cytotoxicity to CHO cells of adozelesin combinations with tetraplatin, 5-aza-CR, or pentoxifylline was not due to increased adozelesin uptake or increased alkylation of DNA by adozelesin.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1573-0646
    Keywords: cytotoxicity ; prostaglandin D2 ; drug combinations ; B16 melanoma
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) is lethal to murine and human melanoma cells at high doses, but synchronizes cells at G1 at non-toxic doses (2.5 or 5 μg/ml). We tested the lethality to B16 mouse melanoma cells of combinations of PGD2 with anticancer drugs. The drugs selected were mostly those used in treating human melanoma: actinomycin D, Bleomycin, BCNU, cis-platin, melphalan, 5-fluorouracil, and 1-β-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (ara-C). PGD2 was combined with the drugs according to 3 different protocols: Protocol 1 An asynchronous culture was given a long term (24 hr) exposure simultaneously to PGD2 + drug. Combinations with Bleomycin, ara-C or melphalan were additive or slightly antagonistic whereas PGD2 plus actinomycin D was significantly antagonistic. Protocol 2 Cells synchronized in G1 by 24 hr PGD2 exposure were then given a short-term (2 hr) treatment with PGD2 + drug. Combinations with cis-platin, Bleomycin, BCNU or 5-fluorouracil were additive or slightly antagonistic, whereas melphalan and actinomycin D combinations were significantly antagonistic. Protocol 3 Cells were released from a PGD2-induced G1 block and were exposed to drug at different times during cell progression. Actinomycin D was antagonistic when added immediately after release from the G1 block, but was significantly synergistic when added 10 to 12 hr later. The effect of the combinations cannot be explained by available cell cycle or biochemical information. The antagonism between PGD2 and several of the drugs resembles the “cytoprotective” effect of PGD2 towards various noxious agents.
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