Hypoxia enhances the lethality of mitomycin C and carboquone against human malignant tumor cells in vitro

European Surgical Research. Europäische Chirurgische Forschung. Recherches Chirurgicales Européennes
T KusumotoK Sugimachi

Abstract

Solid tumors contain hypoxic cells which are relatively resistant to antineoplastic activity of radiation or to chemotherapeutic agents. We determined the increase in antineoplastic activities of mitomycin C (MMC) and carboquone (CQ) against human tumor cells under conditions of in vitro hypoxia, with the following results. (a) The HeLa cells had been exposed to various concentrations of MMC or CQ for 2 h under normally aerated (about 20%) or hypoxic conditions (5.0 and 0%) and were maintained under normally aerated conditions for 3 days. The succinate dehydrogenase activity was assayed, using the succinate dehydrogenase inhibition (SDI) test. Treatment with MMC or CQ reduced the SD activity, compared to findings in the control cells, under hypoxic conditions. (b) The cells were exposed to the drug, MMC or CQ, under normally aerated or anoxic conditions, for 15-45 min and the colonies counted on day 14. Treatment with 0.45 microM of MMC for 45 min inhibited the clonogenicity of HeLa cells by 25.4% of findings in the control cells under anoxia. Treatment with 0.03 microM of CQ for 30 min inhibited the clonogenicity by 41.5%. (c) The sensitivity of 14 human tumor tissues (6 gastric and 8 colorectal cancers) to MMC or CQ under hyp...Continue Reading

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Sep 8, 2015·Journal of Controlled Release : Official Journal of the Controlled Release Society·Ahmed M Al-AbdVladimir P Torchilin

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