In vitro cellular characteristics and survival responses of human astrocytoma clones to chloroethyl-nitrosoureas and dianhydrogalactitol |
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Authors: | Norma H Rubin Cacilda Casartelli B Gail Macik W R Boerwinkle Dr S C Barranco |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Radiation Therapy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Rm. 551 Basic Science Bldg, 77550, Galveston, TX, U.S.A. 3. Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil 2. Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, 77550, Galveston, TX, U.S.A.
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Abstract: | Three permanent clones were derived from a single astrocytoma cell line and were characterized for in vitro cell kinetics, chromosomal properties and for their responses to the anticancer drugs: 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU); 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-(4-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea (MeCCNU); 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-(2,6-dioxo-3-piperidyl-1-nitrosourea) (PCNU); and 1,2:5,6-dianhydrogalactitol (GAL); all of which have been shown to cross the blood brain barrier. The clones showed different population doubling times, saturation densities, plating efficiencies, chromosome counts, ploidy, cell cycle phase distributions and DNA indices. The only positive correlation among these parameters was between the population doubling times and the modal chromosome numbers; the lower the chromosome number, the shorter the doubling time. No correlation was observable between any of the cellular properties and responses to the four drugs. The clones showed a differential sensitivity to the nitrosoureas, seen maximally as a 600-fold difference in survival between two of the clones treated with the same dose of BCNU. In contrast, the clones exhibited almost identical and uniform sensitivities to galactitol, suggesting that this agent exerted its cytotoxic effects by similar mechanisms in each of the clones. By comparison BCNU (at the tested doses and duration of drug exposure used in this study) was found to be the most effective of the agents tested. |
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