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Fluorescence assay of tissue distribution of 4-demethoxydaunorubicin and 4-demethoxydoxorubicin in mice bearing solid tumors.

Abstract
The tissue distribution of 4-demethoxydaunorubicin and 4-demethoxydoxorubicin was studied in comparison with that of their patient compounds, daunorubicin and doxorubicin, in mice bearing transplanted tumors. The doses administered were equal or equitoxic to those of their parent compounds. The levels of total fluorescence due to initial drugs and metabolites were determined on tissue extracts by fluorometry. After administration of equal doses of daunorubicin and 4-demethoxydaunorubicin, the calculated Cxt values of 4-demethoxydaunorubicin equivalents were higher than those for daunorubicin in all the organs tested except the heart. In animals treated with equitoxic doses, lower 4-demethoxydaunorubicin levels were found in all the organs tested. In mice treated with equitoxic doses of doxorubicin and 4-demethoxydoxorubicin, 4-demethoxydoxorubicin reached higher drug concentrations than doxorubicin in spleen and liver, whereas in all the other organs tested lower drug levels were found. The rate of drug disappearance from organs was slower in animals treated with 4-demethoxyderivatives than in those treated with their parent drugs.
AuthorsF Formelli, A M Casazza, A Di Marco, A Mariani, C Pollini
JournalCancer chemotherapy and pharmacology (Cancer Chemother Pharmacol) Vol. 3 Issue 4 Pg. 261-9 ( 1979) ISSN: 0344-5704 [Print] Germany
PMID294954 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • 4-demethoxydoxorubicin
  • Doxorubicin
  • Idarubicin
  • Daunorubicin
Topics
  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents (blood, metabolism)
  • Biotransformation
  • Daunorubicin (analogs & derivatives, blood, metabolism)
  • Doxorubicin (analogs & derivatives, blood, metabolism)
  • Female
  • Idarubicin
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred Strains
  • Neoplasms, Experimental (metabolism)
  • Time Factors
  • Tissue Distribution

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