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Folinic acid modulation of fluorouracil: tissue kinetics of bolus administration.

Abstract
Thymidylate synthase (TS) is the enzyme target of 5-fluorouracil (FUra) that recent laboratory and clinical studies with folinic acid (calcium leucovorin) suggest may mediate important antitumor cytotoxicity. Measurement in carcinoma tissue of parameters related to TS inhibition by 5-fluorodeoxyuridylate (FdUMP), by analogy to hormone receptor analysis, should be useful to determine which patients should receive fluoropyrimidine drug therapy and to evaluate folinic acid requirements. Folinic acid is metabolized to 5,10-methylenetetrahydropteroylglutamine (CH2FH4), which must be present in large excess to effect desired levels of maximal inhibition of TS, by promoting formation and stabilization of TS-FdUMP-CH2FH4 ternary complexes. In patients with metastatic disease, serial biopsies of tumor and normal tissues for studies of pharmacodynamic responses to test-dose FUra or folinic acid are shown to be easily added to routine intraoperative management. A suitable methodologic approach is described and examples given of assays of free TS, FdUMP, dUMP, and CH2FH4 levels after FUra or folinic acid, that may be useful in future studies aimed at improving the cost-effectiveness of FUra-folinic acid combinations.
AuthorsC P Spears, B G Gustavsson, R Frösing
JournalInvestigational new drugs (Invest New Drugs) Vol. 7 Issue 1 Pg. 27-36 (Apr 1989) ISSN: 0167-6997 [Print] United States
PMID2500406 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Fluorodeoxyuridylate
  • Thymidylate Synthase
  • Leucovorin
  • Fluorouracil
Topics
  • Aged
  • Biotransformation
  • Colonic Neoplasms (metabolism)
  • Cytosol (metabolism)
  • Drug Interactions
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyuridylate (metabolism)
  • Fluorouracil (administration & dosage, metabolism, pharmacokinetics)
  • Humans
  • Lacticaseibacillus casei (metabolism)
  • Leucovorin (pharmacology)
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Thymidylate Synthase (metabolism)

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