title: Antitumor activity of thaliblastine (NSC-68075) in experimental ovarian tumor cell lines sensitive and resistant to cisplatin.
abstract: Cytotoxicity of thaliblastine (thalicarpine, TBL; NSC-68075) and/or cisplatin (DDP) in DDP-sensitive (O-342) and-resistant (O-342/DDP) rat ovarian tumor cell lines was comparatively determined using the MTT assay. The 50% inhibitory dose (ID50) of DDP was found to be 6.2 microM in O-342 cells and 23.4 microM in O-342/DDP cells, while, vice versa, the ID50 of TBL was 39.3 micrograms/ml in the sensitive line and 27.3 micrograms/ml in the resistant line. Furthermore, simultaneous exposure of cells to DDP and TBL showed a significant superiority over DDP alone in O-342 cells, as evaluated with variance analysis (P less than 0.001). This enhancing effect of TBL on DDP cytotoxicity, however, was not observed in the resistant cells.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Toxicology and Chemotherapy, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, F.R.G.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Todorov
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Zeller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001060:Aporphines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004351:Drug Resistance; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D005260:Female; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D051381:Rats; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D001060:Aporphines; D002945:Cisplatin