title: Antitumor organometallics. I. Activity of some diphenyltin(IV) and diphenylantimony(III) derivatives on in vitro and in vivo Ehrlich ascites tumor.
abstract: Diphenyltin(IV) and diphenylantimony(III) derivatives of dithiophosphorus ligands, i.e. Ph2Sn(S2PPh2)2 (1), Ph2Sn[S2P(OPr)2]2 (2), Ph2SbS2PPh2 (3) and Ph2SbS2P(OPri)2 (4), have been tested in vitro and in vivo against Ehrlich ascites tumor. All four compounds were almost equally effective in vitro, exhibiting inhibitory effects on cell proliferation, viability and protein synthesis, and exacerbated respiration and Ca-ATPase activity. In mice bearing Ehrlich ascites tumor cells, all four compounds inhibited the tumor growth, the organometallic phosphorodithioates being more active than phosphinodithioate analogues, and the organoantimony derivatives more active than organotins. Compound 4 (5 mg/kg/day, i.p., on days 1,3 and 5) produced an increase in life span of 83% and a cure rate of 30% in mice bearing this tumor.
authors.affiliation: Oncology Institute of Cluj-Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bara
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Socaciu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Silvestru
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Haiduc
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism; D002286:Carcinoma, Ehrlich Tumor / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009946:Organothiophosphorus Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009947:Organotin Compounds / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D009946:Organothiophosphorus Compounds; D009947:Organotin Compounds; C071923:diisopropylphosphorodithioato diphenyltin; C071922:diphenylphosphoinodithioato diphenytin; C064871:diphenylantimony diphenyldithiophosphinate; C064870:diphenylantimony diisopropyldithiophosphate; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases