title: Effect of various oxygenation conditions and fluosol-DA on cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
abstract: Adding Fluosol-DA and carbogen breathing to treatment with various anticancer drugs can result in a significant enhancement of tumor growth delay compared to the drug and air breathing. The optimal conditions for tumor response depend upon the drug, oxygenation level and duration, and perfluorochemical emulsion dosage. In this study, representative chemotherapeutic agents from several classes were tested in a tumor growth delay assay in combination with various doses of Fluosol-DA under conditions of normal aeration, carbogen breathing either for 1-2 hours or 6 hours, or with hyperbaric 100% oxygen (3 atmospheres) breathing for 1 hour to determine whether the antitumor activity of these drugs would be improved.
authors: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115.
authors: B A
authors: BA
authors: Teicher
authors: N L
authors: NL
authors: McIntosh-Lowe
authors: C M
authors: CM
authors: Rose
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001761:Bleomycin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004338:Drug Combinations / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy; D005466:Fluorocarbons / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D006895:Hydroxyethyl Starch Derivatives; D008297:Male; D008558:Melphalan / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008727:Methotrexate / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008819:Mice, Nude; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009944:Organoplatinum Compounds / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010100:Oxygen / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D004338:Drug Combinations; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D006895:Hydroxyethyl Starch Derivatives; D009944:Organoplatinum Compounds; D001761:Bleomycin; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; C055423:didimethylsulfoxide dichloroplatinum(II); C017323:glucose, glycerol, hydroxyethyl starch, perfluorodecalin, perfluorotripropylamine, pluronic F-68, salts, yolk phospholipids drug combination; D004317:Doxorubicin; C011700:carbogen; D003520:Cyclophosphamide; D008558:Melphalan; D010100:Oxygen; D005472:Fluorouracil; D008727:Methotrexate