title: CCNU toxicity after an overdose in a patient with Hodgkin's disease. Effects on colony-forming cells (CFU-C) and colony-stimulating activity (CSA).
abstract: An overdose of CCNU (600 mg over a 15-d period) was unintentionally ingested by a patient with advanced Hodgkin's disease subjected to combination chemotherapy. A severe bone marrow depression occurred 3 weeks after the start of the CCNU treatment. The nadir of the platelet count was reached after 4 weeks and that of the granulocyte count after 5 weeks. At the nadir of the white blood cell count, colony-forming cells (CFU-C) were found in significantly reduced numbers in the bone marrow, and were not found at all in the peripheral blood; the amount of colony-stimulating activity (CSA) produced by peripheral blood cells was reduced. However, the cells producing CSA recovered earlier than the CFU-C, and the CSA peak value was reached about 1 week before the peak value for CFU-C in the bone marrow. Thus, in vivo CSA-producing cells appeared to be more resistant to CCNU than were CFU-C, and their recovery appeared to be a prerequisite for the recovery of CFU-C and myelopoietic cells.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D004285:Dogs; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000187:drug effects; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008130:Lomustine / Q000506:poisoning*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009000:Monocytes / Q000187:drug effects; D009607:Nitrosourea Compounds / Q000506:poisoning*; D010976:Platelet Count
chemical_list: D009607:Nitrosourea Compounds; D008130:Lomustine