title: Quantitation of 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine 5'-triphosphate in the leukemic cells from bone marrow and peripheral blood of patients receiving 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine therapy.
abstract: A method for the detection and quantitation of 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine 5'-triphosphate (ara-CTP), the active metabolite cells and leukemic cells of the peripheral blood from patients receiving ara-C therapy is described. ara-CTP is separated from normal cellular nucleotides by high-pressure liquid chromatography and is quantitated by its absorbance of ultraviolet light at 280 nm with a lower limit of sensitivity of 25 pmol/2 x 10(7) cell equivalents. During separate courses of continuous infusion of different therapeutic doses of ara-C, ara-CTP accumulated in the leukemic bone marrow cells of a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia in proportion to the dose of ara-C. Continuous infusion of ara-C (90 mg/sq m/day) resulted in plateau levels of ara-CPT in peripheral blast cells after 24 hr (115 pmol/1 x 10(7) cell equivalents). A priming dose of ara-C(125 to 250 mg/sq m) followed by a 1-hr infusion of an equal dose of ara-C to patients with acute myelogenous leukemia facilitated the determination of ara-CTP retention in bone marrow and peripheral blood leukemic cells in vivo. This procedure should be useful for extended studies of the biochemical pharmacology of ara-CTP in vivo.
mesh_terms: D001085:Arabinofuranosylcytosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D001088:Arabinonucleotides / Q000378:metabolism*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000378:metabolism*; D003561:Cytarabine / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001088:Arabinonucleotides; D003561:Cytarabine; D001085:Arabinofuranosylcytosine Triphosphate