title: Pharmacologic studies with radiolabeled N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate (AD 32). Comparison of total anthracycline fluorescence and radioactivity in mouse serum and urine.
abstract: In connection with pharmacologic studies with AD 32, isotopically-labeled drug prepared from 1-[14C]-trifluoroacetic anhydride and adriamycin-14-valerate was used to determine murine serum and urine levels of radioactivity. Other studies, performed in parallel, measured serum and urinary total fluorescence. Serum fluorescence disappeared in a biphasic pattern, with an initial rapid rate of disappearance followed by a somewhat slower phase. For the first hour, serum radioactivity levels were not significantly different than those measured by fluorescence. After this, however, serum radioactivity decayed at a much slower rate than did fluorescence. Furthermore, a large fraction of the injected radioactivity was found excreted in the urine, whereas urine accounted for only a small fraction of the fluorescence. These results suggest the formation, in part, of a hitherto unrecognized nonfluorescent metabolite, most probably N-trifluoracetyldaunosamine.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism / Q000652:urine; D005453:Fluorescence; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008805:Mice, Inbred A
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; C016163:valrubicin; D004317:Doxorubicin