Tumor Trapping of 5-Fluorouracil: In vivo19F NMR Spectroscopic Pharmacokinetics in Tumor-Bearing Humans and Rabbits

The pharmacokinetics of 5-fluorouracil (5FU) were studied in vivo in patients with discrete tumors and in rabbits bearing VX2 tumors by using19F NMR spectroscopy. The human studies were conducted in a 1.5-T Magnetom magnetic resonance imager (Siemens), and the rabbit studies were conducted in a 4.7-...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 1990-01, Vol.87 (1), p.492-496
Main Authors: Wolf, Walter, Presant, Cary A., Servis, Kenneth L., El-Tahtawy, Ahmed, Albright, Michael J., Barker, Peter B., Ring, Robert, Atkinson, Dennis, Ong, Richard, KIng, Mark, Singh, Manbir, Ray, Margaret, Wiseman, Charles, Blayney, Douglas, Shani, Jashovam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antineoplastics
Blood
Chemotherapy
Half lives
Liver
Medication administration
Metabolism
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Pharmacokinetics
Tumors
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Summary:The pharmacokinetics of 5-fluorouracil (5FU) were studied in vivo in patients with discrete tumors and in rabbits bearing VX2 tumors by using19F NMR spectroscopy. The human studies were conducted in a 1.5-T Magnetom magnetic resonance imager (Siemens), and the rabbit studies were conducted in a 4.7-T GE/Nicolet 33-cm bore magnet. Free 5FU was detected in the tumors of four of the six patients and in all VX2 tumors but not in normal rabbit tissues. No other metabolites were seen in these tumors, contrary to the extensive catabolism we had previously documented using19F NMR spectroscopy in both human and animal livers. The tumor pool of free 5FU in those human tumors that trapped 5FU was determined to have a half-life of 0.4-2.1 hr, much longer than expected and significantly longer than the half-life of 5FU in blood (5-15 min), whereas the half-life of trapped 5FU in the VX2 tumors ranged from 1.05 to 1.22 hr. In this initial experience, patient response to chemotherapy may correlate with extent of trapping free 5FU in the human tumors. These studies document that NMR spectroscopy is clinically feasible in vivo, allows noninvasive pharmacokinetic analyses at a drug-target tussiu in real time, and may produce therapeutically important information at the time of drug administration. Demonstration of the trapping of 5FU in tumors provides both a model for studying metabolic modulation in experimental tumors (in animals) and a method for testing modulation strategies clinically (in patients).
ISSN:0027-8424