PURPOSE Pharmacologic modulation of wound healing after glaucoma filtering surgery remains a major clinical challenge in ophthalmology. Poly(ortho ester) (POE) is a bioerodible and biocompatible viscous polymer potentially useful as a sustained drug delivery system that allows the frequency of intraocular injections to be reduced. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of POE c...

BACKGROUND Hepatic intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) or fluorodeoxyuridine (FUDR) has been a treatment option for liver metastasis from colorectal cancer. However, an optimal administration schedule of 5-FU is still controversial. This study was conducted to evaluate a suitable schedule from the viewpoint of 5-FU metabolites and related enzymes. METHODS 5-FU was in...

We studied patterns of DNA damage signaling and cell cycle response to clinically-relevant (bolus) and high doses of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in three colorectal cancer cell lines with differing MMR and TP53 status in an attempt to better understand how 5-FU exerts its cytotoxicity. The ATM/CHEK2/ CHEK1 signaling pathway was not activated in response to bolus 5-FU in the MMR-deficient cell lines H...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study is to investigate the regulation of p53 expression in response to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in human colon cancer cells. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Human colon cancer RKO cells were used as our model system. The levels of p53 expression and p53 protein stability in response to 5-FU and doxorubicin were investigated. In addition, the acetylation and phosphorylation status...

BACKGROUND Actinic keratoses (AKs) are common and may progress to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). While cryotherapy is the most commonly used treatment for AKs, it is only suitable for treating a few lesions at a time. Topical medications such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) allow for more generalized treatment of AKs in the setting of multiple lesions. OBJECTIVE To evaluate and discuss clinical tria...

inflammatory leukoencephalopathy and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency Article abstract—Multifocal inflammatory leukoencephalopathy (MIL) is a cerebral demyelinating syndrome that develops after chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and levamisole. The authors report a patient who developed MIL after 5-FU administration not in association with levamisole. She was subsequently diagnos...

Gene expression was analyzed in five pairs of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) resistant and parental cancer cell lines on DNA microarrays. In unsupervised analysis, a prediction rule was built from the expression profiles of 29 genes, and 5-FU sensitivity class was predicted with 100% accuracy and high predictive strength. In supervised analysis of key 5-FU pathways, expression of 91 genes was associated...

AIM To clarify the roles of TWEAK and its receptor Fn14 in 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-induced diarrhea. METHODS Diarrhea was induced in wild-type (WT), Fn14 knockout (KO), and IL-13 receptor (IL-13R)α1 KO BALB/c mice using a single injection of 5-FU. Histological analysis, cytokine analysis, and flow cytometry was performed on ileal tissues and cells. Murine colon carcinoma-bearing mice were co-tr...

BACKGROUND This randomised study compared protracted venous infusion (PVI) fluorouracil (5-FU) with PVI 5-FU plus mitomycin C (MMC) in patients with advanced oesophago-gastric cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred and fifty-four patients with adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma or undifferentiated carcinoma involving the oesophagus, oesophago-gastric junction or the stomach were random...

Fluorouracil (5-FU) is the most commonly used chemotherapeutic agent for gastric cancer (GC). However, the occurrence of resistance to 5-FU treatment poses a major problem for its clinical efficacy. In this study, we found that the NFκB-signaling pathway can mediate 5-FU resistance in GC cells. We developed a 5-FU-resistant GC cell line named SGCR/5-FU and found that the 5-FU-induced resistance...