The tissue distribution and normal tissue toxicity of cisplatin (cDDP) administered as poly-lactide-co-glycolide (PLAGA) microspheres, developed for loco-regional administration of cDDP to the liver, were studied in Wag/Rij rats. Venoportal administration of this formulation resulted in a reduction in total systemic and renal toxicity, which correlated with a decrease in normal tissue exposure ...

Amomum tsao-ko (Zingiberaceae) is a well-known medicinal and aromatic crop with long history of cultivation in China. Food pharmaceutical industries widely use its dried ripe fruit. In this study, 12 promoter anchored amplified polymorphism (PAAP) primer pairs conserved DNA-derived (CDDP) primers were used to assess the genetic diversity population structure 96 A. accessions from eight cultivat...

Rationale: Cisplatin (CDDP) is a broad-spectrum anticancer drug but chemoresistance to CDDP impedes its wide use for cancer therapy. Autophagy is an event occurring in the cytoplasm and cytoplasmic LC3 puncta formation is a hallmark of autophagy. Graphene oxide (GO) is a nanomaterial that provokes autophagy in CT26 colon cancer cells and confers antitumor effects. Here we aimed to evaluate whet...

BACKGROUND Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a poor prognostic factor for patients with gastrointestinal, gynecologic, and pancreatic cancer. Cisplatin (CDDP) is among the most effective anti-cancer agents, although its adverse effects remain unresolved. For the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis with high-dose CDDP, it is necessary to design a new delivery system of CDDP that can decrease syste...

A spontaneously metastasizing solid tumor model derived by transplanting the TA3Ha murine mammary carcinoma into the s.c. tail tissue of mice was used to develop a treatment strategy for enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of cisplatin (CDDP). This strategy was based on the findings that diethyldithiocarbamate (DDTC) reduces the toxicity of CDDP, and that localized hyperthermia (HT) augments the...

We have investigated the effect of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (CDDP) on signal transduction pathways. CDDP treatment did not cause any change in the binding of 1H1phorbol dibutyrate to PC-9 (human lung adenocarcinoma cell line) cells, a measure of protein kinase C activation. However, 2-h CDDP treatment (20 gg/ml) caused 200% increase in 1,2-sn-diacylglycerol (DAG) production and 50% decr...