The effect of vincristine sulphate on the axoplasmic flow of labelled proteins in neurites of chick embryo sympathetic neurons growing in tissue culture was studied by autoradiography. In control neurons most of the H-proteins synthesized during a 90-min pulse with a H-amino acid were localized in cell bodies. There was a diminishing gradient of labelled proteins in the neurites which was highe...

Neuropathic pain accompanies peripheral nerve injury after a wide variety of insults including metabolic disorders, traumatic nerve injury, and neurotoxic drugs. Chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain, caused by drugs such as vincristine and taxol, occurs in cancer patients who receive these drugs as antineoplastic agents. Although a variety of remediations have been attempted, the absence of kn...

BACKGROUND Combination therapy is a key strategy for minimizing drug resistance, a common problem in cancer therapy. The microtubule-depolymerizing agent vincristine is widely used in the treatment of acute leukemia. In order to decrease toxicity and chemoresistance of vincristine, this study will investigate the effects of combination vincristine and vorinostat (suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid...

The development of drug resistance by tumor cells is a major obstacle to the cure of human malignancy. Cyclosporin A (CsA) completely reverses primary resistance to vincristine and cross resistance to daunorubicin in a pleiotropic drug-resistant subline of human T cell acute lymphatic leukemia. This subline is over 50-fold resistant to vincristine and fivefold resistant to daunorubicin. CsA has...

After complete remission had been induced by prednisone and vincristine in children with acute leukemia, hydroxyurea was used in an effort to maintain remission. No significant prolonga tion of remission occurred despite the appearance of toxicity in over 50% of the high dosage group. An equally significant ob servation was that the duration of remission produced by predni sone and vincristine ...

Les traitements classiques de myelome multiple et les schemas differents proposes ont ete mis en revue.  La poly chimiotherapie de la maladie avec une com-binaison de cyclophosphamide, B.C.N.U. Alkeran, Perdnisone et Vincristine a donnee une meilleur Resultat ceci surtout dans les formes graves et rapidement progressive de la maladie. D'autres sehemas therapeutiques sont en cours. 

A 5 year old boy developed severe weakness after receiving vincristine for treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Although weakness improved after the discontinuation of vincristine, other symptoms suggestive of a neuropathy persisted. Neurophysiological and genetic analysis at age 8 years indicated that vincristine had induced symptoms of a hereditary sensory motor neuropathy type 1A, whi...

The anti-tumor efficacy of liposomal formulations of cell cycle dependent anticancer drugs is critically dependent on the rates at which the drugs are released from the liposomes. Previous work on liposomal formulations of vincristine have shown increasing efficacy for formulations with progressively slower release rates. Recent work has also shown that liposomal formulations of vincristine wit...