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Relationship between tumor cell density and drug concentration and the cytotoxic effects of doxorubicin or vincristine: mechanism of inoculum effects.

Abstract：

:When tumor cell density increases, the cytotoxic activity of certain anticancer agents, such as vincristine (VCR) and doxorubicin (DXR), progressively decreases. This phenomenon is termed the inoculum effect. Since VCR and DXR are less active in an acidic environment, we questioned whether the inoculum effects could have resulted from acidification of the medium that may have developed due to the high cell density. However, measurements of the cytotoxic activity of these agents in a pH-controlled medium revealed only a minor correction of the inoculum effects. Second, we wondered whether the inoculum effects that occurred at the high cell density might have been attributable to insufficient amounts of drugs to bind all the binding sites of the cells. To test this hypothesis, we used drug-resistant sublines, which required higher VCR or DXR concentrations for cell killing than did the parent cell line. When higher drug concentrations were used, the dose-response curves generated for low- and high-density cell populations became closer and overlapped each other, resulting in virtual disappearance of the inoculum effects. Measurements of cellular drug levels revealed that at a high cell density, cells accumulated much smaller amounts of both VCR and DXR in parallel with the positive inoculum effect. In contrast, when high concentrations of the drugs were used in drug-resistant cells, differences in the cellular drug contents between low and high cell densities became narrow. Cisplatin (DDP) belongs to a group of drugs that do not produce inoculum effects, and DDP's cytotoxic effects were not influenced by the pH-controlled medium or by the use of drug-resistant cell lines. These observations indicate that the inoculum effects are the result of the unavailability of VCR or DXR molecules to all cellular binding sites when cells at high densities are exposed to drugs. The drug concentration relative to cell density was apparently the major determinant for the inoculum effects seen in VCR- or DXR-induced cell killing.

journal_name

Cancer Chemother Pharmacol

journal_title

Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology

authors

Kobayashi H,Takemura Y,Ohnuma T

doi

10.1007/BF00695987

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pub_date

1992-01-01 00:00:00

pages

6-10

issue

eissn

0344-5704

issn

1432-0843

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Relationship between tumor cell density and drug concentration and the cytotoxic effects of doxorubicin or vincristine: mechanism of inoculum effects.