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Since cytotoxic drugs were first developed, their damaging effects on bone marrow have attracted considerable interest. We now know that the bone marrow is an organ with rapid cell renewal in which maintenance of the steady-state depends on a high rate of cell production, and that the bone marrow toxicity of cytotoxic agents can be explained by the perturbation of such steady-state conditions. Experimental researchers have analysed in detail the effects of cytotoxic agents upon defined hematopoietic cell populations to define the mechanism of action and the location within the cell cycle at which cytotoxic drugs exert their cytocidal action. From such studies, a classification of cytotoxic agents according to their action upon cells during different phases of the cell cycle has been proposed [80-82]. Others have used the acute perturbation of the hematopoietic systems, caused by application of single high doses of cytotoxic agents, to analyse the patterns of depletion and reconstitution of the various hematopoietic compartments in an effort to shed light on the regulatory mechanisms that are responsible for the delicately balanced cell production of the hematopoietic cell renewal systems. A great deal of information on the structure of the hematopoietic systems has come from such studies, and kinetic parameters of these systems have been defined. To clinicians, the hematopoietic toxicity of antineoplastic agents has been an undesired though unavoidable side effect of almost all cytotoxic drugs introduced into clinical practice.
Contents:
1 Introduction.- 2 Structure and Physiology of the Granulopoietic System.- 3 Some Methods Used to Study the Granulopoietic System.- 3.1 Pluripotent Stem Cell Assay (CFU-S Assay).- 3.2 Stem Cells Committed to Granulopoiesis (Granulopoietic Prognitor Cells) (CFU-C).- 3.3 Agar-Diffusion-Chamber Progenitor Cells.- 3.4 Sensitivity Studies.- 3.5 Recovery Studies.- 3.6 Proliferative Activity of Stem Cells.- 3.7 "Rapidly Proliferating" Stem Cells.- 3.8 Functional Bone Marrow Granulocyte Reserve.- 3.9 Bone Marrow Cellularity.- 4 Effect of Individual Cytotoxic Agents Upon the Granulopoietic System.- 4.1 Nitrogen Mustards.- 4.2 Chlorambucil.- 4.3 Aminochlorambucil.- 4.4 Cyclophosphamide.- 4.5 Melphalan (L-Phenylalanine Mustard).- 4.6 Busulfan.- 4.7 Dimethyl Myleran (DMM).- 4.8 Methotrexate (MTX).- 4.9 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU).- 4.10 Cytosine Arabinoside (Ara-C).- 4.11 6-Mercaptopurine (6-MP).- 4.12 6-Thioguanine(6-TG).- 4.13 Vinblastine (VLB).- 4.14 Vincristine (VCR).- 4.15 Actinomycin D (Act-D).- 4.16 Anthracyclines.- 4.17 Bleomycin.- 4.18 Hydroxyurea (HU).- 4.19 DTIC (5-[3,3-dimethyl-l-triazeno]-imidazole-4-carboxamide).- 4.20 Nitrosoureas.- 4.21 cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum(DDP).- 5 Granulopoietic Toxicity of Cytotoxic Agents: Pathogenesis, Pathophysiology, Methods of Modulation, and Clinical Aspects.- 5.1 General Discussion of Cytotoxic Drug Effects on the Granulopoietic System.- 5.2 Modulation of the Granulopoietic Toxicity of Cytotoxic Agents by Bacterial Products or "Immunostimulants".- 5.3 Effect of Lithium Upon the Granulopoietic System.- 5.4 Prediction of Hematopoietic Toxicity of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy in Humans.- 5.5 Problem of Irreversible Bone Marrow Damage After Cytotoxic Drug Exposure.- 6 References.- 7 Subject Index.
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Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Publication date: December, 2011
Pages: 236
Weight: 415g
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Subcategories: Oncology
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