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[Platinum compounds in cancer therapy--past, present, and future].

Platinum cytotoxics play an important role globally in the management of solid tumours. Cisplatin sets the standard for efficacy in both regions with careful administration to reduce nephrotoxicity. Carboplatin is associated with neurotoxicity, but has become the leading product in the US due largely to the easier to manage toxicity profile. Both agents have been widely used in both registered and non registered indications and are frequently combined with other cytotoxics. In Japan, cisplatin has been used successfully at low doses in combination with 5-FU based regimens and appears to achieve a synergistic effect, but controlled data are not yet available. More recently oxaliplatin (Europe) and nedaplatin (in Japan) have been introduced, but their clinical roles in therapy have yet to be established. One of the limiting features of the first generation of platinum compounds is that a significant proportion of tumours develop cross resistance to platins due to either changes in uptake or excretion, intracellular detoxification or accelerated DNA repair. The forum discussed the possibility for the development of better new platinum compounds, A new platin agent which had lower toxicity and higher efficacy across a wide range of cancers without the development of resistance would be a significant step forward. If the tolerability profile was suitable, an oral formulation may improve the quality of life for patients but this must not be at the expense of efficacy. Even after the introduction of new target based drugs, platinum cytotoxics are likely to be used to reduce the tumour mass and in some cases can be expected to potentiate the effects of the new agents. In preclinical studies, ZD0473 has been shown to by-pass some major mechanisms of resistance and has the potential to achieve these objectives and is now being evaluated in clinical studies in both Japan and the West.

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols↗

Resveratrol reduces oxidative stress induced by platinum compounds in blood platelets.

The effects of resveratrol (trans-3,4',5-trihydroxystilbene) on the oxidative stress in blood platelets induced by platinum compounds [cisplatin and selenium-cisplatin conjugate] were studied in vitro. The production of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), the level of conjugate diene, the generation of superoxide anion radicals (O2-*) and other reactive oxygen species (O2-*, H2O2, singlet oxygen and organic radicals) were measured by chemiluminescence in blood platelets treated with platinum compounds. Cisplatin at the concentration of 10 microg/ml, as well as selenium-cisplatin conjugate (10 microg/ml) induced oxidative stress in blood platelets: an increase in TBARS, conjugate diene, chemiluminescence and generation of O2-*. In the presence of resveratrol (a natural compound with antioxidant activity) at the concentrations of 1-25 microg/ml, the chemiluminescence, the levels of O2-*, conjugate diene and TBARS were reduced (p < 0.05). We showed that resveratrol at different concentrations (1-25 microg/ml) had a protective effect against oxidative stress in platelets caused by platinum compounds (10 microg/ml) and it diminished platelet lipid peroxidation and reactive oxygen species generation induced by platinum compounds.

Animals↗

Regulation of platinum-compound cytotoxicity by the c-Jun N-terminal kinase and c-Jun signaling pathway in small-cell lung cancer cells.

Cytotoxic platinum compounds including cisplatin are standard cancer chemotherapeutics and are also activators of stress-signaling pathways. In this study, we tested the role of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) family of mitogen-activated protein kinases and their transcription factor target, c-Jun, in the cytotoxic response of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) cells to cisplatin and its less effective trans-isomer, transplatin. Both agents stimulated JNK activity; the transplatin response was rapid and transient, whereas JNK activation by cisplatin was delayed and sustained. Despite the differential kinetics of JNK activation, expression of nonphosphorylatable JNK mutants sensitized the SCLC cells to killing by cisplatin or transplatin, suggesting that JNK activation in response to these agents signals a protective response. Consistent with this finding, overexpression of the JNK target, c-Jun, significantly protected SCLC cells from platinum compounds, whereas expression of a c-Jun mutant encoding only the DNA binding domain increased the sensitivity of the SCLC cells to these drugs. These findings support the hypothesis that activation of the JNKs by platinum compounds controls c-Jun-dependent transcriptional events that promote a protective response in SCLC cells. Oligonucleotide array analysis identified genes encoding a variety of signaling proteins whose expression was reciprocally changed by c-Jun and c-Jun-DBD (c-Jun-DNA binding domain). It is noteworthy that genes whose products are involved in DNA repair, glutathione synthesis, or drug accumulation did not exhibit altered expression by c-Jun or c-Jun-DBD. The findings indicate that inhibition of the JNK pathway is a potential means to enhance the sensitivity of SCLC cells to platinum compounds.

Carcinoma, Small Cell↗

Recent updates in the clinical use of platinum compounds for the treatment of lung, breast, and genitourinary tumors and myeloma.

Platinum compounds have shown activity in a broad spectrum of human tumors in vitro and in vivo. The clinical utility of platinum agents in gynecologic and gastrointestinal cancers (particularly oxaliplatin in colorectal cancer) has been well documented and platinum agents continue to be evaluated in a variety of other cancers. Given preclinical evidence of synergy among some platinum compounds and new anticancer agents, clinical trials exploring platinum-based combination therapies may yield improved treatment for a variety of malignancies. Recent clinical data on new chemotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of lung, breast, and genitourinary cancers and myeloma will be presented in this review.

Antineoplastic Agents↗

The integration of paclitaxel and new platinum compounds in the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer.

There has been a steady improvement in the survival of patients with advanced ovarian cancer. This has been the result of a more skilled surgical approach to these patients and the development of more effective chemotherapy with a better integration of both modalities in first-line treatment. The current optimal chemotherapeutic approach consists of a platinum compound together with paclitaxel. This recommendation is based upon level I evidence of two large randomized trials which established that the combination of paclitaxel-cisplatin was superior to cyclophosphamide-cisplatin. The long-term follow-up of one of these studies continues to show a significant difference in survival at 5 years. Neurotoxicity has been problematic with these regimens, in particular when paclitaxel was given with the higher dosed shorter infusion schedule, as was done in the European-Canadian Intergroup study. Several approaches to reduce this toxicity have been studied. Among these are the use of different paclitaxel infusion schedules, and the application of less neurotoxic platinum compounds. Weekly paclitaxel has a different toxicity profile than the higher dosed three-weekly schedules, with less neutropenia, alopecia, arthralgia and neurotoxicity. Four platinum compounds are currently marketed: cisplatin, carboplatin, oxaliplatin, and nedaplatin. Of these only cisplatin, carboplatin, and nedaplatin have been approved for the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer (nedaplatin only in Japan). The equivalence of carboplatin and cisplatin has been suggested from trials without a taxoid. Three randomized studies of paclitaxel-carboplatin vs. paclitaxel-cisplatin concluded that paclitaxel-carboplatin is the preferred regimen in terms of (less) toxicity and, where studied, in terms of quality of life. So far, no difference in response rates or progression-free survival has been shown. More mature data on overall survival are awaited. Oxaliplatin (a diaminocyclohexane platinum compound) is of interest because it is only partially cross-resistant with cis- or carboplatin and devoid of severe bone marrow suppression, nephrotoxicity, or ototoxicity. Its dose-limiting toxicity is an unusual form of sensory neuropathy, which is cumulative and, contrary to cisplatin's neurotoxicity, generally reversible. Combinations with other active standard agents, as well as platinum compounds and/or taxoids, are feasible and have shown interesting activity. Similar to carboplatin and oxaliplatin, nedaplatin (cis-diammineglycolatoplatinum) can be given without hydration; its dose-limiting toxicity is myelosuppression, in particular thrombocytopenia. Although activity has been shown, no data from randomized comparative trials are available to allow a judgement on its potential advantages.

Antineoplastic Agents↗

Interleukin-1beta expression in murine J774A.1 macrophages exposed to platinum compounds: the role of p38 and ERK 1/2 mitogen-activated protein kinases.

Although skin and respiratory sensitizing properties of platinum compounds have been proved in humans and mice, little is known about signal transduction pathways leading to cytokine production in the induction phase. It is generally assumed that induction of skin sensitization, but not skin irritation, is associated with a rapid increase in the IL-1beta mRNA expression. In this study, IL-1beta expression and a role of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in this process were investigated in murine macrophages J774A.1 exposed to four platinum compounds. Potassium tetrachloroplatinate (K(2)PtCl(4); TCPP), ammonium tetrachloroplatinate ((NH(4))(2)PtCl(4); TCPA), ammonium hexachloroplatinate ((NH(4))(2)PtCl(6); HCPA) showed a very similar range of cytotoxic concentrations (IC(50) values: 238 microM+/-30; 269 microM+/-39 and 245 microM+/-31, respectively) as assessed in the 24-h MTT reduction test. Cytotoxicity of cis-diammineplatinum dichloride (cisplatin) was considerably higher (IC(50) of 23 microM+/-4). While increased expression of IL-1beta mRNA was observed in the macrophages exposed to each test compound, IL-1beta protein production was detected in cell lysates after treatment with TCPP, TCPA and HCPA for 24h (concentration range of 150-350 microM) as well as for 2h (450-650 microM). The treatment with each compound resulted in the phosphorylation of both p38 MAPK and ERK 1/2 (p44/42). Blocking the activation of p38 MAPK as well as ERK 1/2 with specific inhibitors (SB203580 and U0126, respectively) down-regulated the IL-1beta expression. Interestingly, the skin irritant sodium dodecyl sulfate did not trigger phosphorylation of these kinases, nor induced IL-1beta production. These data suggest that p38 MAPK and ERK 1/2 play an important role in induction of IL-1beta expression in J774A.1 macrophages exposed to test platinum compounds.

Animals↗

Recent updates in the clinical use of platinum compounds for the treatment of gynecologic cancers.

Platinum compounds have long played a role in the treatment of gynecologic cancers. Single-agent cisplatin and carboplatin have shown activity in endometrial cancer, and more recent studies have begun to investigate a variety of new platinum-based combinations. In cervical cancer, chemotherapy is used primarily to treat advanced or recurrent disease. Agents with proven single-agent activity in this setting include cisplatin, ifosfamide, and doxorubicin, and a number of cisplatin-based combination therapies are under clinical investigation. A variety of cisplatin-based combinations have also been used in ovarian cancer chemotherapy, with more recent studies investigating the substitution of carboplatin or oxaliplatin for cisplatin and the addition of paclitaxel. This review will examine recent clinical data on the use of platinum-based chemotherapies for the treatment of these gynecologic cancers.

Antineoplastic Agents↗

Predicting chemotherapeutic response to small-cell lung cancer of platinum compounds by thallium-201 single-photon emission computerized tomography.

Thallium-201 single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) was used to clarify the relationship between 201Tl uptake and the response in chemotherapy to platinum compounds in 21 patients with small-cell lung cancer. 201Tl-SPECT scans were obtained twice: at 15 min (early scan) and 120 min (delayed scan) after an intravenous injection of 111 MBq (3 mCi) of thallium-201 chloride. We obtained the uptake ratio from each scan and calculated the retention index:uptake ratio = region of interest uptake/contralateral normal lung uptake; retention index = (delayed ratio - early ratio)/early ratio. After 201Tl scintigraphy, 12 patients received chemotherapy consisting of platinum compounds and nine were treated with chemoradiation. Among patients receiving only chemotherapy, the retention index correlated with the responses to chemotherapy. In an in vitro study, ouabain, an inhibitor of the Na,K-ATPase pump, reduced sensitivity to cisplatin and inhibited intracellular thallium uptake in the small-cell lung cancer cell line. These studies suggest that 201Tl-SPECT is a useful indicator of response to chemotherapy with platinum compounds in small-cell lung cancer, and that Na,K-ATPase is commonly involved in transporting both thallium and platinum compounds into cancer cells.

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[Comparative study of the action of antineoplastic platinum compounds with varying nephrotoxic effects].

Studying the action of the two antitumour platinum compounds--cisplatin capable of exerting a nephrotoxic action and cycloplatam which has no damaging effect on the kidney, it was found that 3 h after the administration of cycloplatam the content of platinum in the kidney was 2 times lower than in the cfse of cisplatin. Due to different dynamics of the excretion of platinum compounds from the kidney 5 lays after their addition the content of platinum in the kidney was the same in both cases. The content of platinum in the nuclei, mitochondria and supernatant with respect to a total content in the kidney cortex was almost equal for both compounds. Inhibition of nephrotoxic effect of cisplatin after the animals were pretreated with choline chloride or paraaminohippurate is not connected with a decrease of platinum in the kidney either 3 h, or 5 days after the injection of these preparations. The mechanisms of nephrotoxic action of cisplatin and its prevention are discussed.

Animals↗

Nephrotoxicity of a new platinum compound, 254-S, evaluated with rat kidney cortical slices.

The addition of a new compound containing platinum, 254-S, an antineoplastic agent, to medium had no effect on p-aminohippurate (PAH) accumulation, gluconeogenesis, or potassium and ATP concentrations in rat kidney cortical slices at the concentrations tested, up to 10 mM. At 1 mM, cisplatin, used for comparison, significantly decreased all of these biochemical indices in the slices. Administration of 254-S at a low dose (10 mg/kg i.v.) to rats decreased the ability of the slices to accumulate PAH and to maintain the potassium concentration, without affecting levels of urea or creatinine in blood plasma. 254-S at a high dose (20 mg/kg i.v.) or cisplatin at 5 mg/kg (i.v.) also decreased these indices in the slices, and affected urea and creatinine in blood plasma. These results suggested that use of the renal slice technique gives data useful for the evaluation of the nephrotoxicity of 254-S, and that PAH accumulation and the potassium concentration in slices from rats treated with 254-S are indicators of nephrotoxic damage.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

A new family of luminescent compounds: platinum(II) imidoylamidinates exhibiting pH-dependent room temperature luminescence.

The imidoylamidinate platinum(II) compounds [Pt{NH=C(R)NC(Ph)NPh}2] (R = CH2Ph 2, p-ClC6H43, Ph 4) were prepared by the reaction of the appropriate trans-[PtCl2(RCN)2] with 4 equiv of the amidine PhC(NH)NHPh giving 2-4 and 2 equivs of the salt PhC(=NH)NHPh.HCl. We also synthesized, by the double alkylation of 4 with MeOSO2CF3, complex [Pt{NH=C(Ph)N(Me)C(Ph)=NPh}2][CF3SO3]2 (5) which models the bis-protonated form of 4. The complexes were characterized by 1H, 13C NMR, and IR spectroscopies, FAB-MS and by C, H, N elemental analysis. The X-ray crystallography of 4.2CH2Cl2 enables the confirmation of the square planar coordination geometry of the metal center with almost planar imidoylamidine ligands, while in 5.2CHCl3 the planarity of the metallacycles is lost and and the central N atom is sp3-hybridized. The imidoylamidinate complexes represent a new family of Pt(II)-based luminescent complexes and they are emissive at room temperature both in solution and in the solid state, with an emission quantum yield ranging from 3.7 x 10(-4) to 6.2 x 10(-2) in methanol solution; the emission intensity is pH-dependent, being quenched at low pH. UV-visible and luminescence spectroscopies indicate that the lowest excited state of these compounds is 3MLCT or 3IL with significant MLCT character, with emission lifetimes of a few micros. A blue shift of both the absorption and emission with increasing solvent polarity and with decreasing pi-electron withdrawing properties of the ligand substituent was observed.

Journal Article↗

Neurotoxicity of platinum compounds: comparison of the effects of cisplatin and oxaliplatin on the human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y.

The main dose-limiting side effect of cancer treatment with platinum compounds is peripheral neurotoxicity. To investigate the intracellular mechanisms of platinum drugs neurotoxicity we have studied the effects of cisplatin and oxaliplatin on the human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y. Both platinum compounds are toxic causing cellular death by inducing apoptosis but oxaliplatin is less neurotoxic than cisplatin. The study of the proteins involved in the intracellular transduction pathways that may cause apoptotic death, revealed a very similar pattern of changes after exposure to cisplatin or oxaliplatin. In particular, as demonstrated by densitometric analysis, after exposure to both platinum compounds the total amount of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 was significantly reduced. Conversely, the amount of the pro-apoptotic protein p53 significantly increased. Caspases 3 and 7 were activated, but their activation was a late event, indicating a secondary role in the apoptotic process. Among the mitogen activated protein kinases, only the p38 protein was activated (phosphorylated) early enough to have a possible role in inducing apoptosis, possibly through p53 stabilization. The results of the present study and the data of the literature demonstrate that the ways in which cisplatin and oxaliplatin are neurotoxic are very similar and include not only DNA damage, but also the modulation of specific molecules involved in regulating the cellular equilibrium between apoptotic death and the cell cycle.

Antineoplastic Agents↗

[Transient electrical birefringence study of the interaction between DNA and platinum compounds: cis-DDP, trans-DDP and TDP].

The interaction between DNA and the platinum compounds cis-DDP, trans-DDP and TDP has been studied in aqueous solution at pH 7.0 by transient electric birefringence (TEB). Data was obtained on the electro-optical characteristics and hydrodynamic properties of these solutions. The specific interactions between each of the three platinum compounds and DNA were differentiated, and their binding affinity for DNA phosphate sites was as follows, in decreasing order of importance: TDP >> cis-DDP > trans-DDP.

Birefringence↗

[Antitumor activity and toxicity of KB-5424 R, a newly developed antitumor platinum compound].

KB-5424 (ab-(3-aminopyrrolidine)-cd-[glycolato (2-)-0, 0'] platinum (II) is a newly developed antitumor platinum compound which was synthesized at Kanebo Institute for Cancer Research. When the antitumor activity of KB-5424 was evaluated using several rodent tumors, no significant differences were observed between the antitumor activities of KB-5424, cisplatin (CDDP) and DWA-2114 R (DWA). KB-5424 was divided into two kinds of optical isomers, KB-5424 R and KB-5424 S, of which antitumor activity was compared each other. The maximum increased life span (ILSmax) on L 1210 of KB-5424 R was almost equal to that of CDDP and better than those of KB-5424 S and carboplatin (CBDCA). The antitumor activity of KB-5424 R on a human tumor xenograft MX-1 was almost identical to those of CDDP and CBDCA and better than that of DWA. Since the nephrotoxicity of KB-5424 R was significantly reduced comparing with CDDP, this newly developed antitumor platinum compound was thought to be a promising agent for the clinical application.

Animals↗

Platinum compounds as radiosensitizers in strontium-89 metabolic radiotherapy.

PURPOSE: Strontium-89 is currently used for the treatment of painful bone metastases. This study reports on two preliminary experiences with low-dose platinum compounds, carboplatin and cisplatin, as radiosensitizers in 89Sr therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 30 patients entered the carboplatin study: 15 patients (Group A) were treated with 148 MBq 89Sr followed by carboplatin (100 mg/m2 at 7 and 21 days) and 15 patients (Group B) were treated with 89Sr alone. 12 patients entered the cisplatin study: six patients (Arm 1) received 148 Mq 89Sr plus cisplatin (50 mg/m2) in two administrations (immediately before and 10 days after 89Sr injection) and six patients (Arm 2) received 89Sr plus two placebo administrations. Pain response was assessed 8 weeks after the therapy on the Wisconsin score modifications. RESULTS: No clinically significant adverse effects or myelosuppression by platinum compounds were observed. In carboplatin study a pain response was observed in 20 of 27 (74%) evaluable patients, 13/15 in group A and 7/12 in group B. The pain response in the patients treated with 89Sr and carboplatin was clearly superior to that seen in the patients treated with 89Sr alone (P = 0.025), whereas survival was only marginally better in the combined treatment group (8.1 vs 5.7 months, P = 0.19). In cisplatin study a pain response was observed in 10 of 12 (83%) evaluable patients, 5/6 in Arm 1 and 4/6 in Arm 2. CONCLUSIONS: Low-dose platinum compounds seem to enhance the effects of 89Sr radioisotope therapy on pain from bone metastases without relevant hematological toxicity.

Bone Neoplasms↗