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Colasanti A, Kisslinger A, Kusch D, Liuzzi R, Mastrocinque M, Montforts FP, Quarto M, Riccio P, Roberti G, Villani F. In vitro photo-activation of newly synthesized chlorin derivatives with red-light-emitting diodes. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 1997; 38:54-60. [PMID: 9134754 DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(96)07430-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We investigated the in vitro photo-activation properties of two chlorin derivatives, i.e. 8-cis-heptylchlorin dicarboxylic acid and 3-trans-heptylchlorin bisamidoglucose derivative, which exhibit lipophilic properties similar to those of the active fractions of Photofrin II, on a normal epithelial cell line (FRTL-5). We used as an irradiation source an array of diodes emitting red light (lambda = 675 nm), which produced a fluence of 7mW cm-2 on the cells. We found that photo-activation with chlorin derivatives in the concentration range 1-100 ng ml-1 greatly enhanced the mortality of the irradiated cells (energy density, 0.25 J cm-2) with respect to the control cells kept in the dark. This response is immediate and appears to be an "all or none' effect. Taking into account that compounds exhibit a strong absorbance peak in the long wavelength region of visible light where tissues are relatively transparent, our results suggest that chlorins can be considered to be good candidates for application in photodynamic therapy.
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- A Colasanti
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Moleculare, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
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Paiva MB, Saxton RE, Letts G, Chung PS, Soudant J, Vanderwerf Q, Castro DJ. Laser photochemotherapy with anthracyclines on cultured human squamous carcinoma cells. Laryngoscope 1996; 106:257-62. [PMID: 8614185 DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199603000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A new treatment for cancer has been tested in vitro using light-sensitive anthracyclines followed by laser photoactivation, as described by several investigators. We previously reported 10-fold enhanced laser killing after 2 hours of incubation with daunomycin by cultured human carcinoma cells. This short-term uptake leads to drug localization in cytoplasmic and membrane sites prior to nuclear accumulation and topoisomerase inhibition. In the present study, daunomycin was incubated for 2 or 24 hours with P3 squamous carcinoma cells to directly compare cytoplasmic vs. nuclear drug targeting before and after KTP-532 laser activation. Monolayer cultures of the P3 cells sensitized with daunomycin for 2 hours, then chilled (4 degree C), and exposed to the KTP laser (532 nm, 94.2 J/cm2) had a 2- to 10-fold increased therapeutic response compared with drug or laser alone when measured by MTT tetrazolium assays. After 24 hours of incubation with daunomycin, the chemotherapeutic response of P3 tumor cells was amplified 2-fold by laser exposure. The results suggest that daunomycin and laser treatment can be combined for improved therapy of human cancer.
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- M B Paiva
- Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1624, USA
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Saxton RE, Paiva MB, Lufkin RB, Castro DJ. Laser photochemotherapy: a less invasive approach for treatment of cancer. SEMINARS IN SURGICAL ONCOLOGY 1995; 11:283-9. [PMID: 7481365 DOI: 10.1002/ssu.2980110403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The effectiveness of combining surgery with chemo- and radiation therapy in treatment of human cancer provides a useful model for further development of new multimodality approaches including laser photochemotherapy. Laser endoscopy often is a useful treatment for obstructive tumors in airways, but interstitial laser fiberoptics is becoming a more precise, minimally invasive alternative for ablation of unresectable or recurrent neoplasms. Combining intratumor chemotherapy with laser energy delivery via interstitial fiberoptics should be most effective using drugs activated by photothermal energy. A number of investigators have shown that anthracyclines and cis-platinum are likely candidates for light or heat activation in cancer cells. An advantage of anthracyclines is their dual role as antitumor drugs and as photosensitizers. Because they are effective chemotherapy agents without photoactivation, two approaches are possible to increase tumor responses. Maximum tolerated dose followed by photoillumination via laser fiberoptics can be used to obtain better tumor palliation. Improved treatment response to lower intratumor drug levels after laser activation also should reduce systemic toxicity. Preclinical studies and recent case reports from several groups suggest photochemotherapy with currently approved drugs and lasers may soon become an attractive alternative for treatment of recurrent tumors in cancer patients.
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- R E Saxton
- Division of Surgical Oncology, UCLA School of Medicine 90024, USA
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Andreoni A, Colasanti A, Colasanti P, Mastrocinque M, Riccio P, Roberti G. Laser photosensitization of cells by hypericin. Photochem Photobiol 1994; 59:529-33. [PMID: 8041807 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1994.tb02978.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Administering a light dose of 90 J/cm2 at 599 nm during incubation with hypericin to a highly differentiated normal epithelial cell line (FRTL-5), derived from Fisher rat thyroid, and to a neoplastic cell line (MPTK-6), derived from the lung metastases of a thyroid carcinoma induced in Fisher rats, produces cell kill at drug doses 1000 times lower than those necessary to cause the same mortality in the dark. The photocytocidal activity of this polycyclic quinone drug on neoplastic cells is superior to that of antitumor anthraquinone drugs, such as daunomycin and mitoxanthrone, and to the photosensitized antiviral activity previously reported for hypericin.
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- A Andreoni
- Centro di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale-C.N.R., Napoli, Italy
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Because of promising clinical results obtained with photodynamic therapy, more and more photosensitizers continue to be isolated (from natural sources), synthesized and evaluated, the development of which is considered to be a key factor for the successful clinical application of photodynamic therapy. Porphyrins and their analogs (as classical types of phototherapeutic agents) have been extensively reviewed. In this review, we have attempted to summarize the phototherapeutic potential (in particular, anticancer and antiviral aspects) of nonporphyrin photosensitizers (as a new generation of phototherapeutic agents) in more detail, which have been relatively much less reviewed hitherto. They include anthraquinones, anthrapyrazoles, perylenequinones, xanthenes, cyanines, acridines, phenoxazines and phenothiazines. They have shown certain phototherapeutic advantages over the presently used porphyrins. Some anthraquinones, perylenequinones, cyanines, phenoxazines and phenothiazines exhibit strong light absorption in the 'phototherapeutic window' (600-1000 nm), high photosensitizing efficacy and low delayed skin photosensitivity. Some of the nonporphyrin photosensitizers (such as rhodamine 123, merocyanine 540 and some cyanine cationic dyes) demonstrate higher selectivity for tumor cells. They can also be explored in connection with selective carcinoma photolysis strategy based on mitochondrion-, lysosome- or DNA-directed localization mode.
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- Z Diwu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Andreoni A, Colasanti A, Kisslinger A, Mastrocinque M, Riccio P, Roberti G. Fluorometric determination of the kinetics of anthracyclines uptake by cells. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL METHODS 1994; 28:53-68. [PMID: 8151070 DOI: 10.1016/0165-022x(94)90064-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Fluorometric measurements on extracellular medium are shown to allow kinetic parameters of in vitro anthracycline uptake by cells to be calculated. The method provides influx and efflux rates, as well as the time dependence of both influx and efflux. It is applied to a normal thyroid epithelial cell line (FRTL-5) and a cell line (MPTK-6) derived from the lung metastases of a thyroid carcinoma exposed to daunorubicin at concentrations within the range of 250 to 1000 ng/ml. The results show that the number of cells influences the dependence of the kinetics upon the extracellular drug concentration and that the MPTK-6 cells are endowed with very efficient efflux mechanisms.
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- A Andreoni
- Centro Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale-C.N.R., Napoli, Italy
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Andreoni A, Colasanti A, Kisslinger A, Mastrocinque M, Portella G, Riccio P, Roberti G. Enhanced response to daunomycin of normal, tumor and metastatic cell lines via drug photoactivation. Photochem Photobiol 1993; 57:851-5. [PMID: 8337260 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1993.tb09223.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We have compared the cytotoxicity of daunomycin in vitro to highly differentiated normal epithelial cells (Fisher rat thyroid cells, FRTL-5) and to two neoplastic cell lines, a thyroid carcinoma (TK-6) and its lung metastasis (MPTK-6). Whereas the cell lines are equally sensitive to the drug in the dark, if irradiated during incubation with daunomycin (86 J/cm2 at 488 nm), they become more and differently sensitive. Namely, the drug doses producing 50% mortality decrease by factors of about 22, 28 and 16 for FRTL-5, TK-6 and MPTK-6 cell lines, respectively. This result correlates with differences in drug uptake and resistance observed in the normal and neoplastic cell lines.
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- A Andreoni
- C.N.R., Centro Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale (C.E.O.S.), Napoli, Italy
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Andreoni A, Colasanti A, Roberti G. Excited singlet state properties of anthracenedione photosensitizers. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 1992; 14:319-28. [PMID: 1403375 DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(92)85111-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The absorption, fluorescence and S1 state kinetics of anthracycline antitumour drugs (e.g. daunomycin, adriamycin) and several imino- and/or amino-substituted derivatives are investigated. The study, which includes all anthracyclines which possess photocytocidal activity, is extended to the disubstituted aminoanthracenedione, mitoxantrone, a red-light-absorbing antitumour drug whose activity, both in vitro and in vivo, is enhanced by photoactivation. The S1 state of the anthracycline imino and amino derivatives, in aqueous buffer at pH 7.4, is characterized by bi-exponential decay kinetics which indicates the presence of two ground state populations differing in the extent of hydrogen bonding. The ammonium group of the sugar moiety of anthracyclines contributes to the quenching of the S1 state population through a prototropic mechanism.
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- A Andreoni
- Centro Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale C.E.O.S.-C.N.R. University of Naples, Italy
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Andreoni A, Canti G, Fabbrocini G, Mastrocinque M, Quarto E. B16 melanoma response in vivo to photochemotherapy with mitoxantrone and red light. Cancer Lett 1991; 61:89-94. [PMID: 1764702 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(91)90081-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The cytocidal activity of light-activated mitoxantrone in mice bearing B16 melanoma was investigated. Mice inoculated with 10(6) tumor cells on day 0 were i.p. injected with 1 mg/kg body weight of mitoxantrone on days 1, 5 and 9 and exposed to 108 J/cm2 of suitably filtered red light from a halogen lamp on days 2, 6 and 10. The treatment significantly prolonged the median survival time compared to both therapy with mitoxantrone and with red light alone.
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- A Andreoni
- Centro Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale - C.N.R., University of Naples, Italy
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Andreoni A, Colasanti A, Malatesta V, Riccio P, Roberti G. Enhancement of antitumor drug cytotoxicity via laser photoactivation. Photochem Photobiol 1991; 53:797-805. [PMID: 1886938 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1991.tb09894.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We investigate the efficacy of daunomycin, some imino- and amino-substituted daunomycin analogues and the disubstituted aminoanthracenedione, mitoxantrone, in photosensitizing short-term cell kill upon irradiation in the long wavelength visible range, during incubation of Fisher rat thyroid cells with the drugs. While all compounds exhibit similar cytocidal effects on our cell line, in the absence of irradiation, administering 86 J/cm2 at wavelengths either coincident or close to drug absorption peaks causes greater enhancement in cell mortality for the 4-demethoxydaunomycin analogues than either the parent drug or its 5-imino-derivative. A lower enhancement is observed with mitoxantrone. In particular, C50 doses (i.e. concentrations that would kill 50% cells) as low as approximately 10(-9) M are found for both 6- and 11-amino 4-demethoxydaunomycin, compared with the values obtained in the absence of light, which are 2.59 x 10(-4) and 0.43 x 10(-4) M, respectively. Our previous studies of the photophysical and photochemical properties of the excited states of these drugs, and ESR and spin trapping studies of photosensitized generation of singlet oxygen, which were extended in this work to include mitoxantrone, indicate that the cytocidal effects proceed via type I rather than type II mechanisms.
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- A Andreoni
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, University of Naples, Italy
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Studying the fluorescence decay of chromophores, either used as fluorescent labels to stain specific biomolecules or as photosensitizers to produce irreversible chemical or physico-chemical modifications on biological substrates, is being demonstrated to be a valuable method of investigating the interactions underlying a variety of phenomena. In fact, all possible primary steps in a photosensitized biological system are phenomena that may occur during the chromophore S1 lifetime and act as quenching mechanisms of the S1 state. Thus they can be identified, and the relative importance of the corresponding transient species quantitatively determined, with suitable techniques of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The examples discussed in this paper concern both tumor photosensitizing drugs, such as anthracyclines and porphyrins, and skin sensitizers (e.g. furocoumarins).
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- A Andreoni
- Centro Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale, C.N.R., 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Napoli, Italy
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