<p>During the last decades, chemotherapy with cytotoxic drugs has played a significant role in cancer therapy. It’s important to develop new anticancer drugs, and drug sensitivity testing in vitro can be used to find the right diagnosis for the newly developed substances.</p><p>The aim of this study was to investigate the cytotoxic activity of the new signal transduction modulators bortezomib, gefitinib and PKC412. The well-established substances cisplatin, cytarabine, doxorubicin and vincristin were investigated for comparison.</p><p>The activity of the cytotoxic drugs was analysed in human tumor samples from patients with ovarian carcinoma (n=16) and lymphoma (n=15) by using the Fluorometric Microculture Cytotoxicity Assay (FMCA). The testing of cellular drug resistance by FMCA was accomplished successfully in 33 out of the 34 samples (97%).</p><p>The results of this study indicated that the activity of cytotoxic drugs in tumor cells obtained from patients with ovarian carcinoma and lymphoma may be detected by the FMCA. It also suggested that bortezomib and gefitinib could represent promising agents for treatment of ovarian carcinoma and that PKC412 might be of less use for patients with this diagnose.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:uu-6158 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Lundin, Desiré |
| Publisher | Uppsala University, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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