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Measuring Cell Cycle Progression Kinetics with Metabolic Labeling and Flow Cytometry
Published on: May 22, 2012
Analysis of the effects of antitumor drugs on cell cycle kinetics
Abstract:
A cell cycle stage-specific multicompartmental model has been developed and used to investigate the effects of antitumor drugs on the proliferation of tumors. The drug effects simultaneously considered are (a) non-cycle-specific killing and cycle stage-specific killing of cells, (b) progression delay of cells through the cell cycle phases which may bring about an accumulation of cells in various phases of the cell cycle, and (c) prolongation of cell cycle times. These effects are analyzed in terms of possible variations in the behavior of cell kinetic parameters (namely, cell cycle times, cell loss rate, and growth fraction) and are implemented in the model specifying proper functional forms for the parameters. The time-course of drug distribution in a tumor-host system is also described by a two-compartment model and the factors affecting drug action are quantitatively formulated as a function of drug concentration. Simulation is carried out to examine the effects of BCNU, cytosine arabinoside, and methotrexate on the cell cycle and proliferation kinetics of L1210 leukemia, and the results of the simulation compare favorably with available experimental data. Also discussed are the sensitivity of drug effects to variation in dosage schedule and the different nodes of drug actions exerted on each cell cycle phase.
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