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  3. Comparative effect of 6S, 6R and 6RS leucovorin on methotrexate rescue and on modulation of 5-fluorouracil

Comparative effect of 6S, 6R and 6RS leucovorin on methotrexate rescue and on modulation of 5-fluorouracil

  • Br J Cancer. 1991 Jun;63(6):885-8. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1991.194.
J Zittoun 1,  J Marquet,  J J Pilorget,  C Tonetti,  E De Gialluly
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  • 1 Service Central d'Hématologie-Immunologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor Faculté de Médecine, Creteil, France.
PMID: 2069845 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1991.194
Abstract

The comparative efficacy of the pure diastereoisomers of leucovorin, the natural (6S) and the unnatural (6R) forms was compared to the racemic form (6RS). A protective effect in methotrexate-treated CCRF-CEM cells was obtained with 6S at concentrations 100-fold higher than those of methotrexate and with 6RS at concentrations 2-fold greater than those of 6S; however, at low concentrations of methotrexate, 6S was more effective than 6RS in preventing the cytotoxicity of methotrexate; on the opposite, 6R exhibited a protective effect at concentrations 10(4) higher than those of methotrexate. On the same cell line, 6S was shown to enhance the cytotoxic effect of 5 Fluorouracil exactly as 6RS while 6R did not exhibit any enhancing effect on cells exposed to 5 Fluorouracil.

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