Exposure of L1210 leukemia cells first to 0.1 to 100 micromolar methotrexate and then to 10 micromolar 5-fluorouracil produces a synergistic effect on the number of cells killed in culture. Methotrexate dose-related increases occur in the concentrations of intracellular 5-fluorouracil ribonucleotides and 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridylate and in the incorporation of 5-fluorouracil into RNA. These incre...

PURPOSE 5-Fluorouracil is the most effective chemotherapeutic agent in the management of patients with systemic colorectal cancer. Studies in recent years discussed the gradually increasing benefits of 5-fluorouracil within adjuvant chemotherapy protocols after complete surgical resections. However, many studies also have demonstrated that 5-fluorouracil impairs wound-healing on colonic anastom...

A liposomal delivery system was developed in an attempt to prolong ocular levels of 5-fluorouracil for glaucoma filtering surgery. The pharmacokinetics of the 5-fluorouracil liposomal delivery system were studied in normal pigmented rabbits with 5-fluorouracil labelled with carbon-14 (C-14). 14C 5-fluorouracil was incorporated into the liposomes at a concentration of 10 g/l and injected subconj...

CONTEXT 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is an antimetabolite that acts during the S phase of the cell cycle. Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) is the initial and rate-limiting enzyme in the pathway that catabolises the pyrimidines. 5-fluorouracil and its oral prodrug capecitabine are used in the treatment of a number of solid tumors, including colorectal, breast, gastric, pancreatic, prostate, and bl...

OBJECTIVE In Japan, cisplatin/5-fluorouracil 80/800 (cisplatin 80 mg/m2, 5-fluorouracil 800 mg/m2) is widely used to treat recurrent/metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, whereas cisplatin/5-fluorouracil 100/1000 (1000 mg/m2/24 h by continuous intravenous infusion on Days 1-4 plus cisplatin 100 mg/m2 on Day 1 in 3-week cycles) is the standard treatment in Europe and North Ame...

Background: Cyclophosphamide (CPA) is a drug with wide spectrum of clinical uses. It commonly used as anticancer and immuno suppressant agent. induces hyperlipidemia myocardium damage. 5-FU widely in the treatment range cancers. combination other chemotherapeutic agents improves response rates survival breast head neck Objectives: The present study aimed to evaluate antidyslipidemic effect 5-fl...