Antineoplastics Natural Products Flashcards
What are your Microtubule-damaging agents(microtubule inhibitors)?
Vinca alkaloids and Taxanes, Estramustine, Epothilones
Vinca Alkaloids?
Vinblastine, Vincristine, Virnorelbine, Eribulin
Taxanes?
Paclitaxel, Docetaxel
Camptothecin Analogues
Topetecan, Irinotecan
Epipodophyllotoxins
Etoposide, Teniposide
Nature-derived?
L-Asparaginase, Hydroxyurea, Retinoids, Arsenic Trioxide, Mitotane
Plant derived drugs?
Microtubule damaging agents, Camptothecins, epipdophyllotoxins
In the M phase?
cell growth and protein production stops
Division of two daughter cells (chromosome seperation)
What do mitotic inhibitors do?
interfere with assembly and disassembly of tubulin into microtubule polymers-> inhibits mitosis->Apoptosis
Which drug class disrupts microtubule polymerization?
Vinca alkaloids
Which drug class stabilizes microtubule formation (inhibiting microtubule de-polymerization)
Taxanes
Vinca Alkaloids work in which phase of cell cycle?
Cell cycle specific for M Phase
Vinca Alkaloids MOA?
binds to B-tubulin and blocks polymerization with a-tubulin into microtubules–> prevents mitotic spindle formation –>interrupts chromosome aligning and cell division arrests–>apoptosis
Where are microtubules highest at?
The Brain
AE of Vinca alkaloids?
Neurotoxicity
Constipation
Increased Pgp?
Cancer drug resistance
PgP (P-glycoprotein) known as?
MDR1, ABCB1, CD243
-ATP dependent efflux pump: provides cellular defense mechanism against potentially harmful substances
Vinca alkaloids are metabolized?
Hepatically
Reduce dose in hepatic dysfunction or elevated billirubin
Vinblastine is part of curative treatment for?
Hodgkin disease
Curative treatment for metastatic testicular cancer?
Vinblastine with Bleomycin and Cisplatin
For childhood leukemia?
Vincristine with glucocorticoids (better tolerated in kids)
What is the CHOP regimen?
Cyclophosphamide, Hydroxyrubocin, Oncovin, Prednisolone
-Used in Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
For Wilms tumor, Neuroblatoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma?
Vincristine -standard for leukemis and lymphomas especially in pediatrics
Vincristine and Neuro?
mostly neurological manifestations that can be reversed once stopped, reduced, or suspended
Vinorelbine AE
Granulocytopenia
less neurotoxicity
Eribulin is a poor substrate of _____ and is effective in?
Pgp efflux pump and effective in drug resistant tumors that overexpress Pgp
Eribulin used in?
drug resistant metastatic breast cancer and liposarcoma
Taxanes MOA?
bind to a different site on B-tubulin and promote microtubule formation—>stabalizes tubulin-GDP
Paclitaxel MOA?
binds to B-tubulin subunit on the inner surface of microtubules and antagonizes their disassembly–>bundles of microtubules appear–>arrest in mitosis–>cell death
Drugs that block cell-cycle progression prior to Mitosis _____ the toxic effects of taxanes
antagonize
(Like Cisplatin given before)
Increased membrane bound efflux proteins such as MRP1 and Pgp
decrease cellular drug accumulation