Commercially available pentostatin powder for injection should be stored at 2-8 °C. ... When stored at 2-8 °C, the manufacturer states that currently available pentostatin powder for injection is stable for 18 mo after the date of manufacture when stored as directed. ... Pentostatin is compatible with 5% dextrose injection, 0.9% sodium chloride injection, and lactated Ringer's. When reconstituted with 0.9% sodium chloride injection to a final concentration of 2 mg/ml, pentostatin solutions are physically and chemically stable for at least 72 hr at room temperature (22-25 °C). When diluted to a final concentration of 20 ug/ml, the drug is chemically compatible at room temperature with 0.9% sodium chloride or lactated Ringer's injection for at least 48 hr and with 5% dextrose injection for at least 24 hr. Up to an 8-10% loss in potency has been reported to occur within 48 hr in such solutions diluted in 5% dextrose, However, because such reconstituted and/or diluted pentostatin solutions contain no preservatives, the manufacturer recommends that they be used within 8 hr when stored at room temperature in ambient light, and that unused portions be discarded.
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Specific optical rotation: + 76.4 deg at 25 °C/D (concentration by volume = 1 g 100 ml water); specific optical rotation: + 73.0 deg at 23 °C/D (concentration by volume = 1 g in 100 ml water pH 7 buffer)
Limited data suggest that concomitant therapy with pentostatin (4 mg/sq m every 2 weeks) and fludarabine (principally 10 mg/sq m daily for 4 days at 28 day intervals), a synthetic purine nucleoside, may be associated with severe and/or fatal pulmonary toxicity (eg, pneumonitis). In one study, 4 of 6 patients receiving the drugs concomitantly for treatment of refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia reportedly developed such toxicity.
Although therapy with either pentostatin or allopurinol alone has been associated with the development of skin rash, limited evidence suggests that concomitant use of the drugs, compared with pentostatin therapy alone, in patients with refractory hairy cell leukemia is not associated with an increased incidence of rash. However, other toxicities, including abnormalities in renal or hepatic function, have been observed in a few patients receiving concomitant pentostatin and allopurinol. ... One patient reportedly developed a fatal hypersensitivity vasculitis while receiving pentostatin and allopurinol concurrently; however, a causal relationship to the drugs has not been established.
Pentostatin inhibits the degradation of vidarabine and enhances its cytotoxicity in cell culture and in animals with experimentally induced leukemia. In addition, limited data in patients with acute leukemia suggest that combined therapy with the drugs may be associated with increased plasma vidarabine concentrations and/or half-life and greater toxicity compared with pentostatin therapy alone. Although improvement and/or remission has been reported in a few patients with acute T cell lymphoblastic leukemia who received vidarabine and pentostatin concomitantly.
No specific antidote for pentostatin overdosage is known. Administration of pentostatin in dosages higher than those currently recommended (20-50 mg/sq m over 5 days as compared with 4 mg/sq m every other week, respectively) has been associated with severe renal, hepatic, pulmonary, and CNS toxicity, which was unpredictable and occasionally fatal. In case of overdosage, management should include discontinuance of the drug and initiation of supportive measures appropriate to the type of toxicity observed.
Plasma concentrations of pentostatin following direct iv injection of 0.25 mg/kg daily for 4 or 5 days in a limited number of patients with advanced, refractory cancer ranged from approximately 3.2-9.7 ng/ml. Plasma concentrations appear to increase linearly with dose; in a study in patients with leukemia, plasma pentostatin concentrations determined 1 hour after administration of 0.25 or 1 mg/kg of the drug as a 30 min iv infusion averaged approximately 0.4 or 1.26 ug/ml, respectively.
No apparent correlation has been documented between mean or absolute plasma adenosine or deoxyadenosine concentrations and therapeutic or toxic responses to pentostatin; however, limited data suggest that there may be a correlation between response to the drug and the ratio of deoxyadenosine triphosphate to adenosine triphosphate in lymphoblasts. In addition, increases in plasma deoxyadenosine reportedly parallel the accumulation of deoxyadenosine triphosphate in erythrocytes and lymphoblasts, and there appears to be a correlation between toxicity and the ratio of deoxyadenosine triphosphate to adenosine triphosphate in erythrocytes.
Studies in animals indicate that pentostatin distributes rapidly to all body tissues, but the extent of drug accumulation in different tissues appears to vary among species. Following intraperitoneal injection in mice, the highest concentrations of the drug were found in the kidneys, liver, and spleen. In dogs, pentostatin tissue concentrations following iv administration were proportional to tissue adenosine deaminase activity, with the highest concentrations in the lungs, spleen, pancreas, heart, liver, and jejunum. Pentostatin reportedly enters erythrocytes via a facilitated transport system common to other nucleosides or by simple diffusion; efflux of the drug from cells has not been characterized, although the time course of pentostatin's effects (eg, adenosine deaminase inhibition) varies among different types of cells (eg, lymphocytes, erythrocytes).
Limited data in animals and humans indicate that pentostatin distributes relatively poorly into CSF, with peak CSF concentrations averaging approximately 10% of concurrent plasma concentrations. In a 6 yr old leukemia patient receiving pentostatin 0.25 mg/kg daily for 3 successive days by direct iv injection, serum and CSF (via lumbar puncture) pentostatin concentrations 4 hr after the initial dose were approximately 147 and 19 ng/ml, respectively, using an enzyme-inhibition titration assay; one hour after the third dose, corresponding serum and CSF concentrations were approximately 241 and 35 ng/ml, respectively.
ACTIVE SUBSTANCE COMBINATION WITH GEMCITABINE FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPITHELIAL CANCER
申请人:HEESCHEN CHRISTOPHER
公开号:US20110151020A1
公开(公告)日:2011-06-23
The present invention refers to active substance combinations comprising of a nucleoside analog or antimetabolic agent like Gemcitabine, and either a Nodal/Activin inhibitor or a SHH-Inhibitor and an mTOR-inhibitor, medicaments comprising the same and the use of the active substance combinations in the treatment of cancer, especially of epithelial cancer.
[EN] TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR APTAMERS AND APTAMER-TARGETED DELIVERY<br/>[FR] APTAMÈRES DU RÉCEPTEUR DE LA TRANSFERRINE ET ADMINISTRATION CIBLÉE D'APTAMÈRES
申请人:EINSTEIN COLL MED
公开号:WO2013163303A2
公开(公告)日:2013-10-31
Aptamers targeted to a human transferrin receptor which do not compete with transferrin for binding are provided. Compositions and methods for aptamer-targeted liposomal drug delivery are also provided.
[EN] APTAMER-TARGETED ANTIGEN DELIVERY<br/>[FR] ADMINISTRATION D'ANTIGÈNE CIBLÉ À UN APTAMÈRE
申请人:EINSTEIN COLL MED
公开号:WO2014011465A2
公开(公告)日:2014-01-16
A composition is provided comprising an oligonucleotide aptamer conjugated to an antigen, wherein the aptamer is directed against a cell-surface target of an antigen- presenting cell. Also provided are methods of delivering an antigen to a dendritic cell and of eliciting an immune response in a subject.