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Original Article

The in vivo interaction between flavone acetic acid and hyperthermia

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Pages 779-789 | Received 21 Aug 1995, Accepted 23 May 1996, Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The in vivo interaction between flavone acetic acid (FAA) and hyperthermia was studied in a C3H mammary carcinoma grown in the feet of female CDFl mice and in normal foot skin. FAA was intraperitoneally injected prior to local tissue heating in restrained non-anaesthetized animals. Alone, FAA at doses of 100 mg/kg and above, inhibited tumour growth in a dose-dependent fashion. FAA also enhanced the tumour response to heat, the effect being dependent on both the time interval between the two modalities and the FAA dose, the greatest effect occurring when FAA doses of ≥ 150 mg/kg preceeded heat by 3–48h. These effects of FAA correlated with the drug's ability to decrease tumour blood perfusion measured using the RbCl extraction procedure. Injecting 150 mg/kg FAA 3h before heating (42.7d`C) resulted in a 2–2-fold increase in tumour heat damage, but had little effect on the response of normal foot skin in non-tumour-bearing mice. However, this treatment gave a 20-fold increase in normal tissue damage when the skin experiments were repeated in tumour-bearing animals. These effects in skin occurred in the absence of any blood perfusion changes, but appeared to be associated with FAA-induced TNF-α production.

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