Pharmacokinetics of methotrexate–albumin conjugates in tumor-bearing rats
@article{Stehle1997PharmacokineticsOM, title={Pharmacokinetics of methotrexate–albumin conjugates in tumor-bearing rats}, author={Gerd Stehle and Andreas Wunder and Hannsjörg Sinn and Hans Hermann Schrenk and Sandra Schiitt and Eva Frei and Gernot Hartung and W Maier-borst and Dieter L. Heene}, journal={Anti-Cancer Drugs}, year={1997}, volume={8}, pages={835-844} }
Linking chemotherapeutic drugs to a macromolecular carrier system may enhance tumor targeting, reduce toxicity and overcome drug resistance mechanisms. As an elementary model to evaluate the pharmacological properties of macromolecular drug carrier systems we chose rat serum albumin (RSA) for carrier and methotrexate (MTX) as antineoplastic drug. The conjugation procedure yielded conjugates with an approximate 1:1 molar loading rate (MTX(1)-RSA). In the first part of the study a residualizing…
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