Urinary excretion levels of unconjugated pterins in cancer patients and normal individuals
| Autor: | Baldasarre Stea, Roberts A. Smith, Barbara C. Halpern, Richard M. Halpern |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
| Předmět: |
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medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Clinical Biochemistry Biopterin Neopterin Biochemistry Excretion chemistry.chemical_compound Neoplasms Internal medicine medicine Humans Pterin Aged Ovarian Neoplasms Chemotherapy Carcinoma Biochemistry (medical) Cancer General Medicine Middle Aged Prognosis medicine.disease Pterins Xanthopterin Endocrinology chemistry Metabolic control analysis Female |
| Zdroj: | Clinica Chimica Acta. 113:231-242 |
| ISSN: | 0009-8981 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0009-8981(81)90277-1 |
| Popis: | Urinary excretion levels of seven unconjugated pterins in healthy individuals and in cancer patients, most of whom were undergoing chemotherapy, were measured utilizing a newly developed high-pressure liquid chromatographic system. Excretion of pterins in the control group appears to be under strict metabolic control as the values obtained were confined within a small range. When the mean excretion levels in control subjects were compared with those in cancer patients, we found a significant increase in the excretion of xanthopterin, neopterin and pterin and a significant decrease in isoxanthopterin by cancer patients. Biopterin levels, on the other hand, were found only slightly but not significantly increased, whereas pterin-6-carboxylic acid and 6-hydroxymethylpterin were found to be excreted in approximately equal amounts in both groups. Urinary excretion levels of pterins were monitored for a period of nine months in a patient being treated with chemotherapy for metastatic ovarian carcinomatosis. We found that the excretion pattern of pterins appeared to correlate with the clinical status of the patient. These results indicate that a definite imbalance in pterin, and possibly folate metabolism, is associated with the presence of malignant diseases. |
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