IMMUNOLOGICAL AND ANTITUMOR EFFECTS OF COUMARIN AND SOME DERIVATIVES

ROSSKOPF, F and KRAUS, J and FRANZ, G (1992) IMMUNOLOGICAL AND ANTITUMOR EFFECTS OF COUMARIN AND SOME DERIVATIVES. PHARMAZIE, 47 (2). pp. 139-142. ISSN 0031-7144,

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Abstract

Coumarin and its 4-OH and 7-OH derivatives, as well as o-, m- and p-coumaric acid were tested against P-815 and P-388 tumor cells in vitro. In addition, the compounds were investigated in various in vitro immunological test systems and genuine coumarin was tested furthermore against the Sarcoma-180 in CD1 mice. In vivo, coumarin showed only a moderate antitumor effect against the allogenic Sarcoma-180 at concentrations of 10 and 40 mg/kg, with inhibition rates of 49 and 60%, respectively. However, both concentrations were markedly toxic. In vitro all compounds were more or less cytotoxic against P-815 and P-388 tumor cell lines starting at a concentration of 100-mu-g/ml. At subtoxic concentrations (less-than-or-equal-to 10-mu-g/ml) the samples showed no mitogenic activity against murine spleen lymphocytes and PHA costimulated human peripheral blood lymphocytes. Furthermore, with the coumarin derivatives neither cytotoxic macrophages could be induced against P-815 tumor cells nor an increased release of Il-2 and TNF-alpha could be observed. Only 7-OH coumarin, in concentrations of 2 and 20-mu-g/ml, caused a strong increase in phagocytosis of 124 and 84% in both, human peripheral blood granulocytes and murine peritoneal macrophages, respectively.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: CIMETIDINE;
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 08:44
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/54667

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