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tissue region renders microdialysis a powerful and appealing technology that is applied<br />

more and more in drug delivery and pharmacokinetic studies.<br />

1.5 The Effects of Anti-angiogenic Agents on the Pharmacokinetics of Cytotoxic<br />

Drugs<br />

1.5.1 The effects of anti-angiogenic agents on cytotoxic drugs disposition in solid<br />

tumors<br />

The effects of anti-angiogenic agents on cytotoxic drug disposition in solid<br />

tumors are paradoxical: Some investigators found that anti-angiogenic agents decrease<br />

the penetration of cytotoxic drugs into solid tumors; some indicated that anti-angiogenic<br />

agents increase the uptake of cytotoxic drugs into solid tumors, while others<br />

demonstrated that the delivery of cytotoxic drugs into solid tumors does not change after<br />

the administration of anti-angiogenic agents.<br />

Several studies showed pre-treatment with angiogenesis inhibitors decreased<br />

temozolomide (TMZ) concentration or exposure in rat glioma xenografts. In 1996, Dr.<br />

Gallo et al. examined the TMZ interstitial fluid concentration by using the microdialysis<br />

technique in a subcutaneous (SC) rat C6 glioma xenograft model after multiple doses of<br />

the angiogenesis inhibitor O-(N-chloroacetyl-carbamoyl)-fumagillol(TNP-470) [145].<br />

TNP-470 (30 mg/kg) was given SC on days 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 following tumor<br />

implantation. On day 15, control (no TNP-470) and treated rats received 40 mg/kg of<br />

TMZ intra-arterially. Plasma and interstitial fluid samples were collected for 8 h and<br />

non-compartmental methods were used for pharmacokinetic modeling. The results of this<br />

study indicated that the mean TMZ area under the interstitial fluid concentration-time<br />

curve was reduced by 25% in the TNP-470-treated group compared to the control. In a<br />

subsequent study, the same group determined the tumor distribution of TMZ in SC and<br />

intracerebral (IC) rat glioma models with the overexpression of VEGF (V+) after<br />

anti-angiogenic agent TNP-470 [146] administration. TNP-470 (30 mg/kg) was<br />

administered to the animals SC every other day for total 5 doses (SC tumor model) or 4<br />

to 6 doses (IC model) which is coincided with the presentation of the central nervous<br />

system symptom [146]. The day after the last dose of TNP-470, TMZ was administrated<br />

intra-arterially to achieve steady-state plasma concentration of 40 μg/ml. The steady-state<br />

concentration of TMZ in tumor ECF and plasma as well as the concentration of TMZ<br />

metabolite 5-(3-methyltriazen-1-yl) imidazole-4-carboximide (MTIC) in tumor ECF were<br />

determined and microvessel density (MVD) was quantitated using an anti-CD31 method.<br />

In both the V+ SC and V+ IC models, significant reductions in TMZ tumor<br />

concentrations and tumor-to-plasma concentration ratios compared with control after<br />

TNP-470 treatment were observed, being reduced an average of 25% and 50% in the SC<br />

and IC tumors, respectively. MTIC concentrations in V+ SC tumors also were reduced by<br />

50% after TNP-470 administration. Consistent with the reduction of TMZ and MTIC<br />

concentration in tumor ECF, MVD was reduced by TNP-470 compared with vehicle<br />

control in the V+ SC and V+ IC tumors. Additionally, Gallo et al. also determined the<br />

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