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Pharmaceuticals (Basel) ; 17(3)2024 Feb 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38543087

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L-4-[(10B)]Boronophenylalanine (BPA) is an amino acid analogue with a boron-10 moiety. It is most widely used as a boron carrier in boron neutron capture therapy. In this study, a Bayesian predictive platform of blood boron concentration based on a BPA pharmacokinetic (PK) model was developed. This platform is user-friendly and can predict the individual boron PK and optimal time window for boron neutron capture therapy in a simple way. The present study aimed to establish a PK model of L-4-boronophenylalanine and develop a Bayesian predictive platform for blood boron PKs for user-friendly estimation of boron concentration during neutron irradiation of neutron capture therapy. Whole blood boron concentrations from seven previous reports were graphically extracted and analyzed using the nonlinear mixed-effects modeling (NONMEM) approach. Model robustness was assessed using nonparametric bootstrap and visual predictive check approaches. The visual predictive check indicated that the final PK model is able to adequately predict observed concentrations. The Shiny package was used to input real-time blood boron concentration data, and during the following irradiation session blood boron was estimated with an acceptably short calculation time for the determination of irradiation time. Finally, a user-friendly Bayesian estimation platform for BPA PKs was developed to optimize individualized therapy for patients undergoing BNCT.

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Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol ; 112(1-4): 39-49, 2002.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15080495

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Alterations of the FHIT gene occur as frequent events in several human cancers. Replacement of exogenous wild-type FHIT gene has been shown to induce suppression of tumorigenicity of human FHIT-negative cells in nude mice and aberrant FHIT transcripts have been observed in a variety of human solid tumors. In the presence study, we performed a nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis to identify aberrant FHIT transcripts in 6 gastric cancer cell lines. In addition to the wild-type FHIT transcript, small-sized transcripts with various number and lengths were observed in all of the cell lines examined. Sequence analysis confirmed that different types of truncated transcripts included exonic deletions, insertions of intron 5 sequences between exons, and combinations of both. Most of these transcripts lacked exon 5 in which translation initiation codon is located. Aberrant transcripts with partial exonic deletions, resulting from activation of cryptic splice sites, were also observed in 5 cell lines. Additionally, multi-step splice patterns, indicative of additional downstream processing, were observed in several cancer lines. Our results suggest that the aberrant FHIT transcripts in gastric cancer cell lines resulted from faulty splicing, including exon skipping, selection of cryptic splice site and additional downstream splice processing.


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Acid Anhydride Hydrolases/genetics , Alternative Splicing/genetics , Neoplasm Proteins/genetics , Stomach Neoplasms/metabolism , Cell Line, Tumor , DNA Primers , DNA, Complementary/biosynthesis , DNA, Complementary/genetics , Exons , Humans , Molecular Sequence Data , RNA, Neoplasm/biosynthesis , RNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Stomach Neoplasms/genetics , Transcription, Genetic
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