Acute cardio-respiratory effects in rats of PS4α, an antineoplastic peptidoglycan from Mycobacterium vaccae

Author:

Villar Vincent M1,Morcillo Esteban J1,Cortijo Julio1,Reed Ann2,Groves Michael J2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pharmacology, University of Valencia, School of Medicine, Blasco Ibanez 15, 46010 Valencia, Spain

2. Institute for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago (M/C 964), Chicago Technology Park, Suite 217, 2201 W. Campbell Park Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA

Abstract

Abstract PS4α is a high molecular weight peptidoglycan extracted from Mycobacterium vaccae, which has demonstrated considerable antineoplastic activity in-vivo without apparent toxicity. Available for testing in only small quantities, a sensitive in-vivo method for measuring pulse and breathing rates in cannulated rats was applied to this compound at doses of 5, 50 and 500 μg kg−1. Various parameters (mean arterial pressure, maximum transpulmonary pressure, compliance, heart rate, minute volume, respiratory rate and tidal volume) were followed for up to 1 h and demonstrated no significant deviation in the baseline values obtained before injection. This compound at doses up to 500 μg kg−1 had no apparent acute toxicity in rats, but chronic effects at this and higher doses have to be determined by more conventional toxicological methods before proceeding to evaluate PS4α as an antineoplastic agent.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Pharmaceutical Science,Pharmacology

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