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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Vitamin E Phosphate Nucleoside Prodrugs: A Platform for Intracellular Delivery of Monophosphorylated Nucleosides.

Richard Daifuku, Michael Koratich, Murray Stackhouse

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Significance of Vitamins A and E in Cancer Progression and Prevention.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  5. Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Richard DaifukuEpigenetics Pharma, 9270 SE 36th Pl, Mercer Island, WA 98040, USA. rdaifuku@yahoo.com.
Michael KoratichSouthern Research, 2000 9th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA. mkoratich@southernresearch.org.
Murray StackhouseSouthern Research, 2000 9th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA. mstackhouse@southernresearch.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitamin E phosphate (VEP) nucleoside prodrugs are designed to bypass two mechanisms of tumor resistance to therapeutic nucleosides: nucleoside transport and kinase downregulation. Certain isoforms of vitamin E (VE) have shown activity against solid and hematologic tumors and result in chemosensitization. Because gemcitabine is one of the most common chemotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, it was used to demonstrate the constructs utility. Four different VE isoforms were conjugated with gemcitabine at the 5' position. Two of these were δ-tocopherol-monophosphate (MP) gemcitabine (NUC050) and δ-tocotrienol-MP gemcitabine (NUC052). NUC050 was shown to be able to deliver gemcitabine-MP intracellularly by a nucleoside transport independent mechanism. Its half-life administered IV in mice was 3.9 h. In a mouse xenograft model of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) NCI-H460, NUC050 at a dose of 40 mg/kg IV qwk × 4 resulted in significant inhibition to tumor growth on days 11-31 (

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cancergemcitabinenucleosidenucleotideprodrugtocopheroltocotrienolvitamin E

Identifiers

PMID29415423
PMCPMC5874712

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