Abstract
ABSTRACTToremifene, a second-generation triphenylethylene antiestrogen used clinically in the chemotherapy of breast cancer and some other cancers, differs in its nonclinical toxicology from its first-generation congener tamoxifen. Tamoxifen produces DNA adducts and tumors in rat liver, whereas assays for DNA adduct formation with toremifene have been negative to weakly positive, and toremifene does not produce liver tumors in rats. to evaluate further toremifene for possible genotoxicity, it was tested in three standard, in vitro assay—reversion of bacterial point mutations, unscheduled DNA synthesis in cultured hepatocytes from two rat strains, and cytogenetics of human lymphocytes in primary cultur—and in one in vivo assay, the mouse, erythrocyte micronucleus assay. the three in vitro assays were conducted with toremifene at up to the limit of cytotoxicity (100 to 250 ng/ml, depending on the system). the bacterial mutagenicity and lymphocyte chromosome aberration assays were performed both in the presence and absence of metabolic activation by Araclor-induced, rat liver S-9, while the hepatocyte unscheduled DNA synthesis assay provides intrinsic bioactivation. to test for chromosome damage in vivo, mice were administered up to 2g/kg toremifene once by gavage, and bone marrow was harvested daily, for three days. Normochromatic and polychromatic bone marrow erythrocytes were examined for micronuclei. Toremifene lacked genotoxicity or myelotoxicity detectable by any of the above assays. These findings, together with the reported absence of DNA binding in rat liver, provide evidence that toremifene is not genotoxic.
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