Abstract
Background : Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) is the purine salvage enzyme that converts guanosine to guanine and inosine to hypoxanthine. Methods : 279 samples from patients with differing cancers were collected during treatment at both pre- and post-dose stages for plasma PNP activity and compared with a normal population. Results : Normal plasma PNP activity was found to be 3.2±1.4 U/l ( n =55) as compared with the cancer patients (pre-dose 12.3±7.4 U/l [ n =215] and post-dose 11.2±5.9 U/l [ n =64]). Levels of plasma PNP did not differ greatly between the different cancer types but were on average four times greater than that found in the reference population.
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