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Determination Of Hexamethylene Bisacetamide, An Antineoplastic Compound, In Mouse And Human Plasma By Lc–Ms/Ms, Kerri M. Smith, Wannarasmi Ketchart, Xiang Zhou, Monica M. Montano, Yan Xu
Determination Of Hexamethylene Bisacetamide, An Antineoplastic Compound, In Mouse And Human Plasma By Lc–Ms/Ms, Kerri M. Smith, Wannarasmi Ketchart, Xiang Zhou, Monica M. Montano, Yan Xu
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Hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA) is a polar compound which has recently been discovered to have antineoplastic activity by up-regulating the expression of an endogenous antiproliferative breast cancer protein, HEXIM1 (hexamethylene bisacetamide inducible protein 1) in vivo. HMBA has been shown in the past to induce terminal differentiation in multiple leukemia types at a concentration of 2–5 mM, but its phase I and II clinical trials were largely unsuccessful due to serious side effects (notably, thrombocytopenia) with dose escalation. In this work, a sensitive and simple LC–MS/MS method for direct determination of HMBA in mouse and human plasma is described. Plasma samples …