Endoxifen

Mice^[2]
Six-weeks-old, female, athymic NCr–nu/nu mice are implanted subcutaneously (s.c.) near the right flank with 30-40-mg fragment of MCF-7 human mammary tumor from an in vivo passage. The day of tumor fragments implantation is designated as Day 0. To support the estrogen-dependent MCF-7 tumor growth, each animal is implanted s.c. in the back of the neck with a 0.72-mg 17 β-estradiol 60-day release pellet 1 day prior to tumor fragment implantation. Individual tumors grew to 75-196 mm³ in size on Day 13 after tumor fragment implantation, the day of treatment initiation. A total of 36 tumor bearing mice are randomized and divided into 4 treatments (6 mice/group) and one control (12 mice/group) groups. At day 13 post tumor implantation, treatment with control (water), Endoxifen at three dose levels (2, 4, and 8 mg/kg) or Tamoxifen twice a day, 3 h apart at a dosage of 10 mg/kg are administered by oral gavage once daily for 28 consecutive days. The dose volume 0.2 mL/10 g body weight is kept constant for all treatment groups. The s.c. tumors are measured and the animals are weighed twice weekly starting on the first day of treatment. The study is terminated on Day 58. The median time to reach two tumor mass doublings is used in the calculation of the overall delay in the growth of the median tumor. Additionally, comparison of the median tumor weight in the treatment groups to the median tumor weight in the control group (T/C 9 100%) on Day 41 (1 day after the last treatment) and on Day 58 (the day of study termination) are used for an additional evaluation of the antitumor efficacy^[2].

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