The effect of chemotherapeutic drugs on free-radical oxidation of lipids in the lymph of lung cancer patients
Sidorenko, I.S.; Frantsiiants, E.M.; Tkacheva, E.M.; Musienko, N.V.; Kartashov, S.Z.
Voprosy Onkologii 44(3): 297-299
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 9695775 Document Number: 487318
Indices of lipid peroxidation in lymph from lung cancer patients before and after chemotherapy were studied. Chemotherapeutic drugs were shown to exert a moderate stressor effect on lymph by triggering oscillating reactions of endogenous antioxidant systems. Stress releases a pool of low-molecular weight antioxidants. Absence of catalase activity in plasma and lymphocytes is a peculiar feature of lymph in lung cancer patients.