Plasma pharmacokinetics and cerebrospinal fluid penetration of hypericin in nonhuman primates

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-44

  Fox, Elizabeth ^a   Murphy, Robert F ^a   McCully, Cynthia L ^a   Adamson, Peter C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS malignancies; Hypericin; Pharmacokinetics

Indexed keywords

HYPERICIN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG PENETRATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; HALF-LIFE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PERYLENE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034912383     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002800000188     Document Type: Article

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