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. 2017 Sep 11;19:107. doi: 10.1186/s13058-017-0896-4

Table 1.

Veliparib concentrations by LC-MS (left) and its spatial distribution by MALDI (bottom) varies by tissue, drug dose and TNBC cell line of origin

Tissue Amount of tissue
median (RSE)
Comparison Method Subjects (N) Tissues (N) Tissues (N)
<LOD; <LOQ
Median conc.
(RSE %)a
Ion intensity
tumor/muscle (RSE %);
P
a) Veliparib Plasma 50 μL 20 mg/kg
60 mg/kg
LC-MS 9
6
9
6
1; 0
0; 0
0.19 (10)
0.86 (11)
<0.001 (Low/high dose)
Muscle 49.9 mg (13%) 20 mg/kg
60mg/kg
5
6
5
6
2; 3
1; 1
0.12 (70)
0.47 (47)
0.882 (Muscle/plasma)*
Liver 49.9 mg (12%) 20 mg/kg
60 mg/kg
6
6
6
6
0; 0
0; 0
0.47 (20)
1.77 (14)
<0.001 (Liver/plasma)*
TNBC xenograft tissue 46.1 mg (8%) 20 mg/kg
60 mg/kg
12
12
19
17
8; 15
0; 1
0.12 (31)
0.36 (12)
0.322 (Tumor/plasma)
0.0038 (tumor/plasma)
HCC70 20 mg/kg 4 6 2; 4 0.13 (43) 0.0367 (Cell source)*
60 mg/kg 5 9 0; 0 0.43 (16)
MDA-MB-231 20 mg/kg 4 7 4; 6 0.01 (62)
60 mg/kg 4 5 0; 1 0.27 (18)
MDA-MB-436 20 mg/kg 4 6 2; 5 0.05 (47)
60 mg/kg 3 3 0; 0 0.32 (26)
12 μm section 20 mg/kg
60 mg/kg
MALDI 6
9
6
12
0.98 (16); 0.02
1.36 (19); 0.13
<0.001 (Low/high dose)
Necrotic tumors
Cellular tumors
15
15
18
18
1.63 (70%)
1.01 (85%)
0.084 (ROI)*

MALDI matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization, TBNC triple negative breast cancer, PBMC peripheral blood mononuclear cells, RSE relative standard errors, ROI region of interest, V veliparib

aConcentration (Conc.) of veliparib and carboplatin in mg/L, carboplatin adducts in μmol/g DNA

*P value adjusted for dose