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Cardiotoxicity of commercial 5-fluorouracil vials stems from the alkaline hydrolysis of this drug.
The cardiotoxicity of 5-fluorouracil (FU) was attributed to impurities present in the injected vials. One of these impurities was identified as fluoroacetaldehyde which is metabolised by isolated perfused rabbit hearts into fluoroacetate (FAC), a highly cardiotoxic compound. FAC was also detected in...
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Nature Publishing Group
1992
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1977901/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1637660 |