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Mesna
Clinical data
Pronunciation/ˈmɛznə/
AHFS/Drugs.comMonograph
Pregnancy
category
  • AU: B1
Routes of
administration
Oral, intravenous
ATC code
Legal status
Legal status
  • AU: S4 (Prescription only)
  • UK: POM (Prescription only)
  • US: ℞-only
Pharmacokinetic data
Bioavailability45–79% (Oral)
MetabolismOxidised in circulation
Elimination half-life0.36–8.3 hours
ExcretionRenal
Identifiers
  • sodium 2-sulfanylethanesulfonate
CAS Number
PubChem CID
ChemSpider
UNII
KEGG
ChEMBL
CompTox Dashboard (EPA)
ECHA InfoCard100.039.336 Edit this at Wikidata
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC2H5NaO3S2
Molar mass164.181 g/mol g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • [Na+].[O-]S(=O)(=O)CCS
  • InChI=1S/C2H6O3S2.Na/c3-7(4,5)2-1-6;/h6H,1-2H2,(H,3,4,5);/q;+1/p-1 checkY
  • Key:XOGTZOOQQBDUSI-UHFFFAOYSA-M checkY
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Mesna is an organosulfur compound used as an adjuvant in cancer chemotherapy involving cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide. It is marketed by Baxter as Uromitexan and Mesnex. The name of the substance is an acronym for 2-mercaptoethane sulfonate Na (Na being the chemical symbol for sodium).

It is on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system.[1]

Medical uses

Chemotherapy adjuvant

Mesna is used therapeutically to reduce the incidence of haemorrhagic cystitis and haematuria when a patient receives ifosfamide or cyclophosphamide for cancer chemotherapy. These two anticancer agents, in vivo, may be converted to urotoxic metabolites, such as acrolein.

Mesna assists to detoxify these metabolites by reaction of its sulfhydryl group with α,β-unsaturated carbonyl containing compounds such as acrolein.[2] This reaction is known as a Michael addition. Mesna also increases urinary excretion of cysteine.

Other

Outside North America, mesna is also used as a mucolytic agent, working in the same way as acetylcysteine; it is sold for this indication as Mistabron[3] and Mistabronco.

Administration

It is administered intravenously or orally (per mouth).[4] The IV mesna infusions would be given with IV ifosfamide, while oral mesna would be given with oral cyclophosphamide. The oral doses must be double the intravenous (IV) mesna dose due to bioavailability issues. The oral preparation allows patients to leave the hospital sooner, instead of staying four to five days for all the IV mesna infusions.

Mechanism

Mesna reduces the toxicity of urotoxic compounds that may form after chemotherapy administration. Mesna is a water-soluble compound with antioxidant properties, and is given concomitantly with the chemotherapeutic agents cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide. Mesna concentrates in the bladder where acrolein accumulates after administration of chemotherapy and through a Michael addition, forms a conjugate with acrolein and other urotoxic metabolites.[2] This conjugation reaction inactivates the urotoxic compounds to harmless metabolites. The metabolites are then excreted in the urine.[5]

See also

  • Coenzyme M – a coenzyme with the same parent structure used by methanogenic bacteria

References

  1. ^ "19th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (April 2015)" (PDF). WHO. April 2015. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Thurston, David E. (2007). Chemistry and Pharmacology of Anticancer Drugs. Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-1-4200-0890-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |name-list-format= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Mistabron Ampoules". South African Electronic Package Inserts. August 1973. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
  4. ^ Mace JR, Keohan ML, Bernardy H, et al. (December 2003). "Crossover randomized comparison of intravenous versus intravenous/oral mesna in soft tissue sarcoma treated with high-dose ifosfamide". Clin. Cancer Res. 9 (16 Pt 1): 5829–34. PMID 14676103.
  5. ^ Shaw IC, Graham MI (1987). "Mesna—a short review". Cancer Treat. Rev. 14 (2): 67–86. doi:10.1016/0305-7372(87)90041-7. PMID 3119211.

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