The lack of long-term sappressive effect of ciprofloxatin on marine bone marrow

Abstract

In order to investigate the long-term effect of therapy with tiprofloxacin on haemopoietic cells, we administered ciprofloxacin orally in a daily dosage of 150 mg/kg/day in three divided doses for 11 days to syngeneic mice. A control group of mice was treated with saline. On the second, sixth, tenth and sixteenth day of ciprofloxacin therapy complete blood counts (cbc) and determination of haemopoietic progenitor cells (cfu-gm) from the tibial and femoral bone marrow were performed and followed by the transplantation of the bone marrow into lethally irradiated syngeneic mice. Bone marrow engraftment was evaluated ten days following transplantation by counting the visible colonies formed on the spleen surface (cfu-s) and by measuring the incorporation of ¹²⁵I by the spleen and by the femurs of the transplanted mice. The results revealed that there was no statistical significance between the control and the ciprofloxacin treated mice in cbc, cfu-gm and cfu-s parameters. It is concluded that the suppressive effect of ciprofloxacin on haemopoietic cells appears only with very high concentrations of ciprofloxacin and is short-term and reversible.