Anti-Metastatic Benefits Produced by Hyperthermia and a CCL3 Derivative
Anti-Metastatic Benefits Produced by Hyperthermia and a CCL3 Derivative
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DOI:
10.3390/cancers11111770
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发表时间:
2019-11-01
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影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Takahashi, Akihisa
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作者:
Ma, Liqiu;Kambe, Ryosuke;Takahashi, Akihisa
Significant numbers of malignant tumor cells that have spread to surrounding tissues and other distant organs are often too small to be picked up in a diagnostic test, and prevention of even such small metastases should improve patient outcomes. Using a mouse model, we show in this article that intravenous administration of a human CCL3 variant carrying a single amino acid substitution after mild local hyperthermia not only induces tumor growth inhibition at the treated site but also inhibits metastasis. Colon26 adenocarcinoma cells (1 x 10(5) cells/mouse) were grafted subcutaneously into the right hind leg of syngeneic BALB/c mice and after nine days, when tumor size reached similar to 11 mm in diameter, the local tumor mass was exposed to high-frequency waves, by which intratumoral temperature was maintained at 42 degrees C for 30 min. Mice received the CCL3 variant named eMIP (2 mu g/mouse/day) intravenously for five consecutive days starting one day after heat treatment. We found that tumor growth in eMIP recipients after hyperthermia was inhibited markedly but no effect was seen in animals treated with either hyperthermia or eMIP alone. Furthermore, the number of lung metastases evaluated at 18 days after hyperthermia treatment was dramatically reduced in animals receiving the combination therapy compared with all other controls. These results encourage future clinical application of this combination therapy.