Applicability of anti-neovascular therapy to drug-resistant tumor: Suppression of drug-resistant P388 tumor growth with neovessel-targeted liposomal adriamycin
Applicability of anti-neovascular therapy to drug-resistant tumor: Suppression of drug-resistant P388 tumor growth with neovessel-targeted liposomal adriamycin
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ijpharm.2005.02.030
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发表时间:
2005-05-30
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5.8
通讯作者:
Oku, N
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Shimizu, K;Asai, T;Oku, N
Anti-neovascular therapy, one of the effective anti-angiogenic chemotherapy, damages new blood vessels by cytotoxic agents delivered to angiogenic endothelial cells and results in indirect eradication of tumor cells. We previously reported that liposomes-modified with a pentapeptide, Ala-Pro-Arg-Pro-Gly (APRPG-Lip) horning to angiogenic site, highly accumulated in tumor tissue, and APRPG-Lip encapsulating adriamycin (APRPG-LipADM) effectively suppressed tumor growth in tumor-bearing mice. In the present study, we examined the topological distribution of fluorescence-labeled APRPG-LipADM as well as TUNEL-stained cells in an actual tumor specimen obtained from Colon 26 NL-17 carcinoma-bearing mice. The fluorescence-labeled APRPG-Lip dominantly localized to vessel-like structure: A part of which was also stained with anti-CD31 antibody. Furthermore, TUNEL-stained cells were co-localized to the same structure. These data indicated that APRPG-LipADM bound to angiogenic endothelial cells and induced apoptosis of them. We also investigated the applicability of anti-neovascular therapy using APRPG-LipADM to ADM-resistant P388 solid tumor. As a result, APRPG-LipADM significantly suppressed tumor growth in mice bearing the ADM-resistant tumor. These data suggest that APRPG-LipADM is applicable to various kinds of tumor including drug-resistant tumor since it targets angiogenic endothelial cells instead of tumor cells, and eradicates tumor cells through damaging the neovessels. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.