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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-7-16
pubmed:abstractText
In spite of aggressive therapy, children suffering from neuroblastoma have a poor prognosis. Therapeutic failure is most often observed in neuroblastomas with unfavorable features, including amplification/over-expression of the N-myc oncogene, rapid growth, effective angiogenesis and/or the tendency to metastasize. Here, we have used cultured human neuroblastoma cells with such features and we have examined whether antiangiogenic agents alone or in combination with tumor irradiation inhibit their angiogenesis and growth in vivo. We report that antiangiogenic agents (arginine deiminase, SU5416 and DC101) inhibit in vivo growth of neuroblastomas with unfavorable properties and that these effects are potentiated by simultaneous irradiation. Combination of either agent with irradiation leads to a reduction in the absolute number of tumor vessels and of perfused tumor vessels. Combination of arginine deiminase or DC101 with irradiation does not increase tumor hypoxia. Our data demonstrate for the first time that arginine deiminase suppresses the growth of unfavorable experimental neuroblastomas and that this effect is potentiated by irradiation. We suggest that antiangiogenesis alone or in combination with established therapeutic regimen may improve the outcome of unfavorable neuroblastomas in a clinical setting.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
106
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
723-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Angiogenesis Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Cell Hypoxia, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Combined Modality Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Indoles, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Neuroblastoma, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Pyrroles, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Whole-Body Irradiation, pubmed-meshheading:12866032-Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Arginine deiminase and other antiangiogenic agents inhibit unfavorable neuroblastoma growth: potentiation by irradiation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Hematology, Oncology and Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, University of Essen, Essen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't