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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-2-23
pubmed:abstractText
Serum-free growth of Ewing's sarcoma (ES) and primitive peripheral neuroectodermal tumour (pPNET) cell lines was achieved by supplementing a basal medium with insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). These cultures were used to investigate the sensitivity of 3 ES (EW-2, RD-ES, SK-ES-1) and 3 pPNET (SIM-1, KAL, SAL) cell lines to a panel of anti-tumour agents in short-term (48-h) proliferation assays. Of the four cytostatic drugs included in the currently used multi-drug regimens, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and actinomycin-D inhibit the proliferation of the cell lines with high efficacy, whereas the vinca alkaloids were less effective. Cisplatin, etoposide, mitomycin-C and mitoxanthrone were also found to have a high inhibitory activity in this in vitro ES/pPNET system. The most remarkable effect was observed for cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C), which gave a half-maximal inhibition at drug concentrations approximately 5000 times below the clinical peak plasma concentrations (250 micrograms/ml). The ARA-C sensitivity of ES and pPNET cell lines is comparable with the established ARA-C sensitivities of leukaemia-derived cells. The different ES and pPNET cell lines showed a rather uniform response to the different cytostatic drugs with decreased sensitivity of individual pPNET cell lines to vinblastin, ARA-C and mitoxanthrone. Modulation of the IGF-I/IGF-I receptor/IGF-I binding protein system, which seems to constitute an important stimulator of cell growth in neuroectoderm-derived or -related tumours, can be used to enhance the drug sensitivity of the tumour cells in vivo or in vitro therapeutic procedures. According to our results, serum-free conditions for autologous bone marrow purification are expected to result in significantly increased chemosensitivity of ES and pPNET cells in response to anthracyclines and cisplatin.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0959-8049
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
29A
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
241-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Insulin-like growth factor-I-dependent growth and in vitro chemosensitivity of Ewing's sarcoma and peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour cell lines.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, University of Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't