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Inhibition of Multidrug Transporter in Tumor Endothelial Cells Enhances Antiangiogenic Effects of Low-Dose Metronomic Paclitaxel

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
  • Kosuke Akiyama
  • Nako Maishi
  • Noritaka Ohga
  • Yasuhiro Hida
  • Yusuke Ohba
  • Mohammad Towfik Alam
  • Taisuke Kawamoto
  • Hitomi Ohmura
  • Kenji Yamada
  • Chisaho Torii
  • Masanobu Shindoh
  • Kyoko Hida
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Volume
185
Number
2
First page
572
Last page
580
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1016/j.ajpath.2014.10.017
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

Tumor angiogenesis plays an important role in tumor progression and metastasis. Tumor endothelial cells (TECs) are a therapeutic target of antiangiogenic chemotherapy that was recently developed and is currently being investigated in the clinic with promising results. Low-dose chemotherapy, which is the Long-term administration of relatively Low doses of chemotherapeutic agents, has been proposed for targeting tumor angiogenesis in various types of cancers. ALthough the efficacy of low-dose chemotherapy has been confirmed in several clinical models, some studies show insufficienttherapeutic effect for malignant cancers. As a possible mechanism of the treatment failure, it has been considered that tumor cells may acquire resistance to this therapy. However, drug resistance by TECs may also be due to another mechanism for resistance of tumor cells to low-dose chemotherapy. We reported elsewhere that TECs were resistant to the anticancer drug paclitaxel, which is a mitotic inhibitor, concomitant with P-glycoprotein up-regulation. Verapamil, a P-glycoprotein inhibitor, abrogated TEC resistance in vitro. Herein, we demonstrated that verapamil coadministration enhanced the effects of Low-dose paclitaxel concomitant with inhibiting tumor angiogenesis in a preclinical in vivo mouse melanoma xenograft model. Furthermore, verapamil coadministration reduced lung metastasis. These results suggest that inhibiting P-gLycoprotein in TECs may be a novel strategy for low-dose chemotherapy targeting TECs.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2014.10.017
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25498238
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000348489400026&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1016/j.ajpath.2014.10.017
  • ISSN : 0002-9440
  • eISSN : 1525-2191
  • Pubmed ID : 25498238
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000348489400026

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