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Oct 1, 2017

Novel therapeutic strategy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive gastric cancer

Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy
  • Nobuhiko Kanaya
  • ,
  • Shinji Kuroda
  • ,
  • Tetsushi Kubota
  • ,
  • Toshiaki Morihiro
  • ,
  • Satoru Kikuchi
  • ,
  • Masahiko Nishizaki
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Tazawa
  • ,
  • Shunsuke Kagawa
  • ,
  • Toshiyoshi Fujiwara

Volume
44
Number
10
First page
883
Last page
885
Language
Japanese
Publishing type
Book review, literature introduction, etc.
Publisher
Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy Publishers Inc.

Trastuzumab (Tmab), a humanized monoclonal antibody that selectively targets human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), is currently used in the clinical setting for the treatment of both breast and gastric cancer. While Tmab has shown improvements in patient prognoses, acquired resistance to this agent remains an issue. While some novel HER2-targeted agents have been approved for clinical use in breast cancer, no such agent has shown treatment efficacy for gastric malignancies with Tmab-resistance. Nanotechnology, which has progressed rapidly, has been applied to medical fields in recent years. Gold nanopartides, which are characterized by their in vivo stability and ease of surface modification, have been reported to show efficacy as the carriers of therapeutic agents, such as drugs, antibodies, peptides, and nucleic acids. In this work, we developed Tmab-conjugated gold nanopartides and demonstrate their efficacy for the treatment of HER2-positive, Tmab-resistant gastric cancer cell lines. Our findings demonstrate that Tmab-conjugated gold nanopartides have the potential to be a novel HER2-targeted therapeutic agent.

Link information
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29066684
ID information
  • ISSN : 0385-0684
  • Pubmed ID : 29066684
  • SCOPUS ID : 85040528106

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