Ultrasound-mediated delivery of doxorubicin to the brain results in immune modulation and improved responses to PD-1 blockade in gliomas.

Autor: Arrieta, Víctor A., Gould, Andrew, Kim, Kwang-Soo, Habashy, Karl J., Dmello, Crismita, Vázquez-Cervantes, Gustavo I., Palacín-Aliana, Irina, McManus, Graysen, Amidei, Christina, Gomez, Cristal, Dhiantravan, Silpol, Chen, Li, Zhang, Daniel Y., Saganty, Ruth, Cholak, Meghan E., Pandey, Surya, McCord, Matthew, McCortney, Kathleen, Castro, Brandyn, Ward, Rachel
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Zdroj: Nature Communications; 6/6/2024, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p1-19, 19p
Abstrakt: Given the marginal penetration of most drugs across the blood-brain barrier, the efficacy of various agents remains limited for glioblastoma (GBM). Here we employ low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPU) and intravenously administered microbubbles (MB) to open the blood-brain barrier and increase the concentration of liposomal doxorubicin and PD-1 blocking antibodies (aPD-1). We report results on a cohort of 4 GBM patients and preclinical models treated with this approach. LIPU/MB increases the concentration of doxorubicin by 2-fold and 3.9-fold in the human and murine brains two days after sonication, respectively. Similarly, LIPU/MB-mediated blood-brain barrier disruption leads to a 6-fold and a 2-fold increase in aPD-1 concentrations in murine brains and peritumoral brain regions from GBM patients treated with pembrolizumab, respectively. Doxorubicin and aPD-1 delivered with LIPU/MB upregulate major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II in tumor cells. Increased brain concentrations of doxorubicin achieved by LIPU/MB elicit IFN-γ and MHC class I expression in microglia and macrophages. Doxorubicin and aPD-1 delivered with LIPU/MB results in the long-term survival of most glioma-bearing mice, which rely on myeloid cells and lymphocytes for their efficacy. Overall, this translational study supports the utility of LIPU/MB to potentiate the antitumoral activities of doxorubicin and aPD-1 for GBM. Ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening has been exploited to improve drug delivery in the brain. Here the authors show that low-intensity pulsed ultrasound in combination with intravenous injection of microbubbles enhances the delivery of doxorubicin and anti-PD1 in gliomas, improving anti-tumor immune responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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