Blockade of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling in tumor cells and tumor-associated endothelial cells for therapy of androgen-independent human prostate cancer growing in the bone of nude mice
Autor: | Sun-Jin, Kim, Hisanori, Uehara, Takashi, Karashima, David L, Shepherd, Jerald J, Killion, Isaiah J, Fidler |
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Rok vydání: | 2003 |
Předmět: |
Male
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A Paclitaxel Blotting Western Administration Oral Mice Nude Bone Neoplasms Endothelial Growth Factors Bone and Bones Mice Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen In Situ Nick-End Labeling Tumor Cells Cultured Animals Pyrroles Neoplasm Metastasis Phosphorylation Lymphokines Dose-Response Relationship Drug Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors Interleukin-8 Prostatic Neoplasms Antineoplastic Agents Phytogenic Immunohistochemistry ErbB Receptors Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Pyrimidines Microscopy Fluorescence Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 Endothelium Vascular Neoplasm Transplantation Signal Transduction |
Zdroj: | Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 9(3) |
ISSN: | 1078-0432 |
Popis: | We determined whether blockade of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) signaling pathway by oral administration of the EGF-R tyrosine kinase inhibitor (PKI 166) alone or in combination with injectable Taxol inhibits the growth of PC-3MM2 human prostate cancer cells in the bone of nude mice.Male nude mice implanted with PC-3MM2 cells in the tibia were treated with oral administrations of PKI 166 or PKI 166 plus injectable Taxol beginning 3 days after implantation. The incidence and size of bone tumors and destruction of bone were determined by digitalized radiography. Expression of epidermal growth factor (EGF), EGF-R, and activated EGF-R in tumor cells and tumor-associated endothelial cells was determined by immunohistochemistry.Oral administration of PKI 166 or PKI 166 plus injectable Taxol reduced the incidence and size of bone tumors and destruction of bone. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that PC-3MM2 cells growing adjacent to the bone expressed high levels of EGF and activated EGF-R, whereas tumor cells in the adjacent musculature did not. Moreover, endothelial cells within the bone tumor lesions, but not in uninvolved bone or tumors in the muscle, expressed high levels of activated EGF-R. Treatment with PKI 166 and more so with PKI 166 plus Taxol significantly inhibited phosphorylation of EGF-R on tumor and endothelial cells and induced significant apoptosis and endothelial cells within tumor lesions.These data indicate that endothelial cells exposed to EGF produced by tumor cells express activated EGF-R and that targeting EGF-R can produce significant therapeutic effects against prostate cancer bone metastasis. |
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