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MOLECULAR CANCER THERAPEUTICS
Volume 17, Issue 12, Pages 2643-2653Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-18-0696
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) [29400001, 16-28594A]
- JSPS [25430162, 16K08217, 17016076, 18H04059]
- A-STEP from JST [AS242Z01542Q]
- 3rd Anticancer Research-General 001 from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MLHW), Japan
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Sojo University
- BioDynamics Research Foundation
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Enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect-based nanomedicine is a promising strategy for successful anticancer therapy. The LPR effect is based on tumor blood flow. Because advanced large tumors, as frequently seen in clinical settings, are heterogeneous, with regions of defective vasculature and blood flow, achieving the desired tumor drug delivery is difficult. here, we utilized the EPR effect to increase drug delivery. To augment the EPR effect for improved therapeutic effects of nanomedicine, we exploited vascular mediators - the nitric oxide (NO) generators nitroglycerin (NC), hydroxy-urea, and L-arginine. These compounds generate NO in tumors with relatively high selectivity. Using different nanosized drugs in our protocol significantly increased (1.5-2 times) delivery of nanomedicines to different solid tumor models, along with markedly improving (2-3-fold) the antitumor effects of these drugs. Also, in 7,12-dimethylbenzIajanthracene-induced advanced end-stage breast cancer, often seen in clinical settings, 2 mg/kg polymer-conjugated pirarubicin (P-THP) with NG (0.2 mg/mouse) showed better effects than did 5 mg/kg P-TIP, and 5 mg/kg P-THP used with NC resulted in cures or stable tumors (no tumor growth) for up to 120 days. Moreover, in a murine autochthonous azoxymethane/dextran sulfate sodium-induced colon cancer model, NO donors markedly improved the therapeutic effects of P-THP even after just one injection, results that were comparable with those achieved with three weekly P-THP treatments. These findings strongly suggest the potential usefulness of NO donors as EPR effect enhancers to improve the therapeutic efficacy of nanomedicines. (C) 2018 AACR.
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