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OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 9, Pages 1184-1190Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000001935
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3-Nitrotyrosine; Acoustic neuroma; Oxidative stress; Radiation; Reactive oxygen species; Vestibular schwannoma
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- Department of Defense [CDMRP NF130072]
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Objective:Stereotactic radiation therapy is increasingly used to treat vestibular schwannomas (VSs) primarily and to treat tumor remnants following microsurgery. Little data are available regarding the effects of radiation on VS cells. Tyrosine nitrosylation is a marker of oxidative stress following radiation in malignant tumors. It is not known how long irradiated tissue remains under oxidative stress, and if such modifications occur in benign neoplasms such as VSs treated with significantly lower doses of radiation. We immunostained sections from previously radiated VSs with an antibody that recognizes nitrosylated tyrosine residues to assess for ongoing oxidative stress.Study Design:Immunohistochemical analysis.Methods:Four VSs, which recurred after excision, were treated with stereotactic radiation therapy. Ultimately each tumor required salvage reresection for regrowth. Histologic sections of each tumor before and after radiation were immunolabeled with a monoclonal antibody specific to nitrotyrosine and compared. Two VSs that underwent reresection of a growing tumor remnant without previous radiation therapy served as additional controls.Results:Irradiated tumors enlarged in volume by 3.16 to 8.62mL following radiation. Preradiation sections demonstrated little to no nitrotyrosine immunostaining. Three of four of irradiated VSs demonstrated increased nitrotyrosine immunostaining in the postradiation sections compared with preradiation tumor sections. Nonirradiated VSs did not label with the antinitrotyrosine antibody.Conclusions:VSs exhibit oxidative stress up to 7 years after radiotherapy, yet these VSs continued to enlarge. Thus, VSs that grow following radiation appear to possess mechanisms for cell survival and proliferation despite radiation-induced oxidative stress.
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