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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 71, Issue 11, Pages 3963-3971Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-0906
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- National Institutes of Health [RO1 CA 89395]
- B.R.A.I.N. Foundation
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The contribution of microenvironment to tumor growth has important implications for optimizing chemotherapeutic response and understanding the biology of recurrent tumors. In this study, we tested the effects of locally administered topotecan on a rat model of glioblastoma that is induced by intracerebral injection of PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor)-IRES (internal ribosome entry site)-GFP (green fluorescent protein)-expressing retrovirus, treated the tumors by convection-enhanced delivery (CED) of topotecan (136 mu mol/L) for 1, 4, or 7 days, and then characterized the effects on both the retrovirus-transformed tumor cells (GFP(+) cells) as well as the uninfected glial progenitor cells (GFP(-) cells) that are recruited to the tumor. Topotecan treatment reduced GFP(+) cells about 10-fold and recruited progenitors by about 80-fold while providing a significant survival advantage that improved with greater treatment duration. Regions of glial progenitor ablation occurred corresponding to the anatomic distribution of topotecan as predicted by MRI of a surrogate tracer. Histopathologic changes in recurrent tumors point to a decrease in recruitment, most likely due to the chemotherapeutic ablation of the recruitable progenitor pool. Cancer Res; 71(11); 3963-71. (C)2011 AACR.
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