Experimental studies on treatment of pancreatic cancer with double-regulated duplicative adenovirus AdTPHre-hEndo carrying human endostatin gene
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Summary, in English
Background: Gene-virus targeted therapy is a promising new method of treating pancreatic cancer. To increase the efficacy and decrease the side-effect, we constructed a conditionally replicative adenovirus (CRAd) expressing human endostatin, with a human Telomoerase Reverse Transcriptase (hTERT) promoter for the regulation of the early stage of adenovirus expression of gene E1a and a Hypoxia Response Element (HRE) promoter to regulate the gene E1b. Methods: A gene recombination technique was adopted to construct and generate the adenovirus AdTPHre-hEndo. Pancreatic cancer cells were studied both in vitro and in vivo. Western blotting was adopted to observe the expressions of protein E1A and E1B; duplication assay was applied to observe the selective duplication capability of recombinant cells. MTT assay was applied to measure the lethal effects of virus on pancreatic cancer cells, and ELISA was adopted to detect the human endostatin gene expression. A pancreatic cancer transplantation tumor model of nude mice was constructed to observe the antitumor effects of the virus. Results: Double-regulated duplicative adenovirus AdTPHre-hEndo genes were successfully constructed. Duplication and lethal assays proved that AdTPHre-hEndo could replicate specifically in pancreatic cancer cells and kill them. The endostatin expression in a cultured supernatant from tumor cells was significantly higher than that obtained from non-duplicative adenovirus vectors carrying that gene. The animal experiment demonstrated that AdTPHre-hEndo has a high capability to limit pancreatic cancer growth. Conclusions: AdTPHre-hEndo has a special ability to duplicate and kill pancreatic cancer cells in in vitro and in vivo experiments, thus providing a new gene-virus-based treatment system for pancreatic cancer. Copyright (C) 2013, IAP and EPC. Published by Elsevier India, a division of Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.
Avdelning/ar
- Kirurgi, Lund
- BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
393-400
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Pancreatology
Volym
13
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Karger
Ämne
- Surgery
Nyckelord
- Adenovirus
- Pancreatic cancer
- Telomerase
- Hypoxia response elements
- Endostatin
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1424-3903