Treatment of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta-Insensitive Mouse Renca Tumor by Transforming Growth Factor-Beta Elimination - 08/08/11
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Résumé |
Objectives |
The mouse renal cell carcinoma line, Renca, is insensitive to transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) in vitro. The present study was conducted to determine whether removal of TGF-β from these tumor cells would inhibit tumor progression in vivo.
Methods |
TGF-β elimination was accomplished either by administration of neutralizing TGF-β antibody into mice receiving intravenous injection of Renca tumor cells or infection of TGF-β antisense expression vector into these tumor cells before subcutaneous injection into recipient mice.
Results |
Although a low dose of TGF-β antibody (5 mg/kg every 3 days) was without any effect, a high dose of TGF-β antibody (50 mg/kg every 3 days), administered to recipient mice, resulted in a significant reduction in lung metastasis and was accompanied by increased apoptosis in the tumor cells. When the tumor cells were transfected with a TGF-β1 antisense expressing vector, a significant reduction occurred in the tumor incidence, as well as the tumor burden. However, in nude mice, cells with reduced TGF-β1 production grew almost as well as did the unmodified Renca cells, suggesting that the host's immune system might play an antitumor role.
Conclusions |
These results indicate that progression of Renca tumor can be inhibited by eliminating TGF-β from the tumor cells. Our results also suggest that, although insensitive to TGF-β under in vitro conditions, Renca tumors could be inhibited by TGF-β removal through the systemic host environment.
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C. Lee is a study investigator partially funded by Genzyme Corporation. |
Vol 72 - N° 1
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