Anti-invasive adjuvant therapy with imipramine blue enhances chemotherapeutic efficacy against glioma.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
The invasive nature of glioblastoma (GBM) represents a major clinical challenge contributing to poor outcomes. Invasion of GBM into healthy tissue restricts chemotherapeutic access and complicates surgical resection. Here, we test the hypothesis that an effective anti-invasive agent can "contain" GBM and increase the efficacy of chemotherapy. We report a new anti-invasive small molecule, Imipramine Blue (IB), which inhibits invasion of glioma in vitro when tested against several models. IB inhibits NADPH (reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate) oxidase-mediated reactive oxygen species generation and alters expression of actin regulatory elements. In vivo, liposomal IB (nano-IB) halts invasion of glioma, leading to a more compact tumor in an aggressively invasive RT2 syngeneic astrocytoma rodent model. When nano-IB therapy was followed by liposomal doxorubicin (nano-DXR) chemotherapy, the combination therapy prolonged survival compared to nano-IB or nano-DXR alone. Our data demonstrate that nano-IB-mediated containment of diffuse glioma enhanced the efficacy of nano-DXR chemotherapy, demonstrating the promise of an anti-invasive compound as an adjuvant treatment for glioma.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Munson, JM; Fried, L; Rowson, SA; Bonner, MY; Karumbaiah, L; Diaz, B; Courtneidge, SA; Knaus, UG; Brat, DJ; Arbiser, JL; Bellamkonda, RV
Published Date
- March 2012
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 4 / 127
Start / End Page
- 127ra36 -
PubMed ID
- 22461640
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1946-6242
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1946-6234
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003016
Language
- eng