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Evaluating vacquinol-1 in rats carrying glioblastoma models RG2 and NS1

Ahlstedt, Jonatan LU orcid ; Förnvik, Karolina LU orcid ; Zolfaghari, Shaian LU orcid ; Kwak, Dongoh ; Hammarström, Lars G.J. ; Ernfors, Patrik ; Salford, Leif G. LU and Nittby Redebrandt, Henrietta LU (2018) In Oncotarget 9(9). p.8391-8399
Abstract

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant primary brain tumor, and available experimental and routine therapies result in limited survival benefits. A vulnerability of GBM cells to catastrophic vacuolization and cell death, a process termed methuosis, induced by Vacquinol-1 (VQ-1) has been described earlier. In the present study, we investigate the efficacy of VQ-1 treatment in two syngeneic rat GBM models, RG2 and NS1. VQ-1 treatment affected growth of both RG2 and NS1 cells in vitro. Intracranially, significant reduction in RG2 tumor size was observed, although no effect was seen on overall survival. No survival advantage or effect on tumor size was seen in animals carrying the NS1 models compared to untreated... (More)

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant primary brain tumor, and available experimental and routine therapies result in limited survival benefits. A vulnerability of GBM cells to catastrophic vacuolization and cell death, a process termed methuosis, induced by Vacquinol-1 (VQ-1) has been described earlier. In the present study, we investigate the efficacy of VQ-1 treatment in two syngeneic rat GBM models, RG2 and NS1. VQ-1 treatment affected growth of both RG2 and NS1 cells in vitro. Intracranially, significant reduction in RG2 tumor size was observed, although no effect was seen on overall survival. No survival advantage or effect on tumor size was seen in animals carrying the NS1 models compared to untreated controls. Furthermore, immunological staining of FOXP3, CD4 and CD8 showed no marked difference in immune cell infiltrate in tumor environment following treatment. Taken together, a survival advantage of VQ-1 treatment alone could not be demonstrated here, even though some effect upon tumor size was seen. Staining for immune cell markers did not indicate that VQ-1 either reduced or increased host anti-tumor immune response.

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Glioblastoma, NS1, Rat, RG2, Vacquinol-1
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Oncotarget
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9
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9
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8391 - 8399
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Impact Journals
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  • scopus:85041482040
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1949-2553
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10.18632/oncotarget.23842
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English
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  abstract     = {{<p>Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant primary brain tumor, and available experimental and routine therapies result in limited survival benefits. A vulnerability of GBM cells to catastrophic vacuolization and cell death, a process termed methuosis, induced by Vacquinol-1 (VQ-1) has been described earlier. In the present study, we investigate the efficacy of VQ-1 treatment in two syngeneic rat GBM models, RG2 and NS1. VQ-1 treatment affected growth of both RG2 and NS1 cells in vitro. Intracranially, significant reduction in RG2 tumor size was observed, although no effect was seen on overall survival. No survival advantage or effect on tumor size was seen in animals carrying the NS1 models compared to untreated controls. Furthermore, immunological staining of FOXP3, CD4 and CD8 showed no marked difference in immune cell infiltrate in tumor environment following treatment. Taken together, a survival advantage of VQ-1 treatment alone could not be demonstrated here, even though some effect upon tumor size was seen. Staining for immune cell markers did not indicate that VQ-1 either reduced or increased host anti-tumor immune response.</p>}},
  author       = {{Ahlstedt, Jonatan and Förnvik, Karolina and Zolfaghari, Shaian and Kwak, Dongoh and Hammarström, Lars G.J. and Ernfors, Patrik and Salford, Leif G. and Nittby Redebrandt, Henrietta}},
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  keywords     = {{Glioblastoma; NS1; Rat; RG2; Vacquinol-1}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{9}},
  pages        = {{8391--8399}},
  publisher    = {{Impact Journals}},
  series       = {{Oncotarget}},
  title        = {{Evaluating vacquinol-1 in rats carrying glioblastoma models RG2 and NS1}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23842}},
  doi          = {{10.18632/oncotarget.23842}},
  volume       = {{9}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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