Interferon-gamma cooperates with retinoic acid and phorbol ester to induce differentiation and growth inhibition of human neuroblastoma cells
(2001) In International Journal of Cancer 94(1). p.97-108- Abstract
- The prognosis of patients with advanced stages of neuroblastoma with N-myc amplification remains poor despite escalated therapy, a situation that has called for alternative therapeutic approaches. Neuroblastoma cells, which represent immature peripheral neuronal cells, treated with certain physiologic and nonphysiologic agents such as retinoic acid (RA), phorbol esters and interferons (IFN) in vitro undergo cellular differentiation and stop to divide, a process that mimics normal neuronal development. Such "differentiation therapy" using RA after autologous bone marrow transplantation has recently given encouraging results in neuroblastoma patients with advanced disease. Considering approaches for improved differentiation therapy, we... (More)
- The prognosis of patients with advanced stages of neuroblastoma with N-myc amplification remains poor despite escalated therapy, a situation that has called for alternative therapeutic approaches. Neuroblastoma cells, which represent immature peripheral neuronal cells, treated with certain physiologic and nonphysiologic agents such as retinoic acid (RA), phorbol esters and interferons (IFN) in vitro undergo cellular differentiation and stop to divide, a process that mimics normal neuronal development. Such "differentiation therapy" using RA after autologous bone marrow transplantation has recently given encouraging results in neuroblastoma patients with advanced disease. Considering approaches for improved differentiation therapy, we investigated possible synergistic effects of combining agents known to influence neuroblastoma growth and differentiation in vitro. Our results show that combined treatment with IFN-gamma and RA or the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol acetate (TPA) had synergistic or enhancing effects on morphologic differentiation and neurite outgrowth in 5 of 5 neuroblastoma cell lines, 3 of which expressed very high levels of N-myc mRNA due to N-myc amplification. The combinations RA+IFN-gamma or TPA+IFN-gamma also enhanced induced growth inhibition in all 5 cell lines, in several cases resulting in complete growth arrest under conditions where cells stimulated with either agent alone continued to grow. The phenotypic effects of the combined RA+IFN-gamma or TPA+IFN-gamma treatments were in most, but not all, investigated cases accompanied by moderate reductions in N-myc expression, suggesting that the cooperative signals may counteract N-Myc activity at several levels. The cooperativity between IFN-gamma and other differentiation signals may be relevant for approaches to improve the therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma with N-myc-amplification. (Less)
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- Guzhova, Irina ; Hultquist, Anne ; Cetinkaya, Cihan ; Nilsson, Kenneth ; Påhlman, Sven LU and Larsson, Lars-Gunnar
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- 2001
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- neuroblastoma, interferon-gamma, retinoic acid, phorbol ester, N-myc, differentiation
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- International Journal of Cancer
- volume
- 94
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 97 - 108
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- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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- pmid:11668484
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- 0020-7136
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- 10.1002/ijc.1443
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- English
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- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Molecular Medicine (013031200)
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abstract = {{The prognosis of patients with advanced stages of neuroblastoma with N-myc amplification remains poor despite escalated therapy, a situation that has called for alternative therapeutic approaches. Neuroblastoma cells, which represent immature peripheral neuronal cells, treated with certain physiologic and nonphysiologic agents such as retinoic acid (RA), phorbol esters and interferons (IFN) in vitro undergo cellular differentiation and stop to divide, a process that mimics normal neuronal development. Such "differentiation therapy" using RA after autologous bone marrow transplantation has recently given encouraging results in neuroblastoma patients with advanced disease. Considering approaches for improved differentiation therapy, we investigated possible synergistic effects of combining agents known to influence neuroblastoma growth and differentiation in vitro. Our results show that combined treatment with IFN-gamma and RA or the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol acetate (TPA) had synergistic or enhancing effects on morphologic differentiation and neurite outgrowth in 5 of 5 neuroblastoma cell lines, 3 of which expressed very high levels of N-myc mRNA due to N-myc amplification. The combinations RA+IFN-gamma or TPA+IFN-gamma also enhanced induced growth inhibition in all 5 cell lines, in several cases resulting in complete growth arrest under conditions where cells stimulated with either agent alone continued to grow. The phenotypic effects of the combined RA+IFN-gamma or TPA+IFN-gamma treatments were in most, but not all, investigated cases accompanied by moderate reductions in N-myc expression, suggesting that the cooperative signals may counteract N-Myc activity at several levels. The cooperativity between IFN-gamma and other differentiation signals may be relevant for approaches to improve the therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma with N-myc-amplification.}},
author = {{Guzhova, Irina and Hultquist, Anne and Cetinkaya, Cihan and Nilsson, Kenneth and Påhlman, Sven and Larsson, Lars-Gunnar}},
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keywords = {{neuroblastoma; interferon-gamma; retinoic acid; phorbol ester; N-myc; differentiation}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{1}},
pages = {{97--108}},
publisher = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
series = {{International Journal of Cancer}},
title = {{Interferon-gamma cooperates with retinoic acid and phorbol ester to induce differentiation and growth inhibition of human neuroblastoma cells}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijc.1443}},
doi = {{10.1002/ijc.1443}},
volume = {{94}},
year = {{2001}},
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