Abstract: |
Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain how antiangiogenic drugs enhance the treatment efficacy of cytotoxic chemotherapy, including impairing the ability of chemotherapy-responsive tumors to regrow after therapy. With respect to the latter, we show that certain chemotherapy drugs, e.g., paclitaxel, can rapidly induce proangiogenic bone marrow-derived circulating endothelial progenitor (CEP) mobilization and subsequent tumor homing, whereas others, e.g., gemcitabine, do not. Acute CEP mobilization was mediated, at least in part, by systemic induction of SDF-1α and could be prevented by various procedures such as treatment with anti-VEGFR2 blocking antibodies or paclitaxel treatment in CEP-deficient Id mutant mice, both of which resulted in enhanced antitumor effects mediated by paclitaxel, but not by gemcitabine. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: |
cancer chemotherapy; controlled study; vascular endothelial growth factor a; human cell; drug tolerability; angiogenesis inhibitor; cisplatin; doxorubicin; fluorouracil; drug efficacy; nonhuman; antineoplastic agents; capecitabine; gemcitabine; paclitaxel; neoplasms; cell proliferation; mouse; animals; mice; animal tissue; bone marrow cells; mus; carboplatin; apoptosis; ovary cancer; breast cancer; animal experiment; animal model; cyclophosphamide; cytotoxicity; vasculotropin receptor 2; breast neoplasms; mice, inbred balb c; mice, inbred c57bl; vinblastine; docetaxel; irinotecan; sarcoma; endothelial cells; antibodies, monoclonal; drug therapy, combination; tumor burden; stem cell mobilization; melanoma, experimental; stem cells; epirubicin; cellcycle; esophagus cancer; deoxycytidine; angiogenesis inhibitors; chemokine cxcl12; chemosensitization; blocking antibody; carcinoma, lewis lung; monoclonal antibody dc101; stromal cell derived factor 1alpha
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