Adenovirus-mediated gene therapy in an experimental model of breast cancer metastatic to the brain

Human Gene Therapy
A ColakH D Shine

Abstract

We investigated the therapeutic efficacy of adenovirus-mediated gene therapy to treat malignant mammary tumors in vitro and in vivo in the brain. A mammary adenocarcinoma cell line derived from Fischer rats (13762 MAT B III; MAT-B) was used. In vitro studies demonstrated that the MAT-B cells could be efficiently transduced with a replication-defective adenovirus (ADV) vector that carried the herpes simplex virus gene for thymidine kinase (ADV-tk), and that ADV-tk transduction rendered the MAT-B cells sensitive to killing, in a dose-dependent manner, with ganciclovir (GCV). An animal model of a mammary tumor metastatic to the brain was produced by injecting MAT-B cells into the caudate nucleus of Fischer rats. Seven days after MAT-B cell injection, when the tumors were approximately 5 mm2 in cross-sectional size, the tumors were injected with ADV-tk or a control adenovirus vector containing the beta-galactosidase (beta-Gal) gene (ADV-beta gal). After vector injection the animals were treated with GCV or with saline for 6 days. Sixteen days after tumor cell injection, the brains were examined histologically. The rats that were injected with ADV-beta gal and treated with GCV or saline, and those that were injected with ADV-tk and ...Continue Reading

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