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The efficacy of glucan in combination with local radiation therapy was measured using three solid murine tumors of differing abilities to induce a host defense. Using the KHT fibrosarcoma which induces no measurable host defense, glucan did not improve tumor-free survival over radiation alone; the combination produced a marginal improvement in tumor-free survival in animals bearing the highly immunogenic EMT-6 tumor. The most marked improvement in tumor-free survival was found with the mildly immunogenic 6C3HED lymphosarcoma. The efficacy of glucan in combination with BCNU chemotherapy was measured using the disseminated AKR transplantable leukemia; the combination yielded a high level of cures compared to no survival for either agent alone. Using the AKR transplantable leukemia in an F1 model, the effect of amphotericin B (AmB) alone or in combination with BCNU was tested. AmB or BCNU alone had little or no curative effect when tested in (AKR X DBA)F1 mice, but 56% of mice were cured when combined therapy was employed. When tested in (AKR X C57BL)F1 or (AKR X A)F1 mice, a small fraction was cured with AmB alone while about 90% were cured with either BCNU alone or the combination.
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PMID:Preliminary observations on the effect of glucan in combination with radiation and chemotherapy in four murine tumors. 72 4

CAI (NSC 609974; L651582), a new agent that has demonstrated antimetastatic activity in vitro and in vivo, was not very cytotoxic toward EMT-6 mouse mammary carcinoma cells in culture or toward FSaIIC fibrosarcoma cells in vivo. Coexposure of EMT-6 cells to CAI and antitumor alkylating agents under various environmental conditions did not markedly increase the cytotoxicity of cisplatin (CDDP), melphalan, or carmustine (BCNU). However, the combination of CAI and 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide (4-HC) produced much greater than additive killing of EMT-6 cells. CAI also increased the sensitivity of hypoxic EMT-6 cells to X-rays. CAI increased the cytotoxicity of cyclophosphamide toward FSaIIC tumor cells when animals were treated with single doses of both drugs. The effect of CAI on tumor cell killing by cyclophosphamide was greatest at high doses of the antitumor alkylating agent. CAI administration appeared to result in increased serum levels of prostaglandin E2 and leukotriene B4 in animals bearing the Lewis lung tumor. Administration of CAI on days 4-18 did not alter the growth of the Lewis lung carcinoma but did result in an increase in the tumor-growth delay produced by treatment with CDDP, cyclophosphamide, melphalan, BCNU, and fractionated radiation. Although CAI did not reduce the number of lung metastases present in Lewis lung carcinoma-bearing mice on day 20, it did appear to reduce the number of large (vascularized) metastases present on that day.
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PMID:CAI: effects on cytotoxic therapies in vitro and in vivo. 792 63

Tetrahydrocortisol, beta-cyclodextrin tetradecasulfate, and minocycline used alone or in combination are not very cytotoxic toward EMT-6 mouse mammary tumor cells growing in monolayer. Tetrahydrocortisol (100 microM, 24 h) and beta-cyclodextrin tetradecasulfate (100 microM, 24 h) protected EMT-6 cells from the cytotoxicity of CDDP, melphalan, 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide, BCNU, and X-rays under various conditions of oxygenation and pH. Minocycline (100 microM, 24 h) either had no effect upon or was additive with the antitumor alkylating agents or X-rays in cytotoxic activity toward the EMT-6 cells in culture. The combination of the three modulators either had no effect upon or was to a small degree protective against the cytotoxicity of the antitumor alkylating agents or X-rays. The Lewis lung carcinoma was chosen for primary tumor growth-delay studies and tumor lung-metastases studied. Tetrahydrocortisol and beta-cyclodextrin tetradecasulfate were given in a 1:1 molar ratio by continuous infusion over 14 days, and minocycline was given i.p. over 14 days, from day 4 to day 18 post tumor implantation. The combination of tetrahydrocortisol/beta-cyclodextrin tetradecasulfate diminished the tumor growth delay induced by CDDP and melphalan and produced modest increases in the tumor growth delay produced by cyclophosphamide and radiation. Minocycline co-treatment increased the tumor growth delay produced by CDDP, melphalan, radiation, bleomycin, and, especially cyclophosphamide, where 4 of 12 animals receiving minocycline (14 x 5 mg/kg, days 4-18) and cyclophosphamide (3 x 150 mg/kg, days 7, 9, 11) were long-term survivors. The 3 modulators given in combination produced further increases in tumor growth delay with all of the cytotoxic therapies, and 5 of 12 of the animals treated with the 3-modulator combination and cyclophosphamide were long-term survivors. Although neither tetrahydrocortisol/beta-cyclodextrin tetradecasulfate, minocycline, nor the three modulator combination impacted the number of lung metastases, there was a decrease in the number of large lung metastases. Treatment with the cytotoxic therapies alone reduced the number of lung metastases. Addition of the modulators to treatment with the cytotoxic therapies resulted in a further reduction in the number of lung metastases. These results indicate that agents that inhibit the breakdown of the extracellular matrix can be useful additions to the treatment of solid tumors.
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PMID:beta-cyclodextrin tetradecasulfate/tetrahydrocortisol +/- minocycline as modulators of cancer therapies in vitro and in vivo against primary and metastatic Lewis lung carcinoma. 826 4

Treatment of malignant brain tumors with chloroethylnitrosoureas (CENUs) in addition to surgical resection and radiotherapy remains the foundation of glioma therapy. However, the clinical response to CENUs is at best modest. A novel analogue of nitrosoureas, 2-chloroethyl-3-sarcosinamide-1-nitrosourea (SarCNU), as compared to the standard CENU, 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), has been demonstrated to have increased anticancer effects both in vitro and in vivo. Unfortunately, many human tumors have been known to be resistant to CENUs since they express DNA repair protein O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT). In order to assess whether SarCNU has an effect on MGMT positive tumors, we evaluated its antitumor efficacy using an MGMT positive human glioma (SF-767) nude mouse xenograft model. Since SF-767 has high MGMT levels, BCNU treatment (20 mg/kg, Q4D x 3 i.p.) alone did not result in a satisfactory anticancer effect (p > 0.05). As expected, O6-benzylguanine (O6-BG) (100 mg/kg), which was given prior to BCNU treatment, by depleting MGMT activity, significantly enhanced BCNU antitumor efficacy (p < 0.001). Moreover, SarCNU treatment (167 mg/kg, Q4D x 3 i.p.) alone had a better antitumor effect than O6-BG plus BCNU treatment (F = 51.7, p = 0.0004). However, in this xenograft model, O6-BG did not significantly enhance the anticancer efficacy of SarCNU (F = 0.8, p = 0.411). The SF-767 human glioma xenograft is positive for extraneuronal monoamine transporter EMT (EMT) as determined by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Our present results suggest that SarCNU is also effective for MGMT positive tumor if they exhibit EMT.
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PMID:Antitumor efficacy of SarCNU in a human glioma xenograft model expressing both MGMT and extraneuronal monoamine transporter. 1134 76

Lisofylline, a dimethylxanthine derivative, has been shown to block the induction of hematopoietic growth inhibitors produced in response to cytotoxic anticancer therapy. In the current study, mice bearing established EMT-6 mammary carcinoma were treated with high dose cyclophosphamide, melphalan, BCNU, 5-fluorouracil or with total body radiation alone or with peripheral blood cells. The effect of lisofylline and/or G-CSF on leukocyte recovery was examined. Lisofylline was as effective as G-CSF in accelerating the recovery of white blood cells and granulocytes after treatment with high dose chemotherapy or total body radiation. Lisofylline alone or along with G-CSF was effective in protecting animals from the weight loss caused by high dose melphalan but not from weight loss caused by other cytotoxic therapies. Administration of lisofylline did not alter the killing of bone marrow CFU-GM by single doses of cyclophosphamide, melphalan or BCNU. However, administration of lisofylline increased the killing of EMT-6 tumor cells taken from the same animals. Administration of lisofylline had no effect on EMT-6 tumor growth. However, treatment with lisofylline along with high dose cyclophosphamide: melphalan, BCNU or 5-fluorouracil significantly increased the tumor growth delay produced by these agents. Overall, in the high dose therapy/EMT-6 mammary carcinoma model, lisofylline selectively enhanced hematopoietic recovery and increased tumor response to cytotoxic therapy.
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PMID:Lisofylline as an adjuvant to high dose cytotoxic therapy. 2152 10

The nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs that inhibit cyclooxygenase block the formation of prostanoids in vivo. These agents may be useful as modulators of cytotoxic anticancer therapies. EMT-6 mouse mammary carcinoma cells growing in culture were exposed for 1 h or 24 h to eleven different nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents or acetaminophen. None of these drugs was very cytotoxic. A concentration of 50muM of the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs or acetaminophen was chosen for modulator combination studies with the antitumor alkylating agents CDDP, L-PAM, BCNU and 4-HC in cell culture. Several of the modulators protected the EMT-6 cells from the cytotoxicity of the antitumor alkylating agents; however, diflunisal, sulindac, indomethacin, acetaminophen and in some cases ibuprofen and tolmetin were positive modulators of the antitumor alkylating agents under the cell culture conditions tested. EMT-6 tumor cell survival studies and bone marrow CFU-GM survival studies were carried out with seven of the modulators and various doses of cyclophosphamide. Tolmetin, ibuprofen, sulindac, piroxicam and diflunisal in combination with cyclophosphamide produced increased tumor cell killing compared with cyclophosphamide alone without marked changes in toxicity to the bone marrow derived CFU-GM. In EMT-6 tumor growth delay experiments, none of the six modulators tested affected the growth of the tumors; however, tolmetin, ibuprofen, diflunisal and sulindac increased the tumor growth delay obtained with standard dose-schedules of cyclophosphamide or CDDP. When minocycline, a collagenase inhibitor, was added to treatment regimens including diflunisal or sulindac and either cyclophosphamide, CDDP or L-PAM further increases in tumor growth delay were obtained especially when L-PAM was the cytotoxic therapeutic agent. The number of lung metastases and the percentage lung metastases with diameters >3 mm were reduced by treatment with the modulator combinations alone and further reduced with the addition of the antitumor alkylating agents. These results indicate that agents which inhibit signaling pathways among tumor cells and between tumor cells and normal cells can be useful additions to cytotoxic therapies.
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PMID:Cyclooxygenase inhibitors - invitro and invivo effects on antitumor alkylating-agents in the emt-6 murine mammary-carcinoma. 2157 28