Injecting kenpaullone into the middle ear protected both mice and rats
from cisplatin - induced hearing loss.
Zuo and colleagues identified multiple compounds that protected cochlear cells
from cisplatin, several of which are already approved to treat other conditions.
Not exact matches
A team of researchers led by Dr. Jian Zuo screened over 4,000 drugs for their ability to protect cochlear cells
from the chemotherapy agent
cisplatin.
In the case of
cisplatin - induced hearing loss, kenpaullone appears to protect hair cells by preventing CDK2
from stimulating the production of toxic reactive oxygen species
from the cells» mitochondria.
Moreover, use of the gel led to significantly lower levels of
cisplatin in liver tissue 5 centimetres away
from the cancer, and in the kidneys.
The researchers then compared tumor cells isolated
from multiple different breast cancer patients and found that cells expressing lower amounts of Numb - 1 and -2 were more resistant to the chemotherapy agent
cisplatin.
Patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer benefit most
from necitumumab added to gemcitabine and
cisplatin chemotherapy, according to a subgroup analysis
from the SQUIRE trial presented today at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
In the current work we used adenoviral - type 5 (dE1 / E3)(Cytomegalovirus promoter) with human ABCA10 transgene (Ad - h - ABCA10) purchased
from Vector Labs ® in order to investigate whether gene therapy can be used as a pre-treatment to enhance the efficiency of inhaled
cisplatin.
Aerosol administration was performed as follows, the residual cup was filled with 8mls of the
cisplatin agent and the nebulisation time was 10 minutes (almost 1 ml / minute) as observed
from our previous studies.14 The aerosol was delivered to the mice (one by one) within a nose only cage that has been previously presented.34 In the groups receiving the intratumoral
cisplatin an insulin injection was used to deliver the 2mls of
cisplatin within the tumor in different depths, however; a quantity of the drug when the injection was made superficially was lost since it was not accumulated.
The chemotherapy drug was obtained
from our Lung Cancer Oncology Unit; i)
Cisplatin / Hospira ® 100mg / ml ONCO - TAINTM.
The limitations of the chemo beads Although
cisplatin beads are often effective at preventing or slowing the cancer
from coming back, they do not prevent spreading (metastasis), e.g. to the lungs.
Cisplatin is then slowly released
from the beads, which are reabsorbed by the body over 4 - 6 weeks.