| Literature DB >> 19460966 |
Kenneth P Olive1, Michael A Jacobetz, Christian J Davidson, Aarthi Gopinathan, Dominick McIntyre, Davina Honess, Basetti Madhu, Mae A Goldgraben, Meredith E Caldwell, David Allard, Kristopher K Frese, Gina Denicola, Christine Feig, Chelsea Combs, Stephen P Winter, Heather Ireland-Zecchini, Stefanie Reichelt, William J Howat, Alex Chang, Mousumi Dhara, Lifu Wang, Felix Rückert, Robert Grützmann, Christian Pilarsky, Kamel Izeradjene, Sunil R Hingorani, Pearl Huang, Susan E Davies, William Plunkett, Merrill Egorin, Ralph H Hruban, Nigel Whitebread, Karen McGovern, Julian Adams, Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, John Griffiths, David A Tuveson.
Abstract
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is among the most lethal human cancers in part because it is insensitive to many chemotherapeutic drugs. Studying a mouse model of PDA that is refractory to the clinically used drug gemcitabine, we found that the tumors in this model were poorly perfused and poorly vascularized, properties that are shared with human PDA. We tested whether the delivery and efficacy of gemcitabine in the mice could be improved by coadministration of IPI-926, a drug that depletes tumor-associated stromal tissue by inhibition of the Hedgehog cellular signaling pathway. The combination therapy produced a transient increase in intratumoral vascular density and intratumoral concentration of gemcitabine, leading to transient stabilization of disease. Thus, inefficient drug delivery may be an important contributor to chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19460966 PMCID： PMC2998180 DOI： 10.1126/science.1171362
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728