Lani
05-18-2006, 12:14 PM
ABSTRACT: Zoledronic Acid (Zometa®) Enhances the Cytotoxic Effect of Gemcitabine and Fluvastatin: In vitro Isobologram Studies with Conventional and Nonconventional Cytotoxic Agents [Oncology; Subscribe; Sample]
Objectives: To identify synergistic combinations of clinically available agents with zoledronic acid which would enhance antitumor activity as measured by median effect isobologram analysis and apoptosis assays in vitro.
Methods: The interaction of zoledronic acid as a doublet with either carboplatin, cisplatin, 5'DFUR, docetaxel, epirubicin, fluvastatin, gemcitabine, imatinib, paclitaxel, trastuzumab, or vinorelbine was studied in a 72-hour in vitro system using defined human cancer cell lines grown as a monolayer in exponential phase. Drug effect on growth was measured by a standard MTT assay. Median effect isobologram analysis was applied to the results to determine the presence of synergism, additive effects, or antagonism of drug combinations. Synergistic combinations were also assayed by a cytoplasmic histone-associated DNA fragmentation apoptosis assay to verify that the effect was not cytostatic.
Results: Zoledronic acid with gemcitabine demonstrated global cytotoxic synergy across 7 of 8 cell lines. Clinically achievable concentrations of fluvastatin with zoledronic acid also demonstrated synergy in 7 of 8 cell lines. All the breast cancer cell lines were sensitive. Zoledronic acid and epirubicin were antagonistic in all 4 breast cell lines studied.
Conclusions: Combinations of zoledronic acid with either gemcitabine or fluvastatin may have a therapeutic role in treatment of bone metastasis of selected malignancies.
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Will go back and check to see which breast cancer cell lines this was done inbut as I recall several of the 7 cell cancer lines were her2+ --just something to think about when trying to chose your treatment. As the study is done in a petri dish it may not turn out to work in people, but the studies done by Dr Pegram looking for what combinations worked well with Herceptin have general worked well in people.
Objectives: To identify synergistic combinations of clinically available agents with zoledronic acid which would enhance antitumor activity as measured by median effect isobologram analysis and apoptosis assays in vitro.
Methods: The interaction of zoledronic acid as a doublet with either carboplatin, cisplatin, 5'DFUR, docetaxel, epirubicin, fluvastatin, gemcitabine, imatinib, paclitaxel, trastuzumab, or vinorelbine was studied in a 72-hour in vitro system using defined human cancer cell lines grown as a monolayer in exponential phase. Drug effect on growth was measured by a standard MTT assay. Median effect isobologram analysis was applied to the results to determine the presence of synergism, additive effects, or antagonism of drug combinations. Synergistic combinations were also assayed by a cytoplasmic histone-associated DNA fragmentation apoptosis assay to verify that the effect was not cytostatic.
Results: Zoledronic acid with gemcitabine demonstrated global cytotoxic synergy across 7 of 8 cell lines. Clinically achievable concentrations of fluvastatin with zoledronic acid also demonstrated synergy in 7 of 8 cell lines. All the breast cancer cell lines were sensitive. Zoledronic acid and epirubicin were antagonistic in all 4 breast cell lines studied.
Conclusions: Combinations of zoledronic acid with either gemcitabine or fluvastatin may have a therapeutic role in treatment of bone metastasis of selected malignancies.
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Will go back and check to see which breast cancer cell lines this was done inbut as I recall several of the 7 cell cancer lines were her2+ --just something to think about when trying to chose your treatment. As the study is done in a petri dish it may not turn out to work in people, but the studies done by Dr Pegram looking for what combinations worked well with Herceptin have general worked well in people.