A novel nanodelivery system for combination tumor therapy
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Eavarone, David A. (David Alan)
Advisor(s)
Ram Sasisekharan.
Date Issued
2004
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Anti-angiogenic therapy offers many benefits over traditional cytotoxic chemotherapy including fewer toxic side effects and the reduced development of drug resistance. Anti-angiogenics alone have not proven effective in inducing tumor regression in the clinic due to both the cytostatic nature of anti-angiogenic therapy and the potential formation of new regions of hypoxia within the tumor after therapy. The new therapeutic paradigm is for combining both anti-angiogenics and traditional cytotoxic agents for a synergistic effect. The efficacy of cytotoxic agents may be reduced after anti-angiogenic therapy, however, due to limited access to tumor vasculature and hypoxia-induced drug resistance. We propose that loading cytotoxic agents within the tumor prior to blood vessel collapse will enable both greater drug accumulation within the tumor as well as a reduction in the formation of therapy-induced regions of hypoxia. We present here a novel nanodelivery vehicle termed a 'nanocell' for the spatio-temporal recruitment of both anti-angiogenics and cytotoxic agents within the solid tumor to achieve this goal. Nanocells consist of a polymeric nanocore encapsulating the cytostatic agent doxorubicin surrounded by a lipid vesicle containing the anti-angiogenic agent combretastatin A4.
(cont.) Nanocell treatment resulted in an 88% reduction in tumor size in vivo, compared to a 66% reduction in tumor size after delivering combretastatin A4 lipid vesicles and doxorubicin nanocores simultaneously but separately. Nanocell treatment also resulted in a significant reduction in systemic toxicity, fewer metastases to the lung and liver, and a greater degree of tumor apoptosis.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biological Engineering Division, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-38).
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Biological Engineering Division.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
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