title: Experimental evidence for killing the resistant cells and raising the efficacy and decreasing the toxicity of cytostatics and irradiation by mixtures of the agents of the passive antitumor defense system in the case of various tumor and normal cell lines in vitro.
abstract: Despite the substantial decline of the immune system in AIDS, only a few kinds of tumors increase in incidence. This shows that the immune system has no absolute role in the prevention of tumors. Therefore, the fact that tumors do not develop in the majority of the population during their lifetime indicates the existence of other defense system(s). According to our hypothesis, the defense is made by certain substances of the circulatory system. Earlier, on the basis of this hypothesis, we experimentally selected 16 substances of the circulatory system and demonstrated that the mixture of them (called active mixture) had a cytotoxic effect (inducing apoptosis) in vitro and in vivo on different tumor cell lines, but not on normal cells and animals. In this paper, we provide evidence that different cytostatic drugs or irradiation in combination with the active mixture killed significantly more cancer cells, compared with either treatments alone. The active mixture decreased, to a certain extent, the toxicity of cytostatics and irradiation on normal cells, but the most important result was that the active mixture destroyed the multidrug-resistant cells. Our results provide the possibility to improve the efficacy and reduce the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy and to prevent the relapse by killing the resistant cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry, University of Pécs Medical School, Szigeti u.12, Pécs, Hungary. gyula.kulcsar@aok.pte.hu
authors.forename: Gyula
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kulcsár
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002460:Cell Line; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016685:Mitomycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D008942:Mitoxantrone / Q000494:pharmacology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D051381:Rats; D012008:Recurrence; D014747:Vinblastine / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D016685:Mitomycin; D014747:Vinblastine; D008942:Mitoxantrone