Chalcone JAI-51 improves efficacy of synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy of brain tumors.
Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT), a preclinical form of radiosurgery, uses spatially fractionated micrometre-wide synchrotron-generated X-ray beams. As MRT alone is predominantly palliative for animal tumors, the effects of the combination of MRT and a newly synthesized chemotherapeutic agent JAI-51 on 9L gliosarcomas have been evaluated. Fourteen days (D14) after implantation (D0), intracerebral 9LGS-bearing rats received either MRT, JAI-51 or both treatments. JAI-51, alone or immediately after MRT, was administered three times per week. Animals were kept up to ∼20 weeks after irradiation or sacrificed at D16 or D28 after treatment for cell cycle analysis. MRT plus JAI-51 increased significantly the lifespan compared with MRT alone (p = 0.0367). JAI-51 treatment alone had no effect on rat survival. MRT alone or associated with JAI-51 induced a cell cycle blockade in G2/M (p < 0.01) while the combined treatment also reduced the proportion of G0/G1 cells. At D28 after irradiation, MRT and MRT/JAI-51 had a smaller cell blockade effect in the G2/M phase owing to a significant increase in tumor cell death rate (<2c) and a proportional increase of endoreplicative cells (>8c). The combination of MRT and JAI-51 increases the survival of 9LGS-bearing rats by inducing endoreduplication of DNA and tumor cell death; further, it slowed the onset of tumor growth resumption two weeks after treatment.
INSERM, U836, F-38043 Grenoble, France.
Audrey
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Bouchet
Ahcene
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Boumendjel
Enam
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Khalil
Raphael
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Serduc
Elke
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Bräuer
Erik Albert
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Siegbahn
Jean A
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Laissue
Jean
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Boutonnat
D000818:Animals; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery*; D047188:Chalcones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018316:Gliosarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D016634:Radiosurgery; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D017356:Synchrotrons; D014404:Tubulin / Q000187:drug effects
D047188:Chalcones; C545474:JAI-51; D014404:Tubulin