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Trial reportJournal of veterinary internal medicine

Adjuvant immunotherapy of feline fibrosarcoma with recombinant feline interferon-omega.

Verena Hampel, Bianca Schwarz, Christine Kempf, Roberto Köstlin, Ulrike Schillinger, Helmut Küchenhoff, Nora Fenske, Thomas Brill, Johannes Hirschberger

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Trial report in Journal of veterinary internal medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019
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  6. Interferon-omega: Current status in clinical applications.International immunopharmacology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Verena HampelDepartment of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Veterinary Faculty, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. verena.hampel@web.de
Bianca Schwarz
Christine Kempf
Roberto Köstlin
Ulrike Schillinger
Helmut Küchenhoff
Nora Fenske
Thomas Brill
Johannes Hirschberger
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEKlinikum rechts der Isar · DELMU Klinikum · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRecombinant feline interferon-omega (rFeIFN-omega) was tested as a treatment option for cats with fibrosarcoma to assess safety and feasibility. HYPOTHESIS: Treatment with rFeIFN-omega in cats with fibrosarcoma is safe and feasible. ANIMALS: Twenty domestic cats.

methodsIn an open-labeled uncontrolled clinical trial 12 injections of 1 x 10(6) U/kg rFeIFN-omega were administered over a 5-week period: the 1st through 4th injections were given intratumorally, and the 5th through 12th injections were administered subcutaneously at the tumor excision site. Wide surgical excision of the tumors was carried out after the 4th injection and before the 5th injection of rFeIFN-omega. A Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) analysis was conducted. Flow cytometry of fibrosarcoma cells after incubation with rFeIFN-omega and recombinant feline interferon-gamma was performed to assess the biological effect of rFeIFN-omega.

resultsChanges in blood cell count, increases in serum aspartate-amino-transferase activity, serum bilirubin concentration, serum creatinine and serum electrolyte concentrations, weight loss, anorexia, increased body temperature, and reduced general condition were observed but were mostly minor (grade 1 and 2) and self limiting. Eosinophilia (P = .025), neutropenia (P = .021), and weight loss (P < .001) were statistically correlated with rFeIFN-omega-treatment (analysis of parameters before treatment and after 3 injections of rFeIFN-omega). Flow cytometry of 5 unrelated feline fibrosarcoma cell lines showed increased expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules (P = .026) in response to in vitro incubation with rFeIFN-omega, whereas expression of MHC class II molecules was not affected significantly. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: RFeIFN-omega for the treatment of feline fibrosarcoma is safe, well tolerated, and can be easily performed in practice. To assess the efficacy of the treatment, it should be tested in a placebo-controlled trial.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsCat DiseasesCatsFibrosarcomaHistocompatibility AntigensInterferon-gammaInterferon Type IRecombinant ProteinsAdjuvants, ImmunologicHistocompatibility AntigensInterferon-gammainterferon omega 1Interferon Type IRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18196745
PMCPMC7197455
OpenAlexW2001503306

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