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ArticleLeukemia research2015

Perturbation of cellular oxidative state induced by dichloroacetate and arsenic trioxide for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

Ashkan Emadi, Mariola Sadowska, Brandon Carter-Cooper, Vishal Bhatnagar, Isabella van der Merwe, Mark J Levis, Edward A Sausville, Rena G Lapidus

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Article in Leukemia research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Dichloroacetate for Cancer Treatment: Some Facts and Many Doubts.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ashkan EmadiUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: aemadi@umm.edu.
Mariola SadowskaUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Brandon Carter-CooperUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Vishal BhatnagarUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Isabella van der MerweUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Mark J LevisDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Edward A SausvilleUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Rena G LapidusUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
University of Maryland, Baltimore · USUniversity of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer CenterSidney Kimmel Cancer Center · US

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTERSUPPORT GRANTP30CA134274 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI FEYRUZ VIRGILIA RASSOOL · 2008 to 2026
$51.0M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN HEMATOLOGYT32HL007525 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ROBERT A BRODSKY · 1985 to 2026
$6.2M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA134274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incidence of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is rising and the outcome of current therapy, which has not changed significantly in the last 40 years, is suboptimal. Cellular oxidative state is a credible target to selectively eradicate AML cells, because it is a fundamental property of each cell that is sufficiently different between leukemic and normal cells, yet its aberrancy shared among different AML cells. To this end, we tested whether a short-time treatment of AML cells, including cells with FLT3-ITD mutation, with sub-lethal dose of dichloroacetate (DCA) (priming) followed by pharmacologic dose of arsenic trioxide (ATO) in presence of low-dose DCA could produce insurmountable level of oxidative damage that kill AML cells. Using cellular cytotoxicity, apoptotic and metabolic assays with both established AML cell lines and primary AML cells, we found that priming with DCA significantly potentiated the cytotoxicity of ATO in AML cells in a synergistic manner. The combination decreased the mitochondrial membrane potential as well as expression of Mcl-1 and GPx in primary AML cells more than either drug alone. One patient with AML whose disease was refractory to several lines of prior treatments was treated with this combination, and tolerated it well. These data suggest that targeting cellular redox balance in leukemia may provide a therapeutic option for AML patients with relapsed/refractory disease.

Indexed as

Oxidative StressArsenicalsArsenic TrioxideCell Line, TumorDichloroacetic AcidHumansLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteOxidesArsenicalsArsenic TrioxideDichloroacetic AcidOxidesAMLAntioxidantsGlycolysisMitochondriaOxidative stress

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PMID25982179
PMCPMC7310114
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