ArticleExperimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie2016
Minocycline, a putative neuroprotectant, co-administered with doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide chemotherapy in a xenograft model of triple-negative breast cancer.
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- Effect of minocycline on changes in affective behaviors, cognitive function, and inflammation in breast cancer survivors undergoing chemotherapy: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2024Trial
- Mechanistic insights and therapeutic interventions of mitochondrial quality control in chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment.Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Review
- Phosphocreatine Mitigates Doxorubicin-Induced Neurotoxicity in Rats by Regulating Mitochondrial Function and Apoptosis via the NF-κB/PGC-1α Pathway.Neuromolecular medicine · 2025Article
- Rapamycin prevents cyclophosphamide-induced ovarian follicular loss and potentially inhibits tumour proliferation in a breast cancer xenograft mouse model.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Minocycline as a prospective therapeutic agent for cancer and non-cancer diseases: a scoping review.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2024Article
- Minocycline induced apoptosis and suppressed expression of matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 in the breast cancer MCF-7 cells.Molecular biology reports · 2024Article
- Epigenomic Profiling Advises Therapeutic Potential of Leukotriene Receptor Inhibitors for a Subset of Triple-Negative Breast Tumors.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- A Drug Screening Reveals Minocycline Hydrochloride as a Therapeutic Option to Prevent Breast Cancer Cells Extravasation across the Blood-Brain Barrier.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- Chemobrain in Breast Cancer: Mechanisms, Clinical Manifestations, and Potential Interventions.Drug safety · 2022Review
- Animal models of chemotherapy-induced cognitive decline in preclinical drug development.Psychopharmacology · 2021Review
- Oxidative Stress and Cognitive Alterations Induced by Cancer Chemotherapy Drugs: A Scoping Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Minocycline is purported to have neuroprotective properties in experimental models of some human neurologic diseases, and has therefore been identified as a putative neuroprotectant for chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment (CICI) in breast cancer patients. However, because its mechanism of action is believed to be mediated through anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic, and anti-oxidant pathways, co-administration of minocycline with chemotherapeutic agents has the potential to reduce the efficacy of anticancer drugs. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of minocycline on the activity of the AC chemotherapeutic regimen (Adriamycin [doxorubicin], Cytoxan [cyclophosphamide]) in in vitro and in vivo models of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Clonogenic and methylthiazol tetrazolium (MTT) assays were used to assess survival and viability in two TNBC cell lines treated with increasing concentrations of AC in the presence or absence of minocycline. Biomarkers of apoptosis, cell stress, and DNA damage were evaluated by western blot. The in vivo effects of AC and minocycline, each alone and in combination, were assessed in a xenograft model of TNBC in female athymic nude mice by weekly tumor volume measurement, body and organ weight measurement, and histopathology. Apoptosis and proliferation were characterized by immunohistochemistry in the xenografts tumors. Brains from tumor-bearing mice were evaluated for microglial activation, glial scars, and the proportion of neural progenitor cells. Data from these in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrate that minocycline does not diminish the cytotoxic and tumor-suppressive effects of this chemotherapeutic drug combination in TNBC cells. Moreover, minocycline appeared to prevent the reduction in doublecortin-positive neural progenitor cells observed in AC-treated mice. We posit that minocycline may be useful clinically for its reported neuroprotective activity in breast cancer patients receiving AC without loss of chemotherapeutic efficacy.
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