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ArticleCancer science2020

Soluble Vegfr3 gene therapy suppresses multi-organ metastasis in a mouse mammary cancer model.

Masa-Aki Shibata, Eiko Shibata, Yoshihisa Tanaka, Chinatsu Shiraoka, Yoichi Kondo

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Article in Cancer science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 authors.

Masa-Aki ShibataDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3350-7305
Eiko ShibataDepartment of Molecular Innovation in Lipidology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan.
Yoshihisa TanakaDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan.
Chinatsu ShiraokaDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan.
Yoichi KondoDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan.

Funding

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan 21591682
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulating evidence on the association of VEGF-C with lymphangiogenesis and lymph node metastasis implicates lymphatic vessels as a potential target in anti-cancer therapy. To evaluate whether blocking VEGF-C and VEGFR-3 signaling can inhibit multi-organ metastases, a mouse metastatic mammary cancer model was subjected to gene therapy using a soluble VEGFR-3 expression vector (psVEGFR-3). We showed that psVEGFR-3 significantly diminished cell growth in vitro with or without added VEGF-C, and significantly reduced primary tumor growth and tumor metastases to wide-spectrum organs in vivo. Although apoptotic cell death and angiogenesis levels did not differ between the control and psVEGFR-3 groups, cell proliferation and lymphangiogenesis in the mammary tumors were significantly decreased in the psVEGFR-3 group. Furthermore, lymphatic vessel invasion was significantly inhibited in this group. Real-time RT-PCR analysis revealed significantly high expression of the Vegfr3 gene due to gene therapy, and the transcriptional levels of Pcna and Lyve1 tended to decrease in the psVEGFR-3 group. Immunofluorescence staining indicated that phospho-tyrosine expression was considerably lower in tumor cells of psVEGFR-3-treated mammary carcinomas than those of control tumors. Double immunofluorescence staining indicated that phospho-tyrosine

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AnimalsCell Line, TumorFemaleGenetic TherapyLymphatic VesselsMammary Glands, AnimalMammary Neoplasms, ExperimentalMiceNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisVascular Endothelial Growth Factor CVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor CVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3anti-metastasisantitumormammary cancermulti-organ metastasissoluble VEGFR-3

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PMID32539229
PMCPMC7419054

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