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ArticleVeterinary sciences2025

Exploratory, Randomized, Dose-Response Study of the Anti-PD-L1 Antibody HFC-L1/c4G12 in Dogs with Pulmonary Metastatic Oral Malignant Melanoma.

Kenji Hosoya, Sangho Kim, Ryohei Kinoshita, Naoya Maekawa, Satoru Konnai, Satoshi Takagi, Michihito Tagawa, Yumiko Kagawa, Tatsuya Deguchi, Ryo Owaki and 16 more

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Article in Veterinary sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors.

Kenji HosoyaVeterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan.
Sangho KimVeterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan.
Ryohei KinoshitaVeterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan.
Naoya MaekawaCancer Research Unit, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.
Satoru KonnaiCancer Research Unit, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.
Satoshi TakagiLaboratory of Small Animal Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara 252-5201, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6653-5890
Michihito TagawaVeterinary Medical Center, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro 080-8555, Japan.
Yumiko KagawaNorth Lab, Sapporo 003-0027, Japan.
Tatsuya DeguchiVeterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan.
Ryo OwakiVeterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan.
Yurika TachibanaVeterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan.
Madoka YokokawaVeterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan.
Hiroto TakeuchiDepartment of Disease Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.ORCID 0009-0002-7634-1859
Hayato NakamuraDepartment of Disease Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.
Akinori YamauchiLaboratory of Small Animal Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara 252-5201, Japan.
Ayano KudoLaboratory of Small Animal Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara 252-5201, Japan.ORCID 0009-0000-0632-1903
Shintaro KamoLaboratory of Small Animal Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara 252-5201, Japan.ORCID 0009-0004-5814-0791
Yukinari KatoDepartment of Antibody Drug Development, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5385-8201
Shigeki KanazawaDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.
Tomoyuki AbeDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.
Takuya FurutaDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.
Keiichi YamamotoDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.
Yasuhiko SuzukiDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1313-1494
Tomohiro OkagawaDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1391-9732
Shiro MurataDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2569-899X
Kazuhiko OhashiDepartment of Advanced Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7513-640X

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP223fa627005 and JP25ama121008Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 21K14983, 23K23768, 25K02162, and 25K02163
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral malignant melanoma (OMM) is a highly aggressive malignancy in dogs. The development of effective systemic therapies is urgently required to improve the treatment of canine OMM. Immunotherapy using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has been investigated in canines following their dramatic success in human cancer treatment; however, there is still a need for extensive veterinary clinical studies to clarify and optimize their clinical benefits. Among the ICIs under development for canine cancer immunotherapy, c4G12 (HFC-L1), a canine chimeric anti-PD-L1 antibody, has shown promising efficacy in dogs with pulmonary metastatic OMM in previous clinical studies. However, the optimal dose of HFC-L1/c4G12 has not yet been determined. To explore the dose-response relationship of HFC-L1, a multicenter, randomized clinical study was conducted using three different doses (2, 5, or 10 mg/kg via intravenous infusion every 2 weeks) to treat dogs with pulmonary metastatic OMM (

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canine tumorimmune checkpoint inhibitorimmunotherapymalignant melanomaprogrammed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)

Identifiers

PMID41012775
PMCPMC12474000

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