Antineoplastic drug NSC631570 inhibits C6 glioma growth in rats through the re-education of tumorassociated microglia

14^th Asia Pacific Oncologists Annual Meeting

November 20-22, 2017 Melbourne, Australia

Larysa Skivka, Mariia Rudyk, Ievgenia Opeida, Vitalina Svyatetska, Kateryna Stepura, Niccola Funel, Ascold Nowicky and Wassil Nowick

Taras Sevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
University of Pisa, Italy
Ukrainian Anticancer Institute, Austria

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Cancer Sci Ther

Abstract :

Glioblastoma (GB) is one of the most devastating and fatal tumors. Therapeutic approaches targeting tumor cells have failed. GB is heavily infiltrated with myeloid cells that are collectively referred to as glioma-associated microglia/macrophages or GAM. GAM acquires the alternative, pro-invasive phenotype and creates favorable conditions for disease progression. GAM re-education seems to be an attractive therapeutic approach to GM treatment. NSC631570 is an anticancer agent that influences phagocyte migration and functional polarization. This study was aimed to investigate the effect of NSC631570 on C6 glioma growth in rats and microglia metabolic profile in vitro and in vivo. For tumor-associated hypoxia induction experiments, the rat microglial cells were treated under either normoxia (21% O2) or hypoxia (3% O2) for 48 hours in vitro. Intracranial drug delivery device was developed for the local treatment of glioma-bearing rats with NSC631570. Tumorbearing animals received seven intracranial injections of the drug at 3 days interval starting from the second day after C6 cell transplantation. NSC631570 re-polarized hypoxic microglia to pro-inflammatory metabolic profile in vitro. The treatment of tumor-bearing rats with NSC631570 was associated with prolongation of their life by 18%. This effect was accompanied by the increase in the number of phagocytizing CD14+ cells in the microglia fraction without the alteration in their endocytosis intensity. The frequency of CD206+ cells was moderately increased in the fraction of both CD14+ and CD14-microglial cells. Oxidative metabolism of GAM was moderately down-regulated by the drug. Intracranial introduction of the preparation was associated with the sharp increase of NO generation by microglial cells. Locally introduced NSC631570 can re-educate GAM. This repolarizing effect is associated with moderate tumor growth inhibition and might be considered as an important part of the mechanism of tumor-inhibiting action of the drug.

Biography :

Larysa Skivka has completed her PhD from RE Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology, NAS of Ukraine and Postdoctoral studies from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Currently she is a Professor of the Educational and Scientific Centre, Institute of Biology and Medicine of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Her area of scientific activity includes immunomodulation as a component of adjuvant cancer therapy, functional polarization of phagocytes in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases.