Enhanced antitumor activity of a combination of <i>MBD2</i>‐antisense electrotransfer gene therapy and bleomycin electrochemotherapy
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: MBD2 is a methylated DNA-binding protein that has been previously suggested to have transcriptional silencing as well as DNA demethylase activities. We have previously shown that electrotransfer of an MBD2-antisense encoding plasmid inhibits tumor growth in vivo. In this study we tested whether a combination of MBD2-antisense gene therapy and bleomycin chemotherapy has an augmented antitumor effect in comparison with either monotherapy. METHODS: Mice bearing human non-small-cell lung carcinoma line H1299 xenoplants were treated with electrotransfer of either bleomycin or MBD2-antisense expression plasmid or a combination of both therapies and tumor growth following treatment was monitored. RESULTS: A combination of electrotransfer of MBD2-antisense and bleomycin electrochemotherapy has an additive inhibitory effect on the rate of tumor growth and a synergistic effect on the number of tumor-free animals when compared with either monotherapy. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that a combination of MBD2-antisense electrotransfer gene therapy and chemotherapy with bleomycin is a candidate new approach to anticancer therapy.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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