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Authors: Arnhold S.¹; Hilgers M.¹; Lenartz D.²; Semkova I.³; Kochanek S.³; Voges J.²; Andressen C.²; Addicks K.¹

Source: Cell Transplantation, Volume 12, Number 8, 2003 , pp. 827-837(11)

Publisher: Cognizant Communication Corporation

Abstract:

Conventional therapeutical approaches such as surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy have been shown to be rather unsuccessful in the treatment of infiltrative growing tumors such as the malignant glioblastoma multiforme. Thus, new therapeutical strategies have to be developed that are suitable for inducing cell death also in migrating tumor cells. These new therapeutical stategies include cell and/or gene therapeutical approaches. We demonstrate that glial-restricted progenitor cells as well as embryonic stem cell-derived neural stem cells belong to cell populations applicable to such therapeutical concepts. Both cell types can be efficiently transduced using a third-generation high-capacity “gutless” adenoviral vector, and show a tropism for the F98 glioma cells by migrating towards a spheroid of F98 glioma cells with a tendency to form a barrier around the tumor spheroid in an in vitro tumor confrontation model. Moreover, in a migration assay, secretion products of glial-restricted precursor cells have shown a potency to inhibit the migratory activity of glioma cells in vitro. In vivo, F98 glioma cell-derived tumor formation in the right striatum resulted in migration of glial as well as neural precursor cells towards the tumor area when cotransplanted in the corpus callosum of the contralateral hemisphere. After arrival, both cell types surround the tumor mass and even invade the experimentally induced tumor. These data indicate that glial-restricted as well as embryonic stem cell-derived neural precursor cells are good candidates as carriers for an ex vivo gene therapeutical approach in tumor therapy.

Keywords: Glial-restricted precursor cells; Embryonic stem cells; High-capacity adenoviral vector; F98 glioma cells

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: *Department of Anatomy I, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann Str. 9, 50931 Köln, Germany 2: ‡Clinic for Stereotaxy and Functional Neurosurgery, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann Str. 9, 50931 Köln, Germany 3: †Center for Molecular Medicine (ZMMK), University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann Str. 9, 50931 Köln, Germany

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Neural Precursor Cells as Carriers for a Gene Therapeutical Approach in Tumor Therapy