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Vascular-targeted agents for the treatment of angiosarcoma

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:11 authored by R J Young, P J Woll, C A Staton, Malcolm ReedMalcolm Reed, N J Brown
Purpose: Angiosarcomas are rare, aggressive vascular tumours known to express vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key pro-angiogenic growth factor. The aim of this study was to determine the potential effects of vascular-targeted agents for the treatment of angiosarcoma, using two human cutaneous angiosarcoma cell lines (ASM and ISO-HAS), and human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HuDMECs) for comparison. Methods: Protein arrays were used to assess the expression of angiogenesis-related proteins, and potential drug targets were assessed by ELISA and Western blotting. Response to vascular-targeted agents, including bevacizumab an anti-VEGF antibody, axitinib a VEGF-receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, everolimus an mTOR inhibitor, selumetinib a MEK inhibitor and vadimezan a vascular-disrupting agent were compared in functional in vitro cellular assays, including viability, differentiation and migration assays. Results: ASM and ISO-HAS cells expressed a broad range of pro-angiogenic growth factors. ASM and ISO-HAS VEGF expression was significantly increased (p = 0.029) compared with HuDMECs. Striking responses were seen to vadimezan with an IC50 of 90 and 150 µg/ml for ASM and ISO-HAS cells, respectively. Selumetinib inhibited ASM with an IC50 of 1,750 ng/ml, but was not effective in ISO-HAS. Everolimus reduced both ASM and ISO-HAS viable cell counts by 20 % (p < 0.001). Minimal responses were observed to bevacizumab and axitinib in assays with ASM and ISO-HAS cells. Conclusions: Further studies are warranted to investigate mTOR inhibitors, MEK inhibitors and vascular-disrupting agents for the treatment of angiosarcoma. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.

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  • Published

Journal

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

ISSN

0344-5704

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Issue

2

Volume

73

Page range

259-270

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  • BSMS Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-11-18

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