scholarly journals Retracted: Tumor Tropism of Intravenously Injected Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Stem Cells and Their Gene Therapy Application in a Metastatic Breast Cancer Model

Stem Cells ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1021-1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yang ◽  
Dang Hoang Lam ◽  
Sally Sallee Goh ◽  
Esther Xingwei Lee ◽  
Ying Zhao ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 829-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margit Maria Janát-Amsbury ◽  
James W Yockman ◽  
Minhyung Lee ◽  
Steven Kern ◽  
Darin Y Furgeson ◽  
...  


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumei Luo ◽  
Xuehu Xu ◽  
Xiuli An ◽  
Xiaofang Sun ◽  
Shu Wang ◽  
...  

The human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) provides a breakthrough approach that helps overcoming ethical and allergenic challenges posed in application of neural stem cells (NSCs) in targeted cancer gene therapy. However, the tumor-tropic capacity of hiPSC-derived NSCs (hiPS-NSCs) still has much room to improve. Here we attempted to promote the tumor tropism of hiPS-NSCs by manipulating the activity of endogenous miR-199a/214 cluster that is involved in regulation of hypoxia-stimulated cell migration. We first developed a baculovirus-delivered CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) system that sterically blocked the E-box element in the promoter of the miR-199a/214 cluster with an RNA-guided catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9). We then applied this CRISPRi system to hiPS-NSCs and successfully suppressed the expression of miR-199a-5p, miR-199a-3p, and miR-214 in the microRNA gene cluster. Meanwhile, the expression levels of their targets related to regulation of hypoxia-stimulated cell migration, such as HIF1A, MET, and MAPK1, were upregulated. Further migration assays demonstrated that the targeted inhibition of the miR-199a/214 cluster significantly enhanced the tumor tropism of hiPS-NSCs both in vitro and in vivo. These findings suggest a novel application of CRISPRi in NSC-based tumor-targeted gene therapy.





2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1086-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anish Sen Majumdar ◽  
Alya Zolotorev ◽  
Sara Samuel ◽  
Kimvan Tran ◽  
Beth Vertin ◽  
...  


PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. e44433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Helle ◽  
Elsa Cassette ◽  
Lina Bezdetnaya ◽  
Thomas Pons ◽  
Agnès Leroux ◽  
...  


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-265
Author(s):  
Heli Savolainen ◽  
Alessia Volpe ◽  
Alkystis Phinikaridou ◽  
Michael Douek ◽  
Gilbert Fruhwirth ◽  
...  


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Roda ◽  
Fabrizio De Luca ◽  
Carmine Di Iorio ◽  
Daniela Ratto ◽  
Stella Siciliani ◽  
...  

Although medicinal mushroom extracts have been proposed as promising anti-cancer agents, their precise impacts on metastatic breast cancer are still to be clarified. For this purpose, the present study exploited the effect of a novel medicinal mushroom blend, namely Micotherapy U-care, in a 4T1 triple-negative mouse breast cancer model. Mice were orally administered with Micotherapy U-care, consisting of a mixture of Agaricus blazei, Ophiocordyceps sinensis, Ganoderma lucidum, Grifola frondosa, and Lentinula edodes. The syngeneic tumor-bearing mice were generated by injecting 4T1 cells in both supplemented and non-supplemented mice. After sacrifice 35 days later, specific endpoints and pathological outcomes of the murine pulmonary tissue were evaluated. (i) Histopathological and ultrastructural analysis and (ii) immunohistochemical assessment of TGF-ß1, IL-6 and NOS2, COX2, SOD1 as markers of inflammation and oxidative stress were performed. The QoL was comparatively evaluated. Micotherapy U-care supplementation, starting before 4T1 injection and lasting until the end of the experiment, dramatically reduced the pulmonary metastases density, also triggering a decrease of fibrotic response, and reducing IL-6, NOS, and COX2 expression. SOD1 and TGF-ß1 results were also discussed. These findings support the valuable potential of Micotherapy U-care as adjuvant therapy in the critical management of triple-negative breast cancer.



2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar M. Rashid ◽  
Masayuki Nagahashi ◽  
Subramaniam Ramachandran ◽  
Sheldon Milstien ◽  
Sarah Spiegel ◽  
...  




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