Abstract
Historically, osteosarcoma has been a problematic metastatic disease, with 40-80% of patients developing pulmonary metastasis after primary tumor resection. Recent treatment advancements have reduced the occurrence of metastatic lesions to less than 30%. Using attenuated Salmonella typhimurium, we previously demonstrated regression in tumor burden in murine solid tumor and metastatic models. We established a murine model for metastatic osteosarcoma to determine the effect of treatment with a single oral dose of attenuated S. typhimurium with (SalpIL2) and without (Sal-NG) a gene for a truncated human interleukin-2. Female balb/c mice were administered 2 × 105 (ATCC K7M2) osteosarcoma cells via tail vein injection from culture and treated by oral gavage of Salmonella species 3 days later. Mice were harvested for splenic lymphocytes and tumor enumeration by intratracheal injection with India ink 21 days after injection. Treatment with attenuated SalpIL2 reduced pulmonary metastases in number and volume compared to saline controls. Furthermore, splenic natural killer cell populations were increased 93% with SalpIL2 and 114% with Sal-NG compared to nontreated groups. This pulmonary metastasis model demonstrates attenuated Salmonella typhimurium with human interleukin-2 reduced metastatic osteosarcoma in mice and confirm the need for further investigation into the immunologic properties of SalpIL2 as a possible treatment for metastatic osteosarcoma.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1285-1291 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Clinical orthopaedics and related research |
| Volume | 466 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations (eg, consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangements, etc) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. This project was paid for by the Arnold S. Leonard Cancer Research Fund and/or Department Chair. Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the animal protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principles of research.
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Acknowledgments We thank the Flow Cytometry Core Facility of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, a comprehensive cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute, supported in part by P30 CA77598. We also thank Dr. Robert Acton, Dr. Denis Clo-hisy, Dr. Robert Bulander, Dr. Karen Wasiluk, Karen McCulloch and Jerry Vincent for their support of this project. We also thank the University of Minnesota’s Cancer Center’s Histopathology Core for their slide preparation of histological samples. All experiments were approved by the University of Minnesota Institutional Animal Care and Uses Committee (number 0409A63728).
