Anti-tumor effectiveness of electrochemotherapy with bleomycin is increased by TNF-alpha on SA-1 tumors in mice

Cancer Lett. 1997 Jun 3;116(1):85-92. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3835(97)00170-5.

Abstract

With the aim to increase anti-tumor effectiveness of electrochemotherapy, adjuvant immunotherapy with tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) was tested on tumors in mice. Increased anti-tumor effectiveness on SA-1 tumors was observed after combining TNF-alpha, injected either intratumorally or peritumorally, with electrochemotherapy using suboptimal dose of bleomycin (BLM). The increased anti-tumor effectiveness was neither the result of potentiated anti-tumor effectiveness of TNF-alpha due to exposure of tumors to electric pulses, nor due to interaction with BLM. Therefore, the effect of adjuvant TNF-alpha treatment might be immunomodulatory, augmenting the anti-tumor activity of electrochemotherapy, and possibly adding a systemic component to the localized electrochemotherapy treatment.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bleomycin / administration & dosage*
  • Chemotherapy, Adjuvant / methods*
  • Electrochemistry / methods*
  • Female
  • Fibrosarcoma / drug therapy*
  • Injections, Intralesional
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred Strains
  • Neoplasm Transplantation
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / administration & dosage*

Substances

  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
  • Bleomycin