Effects of a non thermal plasma treatment alone or in combination with gemcitabine in a MIA PaCa2-luc orthotopic pancreatic carcinoma model

PLoS One. 2012;7(12):e52653. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052653. Epub 2012 Dec 26.

Abstract

Pancreatic tumors are the gastrointestinal cancer with the worst prognosis in humans and with a survival rate of 5% at 5 years. Nowadays, no chemotherapy has demonstrated efficacy in terms of survival for this cancer. Previous study focused on the development of a new therapy by non thermal plasma showed significant effects on tumor growth for colorectal carcinoma and glioblastoma. To allow targeted treatment, a fibered plasma (Plasma Gun) was developed and its evaluation was performed on an orthotopic mouse model of human pancreatic carcinoma using a MIA PaCa2-luc bioluminescent cell line. The aim of this study was to characterize this pancreatic carcinoma model and to determine the effects of Plasma Gun alone or in combination with gemcitabine. During a 36 days period, quantitative BLI could be used to follow the tumor progression and we demonstrated that plasma gun induced an inhibition of MIA PaCa2-luc cells proliferation in vitro and in vivo and that this effect could be improved by association with gemcitabine possibly thanks to its radiosensitizing properties.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic / pharmacology*
  • Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal / therapy*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation / drug effects
  • Cell Tracking
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Deoxycytidine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Deoxycytidine / pharmacology
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Female
  • Gemcitabine
  • Humans
  • Luciferases, Firefly / biosynthesis
  • Mice
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Plasma Gases / therapeutic use*
  • Tumor Burden
  • Whole Body Imaging
  • Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays

Substances

  • Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
  • Plasma Gases
  • Deoxycytidine
  • Luciferases, Firefly
  • Gemcitabine

Grants and funding

This work is supported by the Region Centre (APR “PlasMed”), Germitec, Conseil Regional du Centre, CNRS and also by French ‘Agence Nationale de la Recherche’ (program ANR 2010 BLAN 0930 01). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.