TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sturm, Julia B.
A1  - Hess, Michael
A1  - Weibel, Stephanie
A1  - Chen, Nanhei G.
A1  - Yu, Yong A.
A1  - Zhang, Quian
A1  - Donat, Ulrike
A1  - Reiss, Cora
A1  - Gambaryan, Stepan
A1  - Krohne, Georg
A1  - Stritzker, Jochen
A1  - Szalay, Aladar A.
T1  - Functional hyper-IL-6 from vaccinia virus-colonized tumors triggers platelet formation and helps to alleviate toxicity of mitomycin C enhanced virus therapy
N2  - Background: Combination of oncolytic vaccinia virus therapy with conventional chemotherapy has shown promise for tumor therapy. However, side effects of chemotherapy including thrombocytopenia, still remain problematic. Methods: Here, we describe a novel approach to optimize combination therapy of oncolytic virus and chemotherapy utilizing virus-encoding hyper-IL-6, GLV-1h90, to reduce chemotherapy-associated side effects. Results: We showed that the hyper-IL-6 cytokine was successfully produced by GLV-1h90 and was functional both in cell culture as well as in tumor-bearing animals, in which the cytokine-producing vaccinia virus strain was well tolerated. When combined with the chemotherapeutic mitomycin C, the anti-tumor effect of the oncolytic virotherapy was significantly enhanced. Moreover, hyper-IL-6 expression greatly reduced the time interval during which the mice suffered from chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Conclusion: Therefore, future clinical application would benefit from careful investigation of additional cytokine treatment to reduce chemotherapy-induced side effects.
KW  - Biologie
KW  - vaccinia virus
KW  - cancer
KW  - cytokine
KW  - hyper-IL-6
KW  - oncolysis
KW  - chemotherapy
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-75224
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kirscher, Lorenz
A1  - Deán-Ben, Xosé Luis
A1  - Scadeng, Miriam
A1  - Zaremba, Angelika
A1  - Zhang, Qian
A1  - Kober, Christina
A1  - Fehm, Thomas Felix
A1  - Razansky, Daniel
A1  - Ntziachristos, Vasilis
A1  - Stritzker, Jochen
A1  - Szalay, Aladar A.
T1  - Doxycycline Inducible Melanogenic Vaccinia Virus as Theranostic Anti-Cancer Agent
JF  - Theranostics
N2  - We reported earlier the diagnostic potential of a melanogenic vaccinia virus based system in magnetic resonance (MRI) and optoacoustic deep tissue imaging (MSOT). Since melanin overproduction lead to attenuated virus replication, we constructed a novel recombinant vaccinia virus strain (rVACV), GLV-1h462, which expressed the key enzyme of melanogenesis (tyrosinase) under the control of an inducible promoter-system. In this study melanin production was detected after exogenous addition of doxycycline in two different tumor xenograft mouse models. Furthermore, it was confirmed that this novel vaccinia virus strain still facilitated signal enhancement as detected by MRI and optoacoustic tomography. At the same time we demonstrated an enhanced oncolytic potential compared to the constitutively melanin synthesizing rVACV system.
KW  - reporter gene
KW  - oncolysis
KW  - molecular imaging
KW  - virotherapy
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-124987
VL  - 5
IS  - 10
ER  -