Ex vivo therapy of malignant melanomas transplanted into organotypic brain slice cultures using inhibitors of histone deacetylases

Hoelsken, Annett, Eyuepoglu, Ilker Y., Lueders, Mike, Traenkle, Christian, Dieckmann, Detlef, Buslei, Rolf, Hahnen, Eric, Bluemcke, Ingmar and Siebzehnrubl, Florian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8411-8775 2006. Ex vivo therapy of malignant melanomas transplanted into organotypic brain slice cultures using inhibitors of histone deacetylases. Acta Neuropathologica 112 (2) , pp. 205-215. 10.1007/s00401-006-0082-8

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Abstract

Disease progression in patients suffering from malignant melanomas is often determined by metastatic spreading into brain parenchyma. Systemic chemotherapy regimens are, therefore, mandatory for successful treatment. Most recently, inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDACi) have been shown to significantly inhibit melanoma progression. Here, mouse as well as human melanoma cells were transplanted into rodent hippocampal slice cultures in order to translate and microscopically confirm promising in vitro chemotherapeutic propensities of HDACi within the organotypic brain environment. In our ex vivo model, tumor progression was significantly inhibited by administration of low micromolar concentrations of second generation HDACi MS-275 over a period of 8 days. In contrast, HDACi treatment with suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid was less efficient ex vivo, although both compounds were successful in the treatment of tumor cell monolayer cultures. Protein levels of the cell cycle inhibitor p21WAF1 were significantly increased after HDACi treatment, which points to enhanced G1 arrest of tumor cells as confirmed by cytofluorometric analysis. Considering the ability of MS-275 to cross the blood–brain barrier, our experimental model identifies the benzamide MS-275 as a promising therapeutic compound for targeting epigenetic chromatin modulation as systemic treatment of metastatic melanomas.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute (ECSCRI)
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0001-6322
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 10:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61405

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