Anti-tumor effectiveness of electrochemotherapy with bleomycin is increased by TNF-alpha on SA-1 tumors in mice.
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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.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cancer letters
دوره 116 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997