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Preconditioning of the tumor vasculature and tumor cells by intermittent hypoxia: implications for anti-cancer therapies
Martinive, Philippe
2007Meeting Gand
 

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Keywords :
hypoxia; tumor vasculature; anti-cancers therapies; radiotherapy
Abstract :
[en] Hypoxia is a common feature in tumors associated with an increased resistance of tumor cells to therapies. In addition to O(2) diffusion-limited hypoxia, another form of tumor hypoxia characterized by fluctuating changes in pO(2) within the disorganized tumor vascular network is described. Here, we postulated that this form of intermittent hypoxia promotes endothelial cell survival, thereby extending the concept of hypoxia-driven resistance to the tumor vasculature. We found that endothelial cell exposure to cycles of hypoxia reoxygenation not only rendered them resistant to proapoptotic stresses, including serum deprivation and radiotherapy, but also increased their capacity to migrate and organize in tubes. By contrast, prolonged hypoxia failed to exert protective effects and even seemed deleterious when combined with radiotherapy. The use of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha)-targeting small interfering RNA led us to document that the accumulation of HIF-1alpha during intermittent hypoxia accounted for the higher resistance of endothelial cells. We also used an in vivo approach to enforce intermittent hypoxia in tumor-bearing mice and found that it was associated with less radiation-induced apoptosis within both the vascular and the tumor cell compartments (versus normoxia or prolonged hypoxia). Radioresistance was further ascertained by an increased rate of tumor regrowth in irradiated mice preexposed to intermittent hypoxia and confirmed in vitro using distinctly radiosensitive tumor cell lines. In conclusion, we have documented that intermittent hypoxia may condition endothelial cells and tumor cells in such a way that they are more resistant to apoptosis and more prone to participate in tumor progression. Our observations also underscore the potential of drugs targeting HIF-1alpha to resensitize the tumor vasculature to anticancer treatments. PMID: 17178869 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Disciplines :
Radiology, nuclear medicine & imaging
Oncology
Author, co-author :
Martinive, Philippe ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Radiothérapie
Language :
English
Title :
Preconditioning of the tumor vasculature and tumor cells by intermittent hypoxia: implications for anti-cancer therapies
Publication date :
January 2007
Event name :
Meeting Gand
Event organizer :
BACR-ABEC-BVSK
Event place :
Gand, Belgium
Event date :
janvier 2007
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