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Ji Y, Han Z, Shao L, et al. Antitumor effects of combining tumor radiation with the antivascular action of ultrasound stimulated microbubbles. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2015;8(9):9958-74
Ji, Y., Han, Z., Shao, L., & Zhao, Y. (2015). Antitumor effects of combining tumor radiation with the antivascular action of ultrasound stimulated microbubbles. International journal of clinical and experimental pathology, 8(9), 9958-74.
Ji, Yanlei, et al. "Antitumor effects of combining tumor radiation with the antivascular action of ultrasound stimulated microbubbles." International journal of clinical and experimental pathology vol. 8,9 (2015): 9958-74.
Ji Y, Han Z, Shao L, Zhao Y. Antitumor effects of combining tumor radiation with the antivascular action of ultrasound stimulated microbubbles. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2015 Sep 01;8(9):9958-74. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26617705; PMCID: PMC4637790.
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Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2015 Sep 01;8(9):9958-74. eCollection 2015.

Antitumor effects of combining tumor radiation with the antivascular action of ultrasound stimulated microbubbles.

International journal of clinical and experimental pathology

Yanlei Ji, Zhen Han, Limei Shao, Yuehuan Zhao

Affiliations

  1. Department of Special Diagnosis, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute China.
  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Jinan Second People's Hospital China.

PMID: 26617705 PMCID: PMC4637790

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: More and more evidence indicates tumor vasculature plays an important role in tumor radiation response. In this study, we investigated ultrasound stimulated microbubbles to enhance the effects of radiation.

METHODS: Human bladder cancer HT-1376 xenografts in severe combined immuno-deficient mice were used. High-frequency (25 MHz) ultrasound was used to image tumor responses caused by ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles in combination with radiation. Human bladder xenografts grown in severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice were treated using microbubbles stimulated with ultrasound at 250, 570, or 750 kPa, and exposed to 0, 2, or 8 Gy of radiation. Tumors were imaged prior to treatment and 24 hours after treatment. Spectral analysis of images acquired from treated tumors revealed overall increases in ultrasound backscatter intensity and the spectral intercept parameter.

RESULTS: There existed a synergistic effect in vivo with combined single treatments of ultrasound-stimulated microbubble vascular perturbation and radiation inducing an over 10-fold greater cell kill with combined treatments. We further demonstrate that induction of ceramide-related endothelial cell apoptosis, leading to vascular disruption, is a causative mechanism. In vivo experiments with ultrasound and bubbles permit radiation doses to be decreased significantly for comparable effect.

CONCLUSION: We envisage this unique combined ultrasound-based vascular perturbation and radiation treatment method being used to enhance the effects of radiation in a tumor, leading to greater tumor eradication.

Keywords: Ultrasound stimulated microbubbles; antivascular action; radiation; tumor therapy

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