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Veliparib in combination with radiotherapy for the treatment of MGMT unmethylated glioblastoma

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Translational Medicine, March 2017
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Title
Veliparib in combination with radiotherapy for the treatment of MGMT unmethylated glioblastoma
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Journal of Translational Medicine, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12967-017-1164-1
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Toni Rose Jue, Kyoko Nozue, Ashleigh J. Lester, Swapna Joshi, Lisette B. W. Schroder, Shane P. Whittaker, Sheri Nixdorf, Robert W. Rapkins, Mustafa Khasraw, Kerrie L. McDonald

Abstract

The O (6) -methylguanine methyltransferase (MGMT) gene is frequently unmethylated in patients with glioblastoma (GBM), rendering them non-responsive to the standard treatment regime of surgery followed by concurrent radiotherapy (RT) and temozolomide. Here, we investigate the efficacy of adding a PARP inhibitor, veliparib, to radiotherapy to treat MGMT unmethylated GBM. The inhibition of PARP with veliparib (ABT-888), a potent and orally bioavailable inhibitor in combination with RT was tested on a panel of patient derived cell lines (PDCLs) and patient-derived xenografts (PDX) models generated from GBM patients with MGMT unmethylated tumors. The combination of veliparib and RT inhibited colony formation in the majority of PDCLs tested. The PDCL, RN1 showed significantly reduced levels of the homologous repair protein, Mre11 and a heightened response to PARP inhibition measured by increased apoptosis and decreased colony formation. The oral administration of veliparib (12.5 mg/kg, twice daily for 5 days in a 28-day treatment cycle) in combination with whole brain RT (4 Gy) induced apoptosis (Tunel staining) and decreased cell proliferation (Ki67 staining) in a PDX of MGMT unmethylated GBM. Significantly longer survival times of the PDX treated with the combination treatment were recorded compared to RT only or veliparib only. Our results demonstrate preclinical efficacy of targeting PARP at multiple levels and provide a new approach for the treatment of MGMT unmethylated GBM.

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Unknown 46 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 15%
Other 5 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Student > Master 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 14 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 37%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 7%
Chemistry 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 15 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2017.
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#15,164,176
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#2,039
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#37
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