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Intracranial microcapsule chemotherapy delivery for the localized treatment of rodent metastatic breast adenocarcinoma in the brain

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
dc.contributor Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
dc.contributor Patta, Yoda
dc.contributor Spencer, Kevin C.
dc.contributor Scott, Alexander
dc.contributor Masi, Byron
dc.contributor Cima, Michael J.
dc.contributor Langer, Robert
dc.creator Upadhyay, Urvashi M.
dc.creator Tyler, Betty
dc.creator Patta, Yoda
dc.creator Wicks, Robert
dc.creator Scott, Alexander
dc.creator Masi, Byron
dc.creator Hwang, Lee
dc.creator Grossman, Rachel
dc.creator Brem, Henry
dc.creator Cima, Michael J.
dc.creator Langer, Robert S
dc.creator Spencer, Kevin C
dc.date 2015-05-11T14:05:17Z
dc.date 2015-05-11T14:05:17Z
dc.date 2014-11
dc.date 2012-08
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:05:42Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:05:42Z
dc.identifier 0027-8424
dc.identifier 1091-6490
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96952
dc.identifier Upadhyay, Urvashi M., Betty Tyler, Yoda Patta, Robert Wicks, Kevin Spencer, Alexander Scott, Byron Masi, et al. “Intracranial Microcapsule Chemotherapy Delivery for the Localized Treatment of Rodent Metastatic Breast Adenocarcinoma in the Brain.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 45 (October 27, 2014): 16071–16076.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2379-6139
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7963-8706
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278724
dc.description Metastases represent the most common brain tumors in adults. Surgical resection alone results in 45% recurrence and is usually accompanied by radiation and chemotherapy. Adequate chemotherapy delivery to the CNS is hindered by the blood–brain barrier. Efforts at delivering chemotherapy locally to gliomas have shown modest increases in survival, likely limited by the infiltrative nature of the tumor. Temozolomide (TMZ) is first-line treatment for gliomas and recurrent brain metastases. Doxorubicin (DOX) is used in treating many types of breast cancer, although its use is limited by severe cardiac toxicity. Intracranially implanted DOX and TMZ microcapsules are compared with systemic administration of the same treatments in a rodent model of breast adenocarcinoma brain metastases. Outcomes were animal survival, quantified drug exposure, and distribution of cleaved caspase 3. Intracranial delivery of TMZ and systemic DOX administration prolong survival more than intracranial DOX or systemic TMZ. Intracranial TMZ generates the more robust induction of apoptotic pathways. We postulate that these differences may be explained by distribution profiles of each drug when administered intracranially: TMZ displays a broader distribution profile than DOX. These microcapsule devices provide a safe, reliable vehicle for intracranial chemotherapy delivery and have the capacity to be efficacious and superior to systemic delivery of chemotherapy. Future work should include strategies to improve the distribution profile. These findings also have broader implications in localized drug delivery to all tissue, because the efficacy of a drug will always be limited by its ability to diffuse into surrounding tissue past its delivery source.
dc.description National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant R01 EB006365-06)
dc.description Brain Science Foundation (Private Grant 106708)
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1313420110
dc.relation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
dc.rights Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
dc.source National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
dc.title Intracranial microcapsule chemotherapy delivery for the localized treatment of rodent metastatic breast adenocarcinoma in the brain
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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