Telomerase specific oncolytic virotherapy to purge lymph node metastasis for minimizing invasiveness of gastrointestinal surgery

2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19591543
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Digestive surgery
• Research Institution: Okayama University
• Principal Investigator: KAGAWA Syunsuke Okayama University, 医学部・歯学部附属病院, 助教 (00362971)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUJIWARA Toshiyoshi 岡山大学, 医学部・歯学部附属病院, 准教授 (00304303)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2008
• Keywords: 癌 / 転移 / アデノウイルス / テロメラーゼ / ウイルス療法

Research Abstract

これまで癌細胞を選択的に破壊するウイルス製剤テロメライシンの研究開発をおこなってきた。消化器癌治療における病態に応じた低侵襲手術の実現を目指し、癌のリンパ節転移に対するテロメライシンの治療効果を検討した。癌の原発巣に投与したテロメライシンはリンパ流に乗ってリンパ節に到達し、転移病巣内で治療効果を発揮することが確認された。テロメライシンは癌の原発巣とともにリンパ節転移をも治療できる可能性が示された。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] A novel antiangiogenic effect for telomerasespecific virotherapy through host immune system (2009)
  • Author(s): Ikeda Y, Kojima T, Kuroda S, Endo Y, Sakai R, Hioki M, Kishimoto H, Uno F, Kagawa S, Watanabe Y, Hashimoto Y, Urata Y, Tanaka N, Fujiwara T
  • Journal Title: Journal of Immunology 182 Pages: 1763-1769
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Combination of oncolytic adenovirotherapy and Bax gene therapy in human cancer xenografted models (2008)
  • Author(s): Hioki M, Kagawa S, Fujiwara T, Sakai R, Kojima T, Watanabe Y, Hashimoto Y, Uno F, Tanaka N, Fujiwara T
  • Journal Title: Potential merits and hurdles for combination therapy, International Journal of Cancer 122 Pages: 2628-2633
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Virus-mediated oncolysis induces danger signal and stimulates cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity via proteasome activator upregulation (2008)
  • Author(s): Endo Y, Sakai R, Ouchi M, Onimatsu H, Hioki M, Kagawa S, Uno F, Watanabe Y, Urata Y, Tanaka N, Fujiwara T
  • Journal Title: Oncogene 27 Pages: 2375-2381
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Establishment of biological and pharmacokinetic assays of telomerasespecific replication-selective adenovirus (2008)
  • Author(s): Hashimoto Y, Watanabe Y, Shirakiya Y, Uno F, Kagawa S, Kawamura H, Nagai K, Tanaka N, Kumon H, Urata Y, Fujiwara T
  • Journal Title: Cancer Science 99 Pages: 385-390
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] テロメラーゼ特異的腫瘍融解ウイルスによる大腸がんモデルにおけるリンパ節内転移癌細胞の粛清効果の検討 (2008)
  • Author(s): 児島亨
  • Organizer: 第67回日本癌学会学術総会
  • Place of Presentation: 愛知県名古屋市
  • Year and Date: 2008-10-29
• [Presentation] In vivo biological purging of lymph node metastasis by Telomerase-specific oncolytic virus in an orthotopic human colorectal cancer model (2008)
  • Author(s): Toru Kojima
  • Organizer: AACR 99th Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: San Diego, 米国
  • Year and Date: 2008-04-14
• [Presentation] Telomerase-specific virotherapy targeting lymph node micrometastasis of human cancer (2007)
  • Author(s): 児島亨
  • Organizer: 第66回日本癌学会学術総会
  • Place of Presentation: 神奈川県横浜市
  • Year and Date: 2007-10-03
• [Presentation] Telomerase-specific virotherapy targeting lymph node metastasis of gastrointestinal cancer (2007)
  • Author(s): Toru Kojima
  • Organizer: 10th Annual Meeting of American Society of Gene Therapy
  • Place of Presentation: Washington, 米国
  • Year and Date: 2007-06-01
• [Presentation] 消化器癌の微小リンパ節転移を標的とする新規ウイルス製剤OBP-301による治療法の開発 (2007)
  • Author(s): 児島亨
  • Organizer: 第107回日本外科学会定期学術集会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪府大阪市
  • Year and Date: 2007-04-11