2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of PSA-conditional PTEN/p53 double knockout mouse prostate cancer model
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26462433
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Urology
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| Research Institution | Kindai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 前立腺癌 / 遺伝子改変マウス / PTEN / p53 / 前臨床試験 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We have previously developed a PTEN flox/PSA-Cre transgenic mouse prostate cancer model. In the current research, we focused on p53 (Trp53) to establish a more aggressive metastatic prostate cancer model. Using the same gene engineering method, we established a PSA-conditional PTEN/p53 double knockout (PTEN/p53 DKO) mouse prostate cancer model. Mice with DKO homo-deletion develop an aggressive phenotype characterized by a higher incidence of metastasis, including multiple metastases to lungs, liver, lymph nodes and other distant organs, and decreased survival (median overall survival, 55 weeks of the age), enabling us to use the PTEN/p53 DKO mouse model to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy in a ramdomised controlled studies with similar end points of PFS and OS to a human phase-3 trial. These findings demonstrate the usefulness of the PTEN/p53 DKO mouse prostate cancer model for the preclinical development of novel treatment strategies for prostate cancer.
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| Free Research Field |
前立腺癌
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