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[Cancer Research 61, 1527-1532, February 15, 2001]
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Experimental Therapeutics

Antitumor Activity of the Rapamycin Analog CCI-779 in Human Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor/Medulloblastoma Models as Single Agent and in Combination Chemotherapy1

Birgit Geoerger, Karol Kerr, Cheng-Bi Tang, Kar-Ming Fung, Bruce Powell, Leslie N. Sutton, Peter C. Phillips and Anna J. Janss2

Division of Neuro-Oncology [B. G., K. K., C-B. T., P. C. P., A. J. J.], Department of Neurosurgery [L. N. S.], and Pathology [B. P.], Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Department of Pathology [K-M. F.], Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

We examined the cytotoxicity of the immunosuppressant agent rapamycin and its analogue CCI-779 in human brain tumor cell lines in vitro and in vivo as single agents and in combination with standard chemotherapeutic drugs. In the rapamycin-sensitive PNET/MB cell line DAOY, rapamycin exhibited additive cytotoxicity with cisplatin and with camptothecin. In vivo, CCI-779 delayed DAOY xenograft growth by 160% after 1 week and 240% after 2 weeks of systemic treatment, compared with controls. Single high-dose treatment induced 37% regression of tumor volume. Growth inhibition of DAOY xenografts was 1.3 times greater after simultaneous treatment with CCI-779 and cisplatin than after cisplatin alone. Interestingly, CCI-779 also produced growth inhibition of xenografts derived from U251 malignant glioma cells, a human cell line resistant to rapamycin in vitro. These studies suggest that the rapamycin analogue CCI-779 is an important new agent to investigate in the treatment of human brain tumors, particularly PNET/MB.




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