ArticleOncology letters2020
Antitumor effects of ribavirin in combination with TMZ and IFN-β in malignant glioma cells.
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- The Effect of Interferon Type I Adjuvant Therapy on the Lifespan and Complications of Glioma Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Pooled it
- MUDENG, a component of adaptor complex 5, mediates TRAIL- and TMZ-triggered apoptosis in glioblastoma (GBM) via multiple pathways.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026Article
- The dark side of mRNA translation and the translation machinery in glioblastoma.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
- Promising Chemotherapy for Malignant Pediatric Brain Tumor in Recent Biological Insights.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Drug Repurposing for Glioblastoma and Current Advances in Drug Delivery-A Comprehensive Review of the Literature.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- Identification of an IFN-β-associated gene signature for the prediction of overall survival among glioblastoma patients.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Article
- Ratiometric Delivery of Mitoxantrone and Berberine Co-encapsulated Liposomes to Improve Antitumor Efficiency and Decrease Cardiac Toxicity.AAPS PharmSciTech · 2021Article
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Abstract
The prognosis of gioblastoma, the standard chemotherapy agent for which is temozolomide (TMZ), remains poor despite recent advances in multimodal treatments. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and develop novel therapeutics for this malignant disease. Ribavirin, an anti-viral agent which is one of the standard agents for treatment of chronic hepatitis C in combination with interferon (IFN), was recently revealed to have an antitumor potential towards various tumor cells, including malignant glioma cells. The aim of the present study was to examine the antitumor effect of ribavirin in combination with TMZ and IFN-β on glioma cells and to evaluate the possibility that such combinations might represent a novel candidate for glioblastoma therapy. The combination of ribavirin with TMZ and IFN-β displayed a significant cell growth inhibitory effect with a ribavirin dose-dependency, including a relatively low concentration of ribavirin, on not only TMZ-sensitive but also TMZ-resistant malignant glioma cells. The antitumor efficacy of such a combination further indicated a synergistic interaction when assessed by the Chou-Talalay method. Furthermore, flow cytometry analysis suggested that apoptosis induction was one of the possible biological processes underlying the synergistic antitumor effect of these triple combination treatments. Therefore, such combinations may be potentially important in the clinical setting for glioblastoma treatment, although further detailed studies, e.g. on the adverse effects, are required.
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