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Management of tumor growth and angiogenesis in triple-negative breast cancer by using redox nanoparticles.

Biomaterials 2021 Februrary
In cancer, angiogenesis is a critical phenomenon of nascent blood vessel development to facilitate the oxygen and nutrient supply prerequisite for tumor progression. Therefore, targeting tumors at the angiogenesis step may be significant to prevent their advanced progression and metastasis. Although angiogenesis inhibitors can limit the further growth of tumors, complete eradication of tumors may not be possible by monotherapy alone. Therefore, a therapeutic regimen targeting both tumor growth and its vasculature is essential. Because reactive oxygen species (ROS) are fundamental to both angiogenesis and tumor growth, the use of antioxidants may be an effective dual approach to inhibit tumors. We previously confirmed that our original antioxidant nitroxide radical-containing nanoparticles (RNPs) such as pH-sensitive RNPN , and pH-insensitive RNPO , effectively attenuates the tumorigenic and metastasis potentials of triple-negative breast cancer. In this study, we further investigated the efficacy of RNPs to limit the tumor progression by inhibiting the ROS-regulated cancer angiogenesis in a triple-negative breast cancer model. Here, we confirmed that RNPs significantly inhibited in vitro angiogenesis, attributed to the downregulation of the ROS-regulated angiogenesis inducer, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB231) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), which was consistent with decreased cellular ROS. TEMPOL, a low-molecular-weight (LMW) control antioxidant, exhibited anti-angiogenic effects accompanied by cytotoxicity to the endothelial cells. In an in vivo xenograft model for breast cancer, RNPs exerted significant anti-tumor effect due to the decreased expression of tumor VEGF, which prevented accumulation of the endothelial cells. It should be noted that such efficacy of RNPs was obtained with negligible off-target effects. On the other hand, TEMPOL, because of its size, exerted anti-angiogenesis effect accompanied with injuries to the kidneys, which corroborated with previous reports. Our findings imply that RNPs are more potential antioxidants than their LMW counterparts, such as TEMPOL, for the management of breast cancers.

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