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Surgical debulking promotes recruitment of macrophages and triggers glioblastoma phagocytosis in combination with CD47 blocking immunotherapy

Huaiyang Zhu, Lina Leiss, Ning Yang, Cecilie B. Rygh, Siddhartha S. Mitra, Samuel H. Cheshier, Irving L. Weissman, Bin Huang, Hrvoje Miletic, Rolf Bjerkvig, Per Ø. Enger, Xingang Li and Jian Wang _

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Oncotarget. 2017; 8:12145-12157. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.14553

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Abstract

Huaiyang Zhu1,2, Lina Leiss1,5, Ning Yang3,4, Cecilie B. Rygh1, Siddhartha S. Mitra6, Samuel H. Cheshier7, Irving L. Weissman6, Bin Huang3,4, Hrvoje Miletic1,8, Rolf Bjerkvig1, Per Ø. Enger1,9, Xingang Li3,4, Jian Wang1,3,4

1Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

2Department of Oncology, Shandong Chest Hospital, Jinan, China

3Department of Neurosurgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China

4Brain Science Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan, China

5Neuro Clinic, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

6Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, USA

7Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, USA

8Department of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

9Department of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Correspondence to:

Jian Wang, email: [email protected]

Keywords: glioblastoma, CD47, signal regulatory protein-α, phagocytosis, macrophage

Received: April 20, 2016     Accepted: December 26, 2016     Published: January 06, 2017

ABSTRACT

Surgical resection is a standard component of treatment in the clinical management of patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). However, experimental therapies are rarely investigated in the context of tumor debulking in preclinical models. Here, a surgical debulking GBM xenograft model was developed in nude rats, and was used in combination with CD47 blocking immunotherapy, a novel treatment strategy that triggers phagocytosis of tumor cells by macrophages in diverse cancer types including GBM. Orthotopic patient–derived xenograft tumors expressing CD47 were resected at 4 weeks after implantation and immediately thereafter treated with anti-CD47 or control antibodies injected into the cavity. Debulking prolonged survival (median survival, 68.5 vs 42.5 days, debulking and non-debulking survival times, respectively; n = 6 animals/group; P = 0.0005). Survival was further improved in animals that underwent combination treatment with anti-CD47 mAbs (median survival, 81.5 days vs 69 days, debulking + anti-CD47 vs debulking + control IgG, respectively; P = 0.0007). Immunohistochemistical staining of tumor sections revealed an increase in recruitment of cells positive for CD68, a marker for macrophages/immune cell types, to the surgical site (50% vs 10%, debulking vs non-debulking, respectively). Finally, analysis of tumor protein lysates on antibody microarrays demonstrated an increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as CXCL10, and a decrease in angiogenic proteins in debulking + anti-CD47 vs non-debulking + IgG tumors. The results indicated that surgical resection combined with anti-CD47 blocking immunotherapy promoted an inflammatory response and prolonged survival in animals, and is therefore an attractive strategy for clinical translation.


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