Tamoxifen suppresses paclitaxel-, vincristine-, and bortezomib-induced neuropathy via inhibition of the protein kinase C/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway

Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy is a highly problematic, dose-limiting effect of potentially curative regimens of cancer chemotherapy. When neuropathic pain is severe, patients often either switch to less-effective chemotherapy agents or choose to discontinue chemotherapy entirely. Conventional chemotherapy drugs used to treat lung and breast cancer, multiple myeloma, and lymphoma include paclitaxel, vincristine, and bortezomib. Approximately 68% of patients receiving these anticancer drugs develop neuropathy within the first month of treatment, and while strategies to prevent chemotherapy-induced neuropathy have been investigated, none have yet been proven as effective. Recent reports suggest that chemotherapy-induced neuropathy is associated with signal transduction molecules, including protein kinase C and mitogen-activated protein kinases. It is currently unclear whether protein kinase C inhibition can prevent chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. In this study, we found that tamoxifen, a protein kinase C inhibitor, suppressed paclitaxel-, vincristine-, and bortezomib-induced cold and mechanical allodynia in mice. In addition, chemotherapy drugs induce neuropathy via the protein kinase C/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway in the spinal cord in lumbar segments 4-6 and dorsal root ganglions. In addition, tamoxifen was shown to act synergistically with paclitaxel to inhibit tumor-growth in mice injected with tumor cells. Our results indicated that paclitaxel-, vincristine-, and bortezomib-induced neuropathies were associated with the protein kinase C/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway in the lumbar spinal cord and dorsal root ganglions, which suggest that protein kinase C inhibitors may be therapeutically effective for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neuropathy when administered with standard chemotherapy agents.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:40

Enthalten in:

Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 40(2018), 10 vom: 26. Okt., Seite 1010428318808670

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tsubaki, Masanobu [VerfasserIn]
Takeda, Tomoya [VerfasserIn]
Matsumoto, Mikihiro [VerfasserIn]
Kato, Natsuki [VerfasserIn]
Yasuhara, Shota [VerfasserIn]
Koumoto, Yu-Ichi [VerfasserIn]
Imano, Motohiro [VerfasserIn]
Satou, Takao [VerfasserIn]
Nishida, Shozo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

094ZI81Y45
5J49Q6B70F
69G8BD63PP
Bortezomib
Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy
EC 2.7.11.13
Extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2
Journal Article
P88XT4IS4D
Paclitaxel
Protein Kinase C
Protein kinase C
Tamoxifen
Vincristine

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Date Completed 06.11.2018

Date Revised 06.11.2018

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/1010428318808670

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM289948282