Neuronavigation-guided focused ultrasound for transcranial blood-brain barrier opening and immunostimulation in brain tumors

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Focused ultrasound (FUS) in the presence of microbubbles can transiently open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to increase therapeutic agent penetration at the targeted brain site to benefit recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM) treatment. This study is a dose-escalating pilot trial using a device combining neuronavigation and a manually operated frameless FUS system to treat rGBM patients. The safety and feasibility were established, while a dose-dependent BBB-opening effect was observed, which reverted to baseline within 24 hours after treatment. No immunological response was observed clinically under the applied FUS level in humans; however, selecting a higher level in animals resulted in prolonged immunostimulation, as confirmed preclinically by the recruitment of lymphocytes into the tumor microenvironment (TME) in a rat glioma model. Our findings provide preliminary evidence of FUS-induced immune modulation as an additional therapeutic benefit by converting the immunosuppressive TME into an immunostimulatory TME via a higher but safe FUS dosage.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

Science advances - 7(2021), 6 vom: 15. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Ko-Ting [VerfasserIn]
Chai, Wen-Yen [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Ya-Jui [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Chia-Jung [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Pin-Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Tsai, Hong-Chieh [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Chiung-Yin [VerfasserIn]
Kuo, John S [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Hao-Li [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Kuo-Chen [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 18.04.2022

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Electronic-Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1126/sciadv.abd0772

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM321076362