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Combined treatment with verapamil, a calcium channel blocker, and B428, a synthetic uPA inhibitor, impairs the metastatic ability of a murine mammary carcinoma.

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:Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) and metalloproteinases (MMP) play key roles in invasion and metastasis, degrading extracellular matrix compounds and modulating tumor cell motility. Their regulation is an attractive therapeutic target for controlling tumor metastasis. Previously we have demonstrated that urokinase overexpression in murine mammary tumor cells is regulated by a Ca2+-dependent pathway and that blockage of Ca2+ channels by verapamil partially inhibited their invasive and metastatic ability. Moreover, the catalytic inhibition of uPA by a synthetic uPA inhibitor B428 reduced local tumor invasiveness but not tumor cell dissemination. We evaluated the effect of a combined treatment with verapamil and B428 on the murine mammary carcinoma F3II behavior in vivo and in vitro. In vivo administration of the combined treatment was not associated to an overt toxicity. Only the daily combined treatment, beginning after tumor take, reduced the incidence and the number of spontaneous lung metastasis, while no differences were found in the subcutaneous growth of the primary tumor. Interestingly, a remarkable reduction in plasma MMP-9 activity was found associated to metastasis impairment. In addition, the number of experimental lung metastases was also significantly diminished, with respect to the control group, only when both compounds were co-administered daily, beginning three days after i.v. tumor cell injection. In vitro, both compounds, either separately or combined, could inhibit secreted uPA activity. F3II cell migration was significantly inhibited by incubation with 50 microM verapamil, 15 microM B428 or the co-treatment with 7.5 microM B428 + 25 microM verapamil. The cell spread was also significantly reduced when F3II cells were exposed to the compounds, with an additive effect when B428 + verapamil combination was used. The combination of two compounds acting through different molecular targets may be useful to improve the control of metastatic dissemination.

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Oncol Rep

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Oncology reports

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Todaro LB,Ladeda V,Bal de Kier Joffé E,Farías EF

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2003-05-01 00:00:00

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725-32

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1021-335X

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1791-2431

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Combined treatment with verapamil, a calcium channel blocker, and B428, a synthetic uPA inhibitor, impairs the metastatic ability of a murine mammary carcinoma.