Antitumor effects of ribavirin in combination with TMZ and IFN- β in malignant glioma cells.

Antitumor effects of ribavirin in combination with TMZ and IFN-β in malignant glioma cells. Oncol Lett. 2020 Nov;20(5):178 Authors: Ochiai Y, Sumi K, Sano E, Yoshimura S, Yamamuro S, Ogino A, Ueda T, Suzuki Y, Nakayama T, Hara H, Katayama Y, Yoshino A Abstract The prognosis of gioblastoma, the standard chemotherapy agent for which is temozolomide (TMZ), remains poor despite recent advances in multimodal treatments. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and develop novel therapeutics for this malignant disease. Ribavirin, an anti-viral agent which is one of the standard agents for treatment of chronic hepatitis C in combination with interferon (IFN), was recently revealed to have an antitumor potential towards various tumor cells, including malignant glioma cells. The aim of the present study was to examine the antitumor effect of ribavirin in combination with TMZ and IFN-β on glioma cells and to evaluate the possibility that such combinations might represent a novel candidate for glioblastoma therapy. The combination of ribavirin with TMZ and IFN-β displayed a significant cell growth inhibitory effect with a ribavirin dose-dependency, including a relatively low concentration of ribavirin, on not only TMZ-sensitive but also TMZ-resistant malignant glioma cells. The antitumor efficacy of such a combination further indicated a synergistic interaction when assessed by the Chou-Talalay method. Furthermore, flow cytometry analysis sugg...
Source: Oncology Letters - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Oncol Lett Source Type: research