Naše päťročné výsledky in vitro testovania chemorezistencie u onkologických pacientov

Czech version

Authors: J. Hatok ¹; T. Matáková ¹; J. Jurečeková ¹; J. Chudej ²; P. Chudý ²; E. Huľo ³; A. Dzian ³; Ľ. Strelka ³; D. Dobrota ¹; P. Račay ¹
Authors‘ workplace: Ústav lekárskej biochémie, JLF UK Martin, Slovenská republika ¹; Klinika hematológie a transfuziológie, JLF UK a UNM Martin, Slovenská republika ²; Chirurgická klinika, JLF UK a UNM Martin, Slovenská republika ³
Published in: Klin Onkol 2011; 24(6): 443-446
Category: Original Articles

Overview

Backgrounds:
Translational medicine is a medical field encompassing basic research and development of new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for clinical practice. The present scientific paper focuses on our previous experience in the field of chemoresistance testing in patients with oncological diseases.

Material and Methods:
Since 2005, we sampled 71 patients with a leukaemia (AML, ALL and CML) and 92 patients with a solid tumour (lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer). Malignant cell in vitro drug resistance testing was carried out using cytotoxic methyl-thiazol tetrazolium (MTT) assay.

Results:
Based on the LC₅₀(lethal concentration of a drug killing 50% of cell population), we found that patients with acute myeloblastic leukaemia exhibit a greater degree of resistance than patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. In patients with bronchogenic carcinomas, primary resistance to cisplatin was identified in 28 % of tested samples, paclitaxel 36%, vincristine 50%, etoposide 56%, vinorelbine 57%, topotecan 62%, gemcitabine 77% and dacarbazine 86%.

Conclusion:
In vitro tests with gastrointestinal tract cancers also suggested high effectiveness of cisplatin (with the exception of gastric carcinoma) that was comparable with 5-fluorouracil. Even though the MTT assay has some limitations (insufficient number of vital cells, possible contamination by non-malignant cells, etc.), this in vitro method proved very effective in testing malignant cell resistance to clinically used cytostatics.

Key words:
translational medicine – chemoresistance – in vitro testing – malignity

This project has been supported by the Centre for Translational Research co-financed by the EU and European Regional Development Fund.

The authors declare they have no potential conflicts of interest concerning drugs, products, or services used in the study.

The Editorial Board declares that the manuscript met the ICMJE “uniform requirements” for biomedical papers.

Submitted:
17. 1. 2011

Accepted:
21. 11. 2011

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