Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran.
Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2024 Mar;187:51-60. doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2024.02.004. Epub 2024 Feb 17.
Neuroblastoma is a common inflammatory-related cancer during infancy. Standard treatment modalities including surgical interventions, high-dose chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy are not able to increase survival rate and reduce tumor relapse in high-risk patients. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are known for their tumor-targeting and immunomodulating properties. MSCs could be engineered to express anticancer agents (i.e., growth factors, cytokines, pro-apoptotic agents) or deliver oncolytic viruses in the tumor microenvironment. As many functions of MSCs are mediated through their secretome, researchers have tried to use extracellular vesicles (EVs) from MSCs for targeted therapy of neuroblastoma. Here, we reviewed the studies to figure out whether the use of MSCs could be worthwhile in neuroblastoma therapy or not. Native MSCs have shown a promoting or inhibiting role in cancers including neuroblastoma. Therefore, MSCs are proposed as a vehicle to deliver anticancer agents such as oncolytic viruses to the neuroblastoma tumor microenvironment. Although modified MSCs or their EVs have been shown to suppress the tumorigenesis of neuroblastoma, further pre-clinical and clinical studies are required to come to a conclusion.
神经母细胞瘤是婴儿期常见的炎症相关癌症。包括手术干预、大剂量化疗、放疗和免疫疗法在内的标准治疗方法无法提高高危患者的生存率并降低肿瘤复发率。间充质干细胞(MSCs)以其肿瘤靶向和免疫调节特性而闻名。可以对 MSCs 进行工程改造,使其在肿瘤微环境中表达抗癌剂(即生长因子、细胞因子、促凋亡剂)或递送溶瘤病毒。由于 MSCs 的许多功能是通过其细胞外囊泡(EVs)介导的,研究人员已尝试使用 MSC 的 EVs 进行神经母细胞瘤的靶向治疗。在这里,我们综述了这些研究,以确定 MSCs 的使用是否对神经母细胞瘤的治疗有价值。天然的 MSCs 在包括神经母细胞瘤在内的多种癌症中表现出促进或抑制作用。因此,MSC 被提议作为一种载体,将抗癌剂(如溶瘤病毒)递送至神经母细胞瘤肿瘤微环境。尽管已经证明修饰的 MSC 或其 EVs 可以抑制神经母细胞瘤的肿瘤发生,但仍需要进一步的临床前和临床研究来得出结论。
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