A novel treatment to enhance survival for end stage triple negative breast cancer using repurposed veterinary anthelmintics combined with gut‑supporting/immune enhancing molecules

Iragavarapu‑Charyulu,Vijaya; Shakya,Rojesh; Robinson,Philip; Guzmán,Esther; Tyulmenkova,Anastasia; Pino,Jose Labrador; Isgor,Ceylan

doi:10.3892/or.2023.8690

A novel treatment to enhance survival for end stage triple negative breast cancer using repurposed veterinary anthelmintics combined with gut‑supporting/immune enhancing molecules

Authors:
- Vijaya Iragavarapu‑Charyulu
- Rojesh Shakya
- Philip Robinson
- Esther Guzmán
- Anastasia Tyulmenkova
- Jose Labrador Pino
- Ceylan Isgor
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Affiliations: Department of Basic Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431‑0991, USA, Department of Clinical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431‑0991, USA, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, 5600 US 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946‑7331, USA
Published online on: December 22, 2023 https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2023.8690
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Abstract

Patients with end‑stage metastatic disease have limited treatment options and those diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer (Her2, Estrogen receptor, Progesterone receptor) have a poor prognosis. Using a triple negative mammary tumor model selected for brain metastasis (4T1Br4) in the mouse, treatment options that may increase survival when therapeutics are applied at post‑metastasis were assessed. Anti‑parasitic benzimidazoles (BZs) destabilize microtubules, inhibit metabolic pathways, reduce cell proliferation, and induce apoptosis in tumor cells. Co‑administration of two BZs was selected, oxfendazole (OFZ) and parbendazole (PBZ), shown to overcome resistance development in anthelmintic effects by imposing metabolic delay to assess if multiple BZ approach is also suitable to enhance anticancer effects. It has been previously reported that treatment of mammary tumor‑bearing mice at an early stage with chitin microparticles (CMPs) decreased tumor growth and metastases by enhancing both innate M1 macrophage and TH1 adaptive immune response. Oral administration of CMPs was previously revealed to affect the gut in intestinal inflammation. A combination BZ (OFZ/PBZ) and CMP treatment was tested to target tumor development and metastasis and effects were compared in response to monotherapies of the same compounds or to untreated mice. The results demonstrated increased survival, decreased tumor cell proliferation, decreased metastasis in lungs and brain, increased levels of fecal SCFAs butyric, acetic, propionic and valeric acids with increased butyric and propionic acid levels in brain biopsies in combination treated compared with untreated mice. At the primary tumor, SCFA receptor FFAR2 expression was increased in combination treatment compared with untreated mice, suggestive of a non‑invasive cancer phenotype. The superior cytotoxic effects of OFZ/PBZ were confirmed as opposed to single treatment with OFZ or PBZ using 3D spheroids generated from a human breast cancer cell line, MDA‑MB‑468. These data are compelling for treatment option possibility even at late stages of metastasized breast cancer.

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