Evaluating the Combination of Radioimmunotherapy and Immunotherapy in a Melanoma Mouse Model

Immunotherapy has changed the oncology landscape during the last decade and become standard of care for several cancers. The combinations of immunotherapy with other treatment modalities are also being investigated. One of the challenges to investigate such combinations is to identify suitable mouse...

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Published in:International journal of molecular sciences 2020-01, Vol.21 (3), p.773
Main Authors: Jiao, R, Allen, K J H, Malo, M E, Rickles, D, Dadachova, E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal models
Antibodies
Bismuth isotopes
Body weight
Cancer therapies
Communication
Experiments
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Immunotherapy
Melanin
Melanoma
Metastasis
PD-1 protein
Radiation
Tumors
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Summary:Immunotherapy has changed the oncology landscape during the last decade and become standard of care for several cancers. The combinations of immunotherapy with other treatment modalities are also being investigated. One of the challenges to investigate such combinations is to identify suitable mouse models for the pre-clinical experiments. In the past, we and other researchers showed that murine B16-F10 melanoma in C57Bl6 mice is refractory to treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors. In this work we studied the suitability of an alternative syngeneic model, Cloudman S91 murine melanoma in DBA/2 mouse (DBA/2NCrl), to study the combination of immunotherapy targeting PD-1 and radioimmunotherapy targeting melanin. DBA/2 male and female mice were injected subcutaneously with 3-6 million Cloudman S91 cells. When the tumors reached ~150 mm volume, the animals were treated intraperitoneally with PBS (sham), h8C3 unlabeled (cold) antibody to melanin, immunotherapy with anti-PD-1 antibody, radioimmunotherapy with 213Bismuth ( Bi)-labeled h8C3 antibody, or several combinations of immunotherapy and radioimmunotherapy. Treatments with immunotherapy alone produced very modest effect on the tumor size, while combination therapy resulted in significant slowing down of the tumor growth, increased animal survival, and no decrease in animal body weight. We conclude that Cloudman S91 murine melanoma in DBA/2 mouse is a suitable model to evaluate combination of immunotherapy of melanoma with tangentially targeted treatments.
ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms21030773