Selective boron delivery by intra-arterial injection of BSH-WOW emulsion in hepatic cancer model for neutron capture therapy.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

Boron neutron-capture therapy (BNCT) has been used to inhibit the growth of various types of cancers. In this study, we developed a 10BSH-entrapped water-in-oil-in-water (WOW) emulsion, evaluated it as a selective boron carrier for the possible application of BNCT in hepatocellular carcinoma treatment.

METHODS:

We prepared the 10BSH-entrapped WOW emulsion using double emulsification technique and then evaluated the delivery efficacy by performing biodistribution experiment on VX-2 rabbit hepatic tumour model with comparison to iodized poppy-seed oil mix conventional emulsion. Neutron irradiation was carried out at Kyoto University Research Reactor with an average thermal neutron fluence of 5 × 1012 n cm-2. Morphological and pathological analyses were performed on Day 14 after neutron irradiation.

RESULTS:

Biodistribution results have revealed that 10B atoms delivery with WOW emulsion was superior compared with those using iodized poppy-seed oil conventional emulsion. There was no dissemination in abdomen or lung metastasis observed after neutron irradiation in the groups treated with 10BSH-entrapped WOW emulsion, whereas many tumour nodules were recognized in the liver, abdominal cavity, peritoneum and bilateral lobes of the lung in the non-injected group.

CONCLUSION:

Tumour growth suppression and cancer-cell-killing effect was observed from the morphological and pathological analyses of the 10BSH-entrapped WOW emulsion-injected group, indicating its feasibility to be applied as a novel intra-arterial boron carrier for BNCT. Advances in knowledge: The results of the current study have shown that entrapped 10BSH has the potential to increase the range of therapies available for hepatocellular carcinoma which is considered to be one of the most difficult tumours to cure.

• Authors: Hironobu Yanagie, Novriana Dewi, Syushi Higashi, Ichiro Ikushima, Koji Seguchi, Ryoji Mizumachi, Yuji Murata, Yasuyuki Morishita, Atsuko Shinohara, Shoji Mikado, Nakahiro Yasuda, Mitsuteru Fujihara, Yuriko Sakurai, Kikue Mouri, Masashi Yanagawa, Tomoya Iizuka, Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinori Sakurai, Shin-Ichiro Masunaga, Hiroki Tanaka, Takehisa Matsukawa, Kazuhito Yokoyama, Takashi Fujino, Koichi Ogura, Yasumasa Nonaka, Hirotaka Sugiyama, Tetsuya Kajiyama, Sho Yui, Ryohei Nishimura, Koji Ono, Sinichi Takamoto, Jun Nakajima, Minoru Ono, Masazumi Eriguchi, Kenichiro Hasumi, Hiroyuki Takahashi
• Journal: The British journal of radiology (Br J Radiol) Vol. 90 Issue 1074 Pg. 20170004 (Jun 2017) ISSN: 1748-880X [Electronic] England
• PMID: 28406315 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Emulsions
• Plant Oils
• Boron

Topics

• Animals
• Boron
• Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (methods)
• Carcinoma, Hepatocellular (radiotherapy)
• Disease Models, Animal
• Emulsions
• Liver Neoplasms (radiotherapy)
• Papaver
• Plant Oils
• Rabbits
• Seeds
• Tissue Distribution