Caracterização dos mecanismos de ação da imunoterapia intravesical com P-MAPA envolvendo as vias de sinalização dor receptores Toll-like (TLR) 2 e 4 na progressão do câncer de bexiga não-músculo invasivo

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Ana Beatriz Missio Vieira da [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Bexiga - Câncer - Tratamento; Imunoterapia; Receptores Toll-like; Animais transgênicos; Bladder - Cancer - Treatment
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/126574

Compounds that are able to act as Toll-like receptors (TLRs) agonists may represent promising candidates to be developed as drugs against cancer. Currently, the most effective therapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is immunotherapy with BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) associated with transurethral resection. However, the use of BCG is associated with side effects of varying strengths and in this scenario highlights the P-MAPA, which in great versatility and minimal cytotoxicity, opens a new perspective for fighting certain types of cancers, including NMIBC. Thus, the main objectives of this study were to characterize the histopathological and molecular effects of intravesical immunotherapy with P-MAPA involving the signaling pathways of TLRs 2 and TLR4 in the NMIBC treatment chemically induced in Wild Type mice (Wild Type - WT) and knockouts (-/-) for TLR4 and MyD88. The effects of P-MAPA immunotherapy were compared with BCG treatment. It were utilized 20 female mice of each strain (WT, TLR4 -/- and MyD88 -/-), all with 60 days of age and kept in the Nuclear Medicine Center, School of Medicine / USP - São Paulo. The animals were divided into 4 groups of 5 animals for each strain: Control Group (CTL): received intravesical dose of saline for 3 consecutive weeks; MNU Group: received a intravesical dose of N-methyl-N-Nitrosourea (MNU) every 15 days, a total of 3 doses; MNU+BCG Group: received received intravesical dose of BCG for 3 consecutive weeks; MNU+P-MAPA Group: received intravesical dose of P-MAPA for 3 consecutive weeks. After 09 weeks of experiment, urinary bladders were collected and submitted to histopathological and Western blotting analysis. The present study showed that P-MAPA immunotherapy led to distinct activation of the innate immune system TLR2 and 4-mediated when compared to BCG, resulting in increased signaling pathway for interferon (TRIF, IRF3, IFN-α and IFN-γ ) and restoration of the p53 protein ...