Methadone does not potentiate the effect of doxorubicin in canine tumour cell lines.

ABSTRACT: Opioid receptor activation was shown to enhance the efficacy of anti-neoplastic drugs in several human cancer cell lines. In these cell lines, doxorubicin increased the number of opioid receptors and methadone concurrently enhanced cellular doxorubicin uptake. Triggered through lay press and media, animal owners started to challenge veterinary oncologists with questions about methadone use in anti-cancer therapy. Especially in veterinary medicine, where side effects of chemotherapy are tolerated to a lesser extent and hence smaller doses are given, agents potentiating chemotherapeutic agents would be an optimal approach to treatment. Canine transitional cell carcinoma cells (TCC, K9TCC), canine osteosarcoma cells (OSA, Abrams) and canine hemangiosarcoma cells (HSA, DAL-4) were incubated wi

SUBMITTER: Cueni C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7397897 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature