摘要:
The invention is relative to the use of an effective amount of an agonist of the CDO's apoptotic function for the preparation of a drug to induce cell apoptosis in a patient having tumoral cells bearing CDO and expressing SHH. The agonist may be a CDO fragment, a fusion protein comprising a CDO fragment, an antibody against SHH, or a siRNA which is capable of inhibiting SHH expression. The invention also concerns a pharmaceutical composition containing an agonist of the CDO's apoptotic function or a CDO polypeptide or an antibody specific to CDO, and an agonist of the PTC1's apoptotic function or a PTC1 polypeptide or an antibody specific to PTC1, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or vehicle.
摘要:
The present invention comprises an in vitro method for predicting whether neuroblastoma (NB) identified in a patient is a metastatic and/or an aggressive NB, and/or a NB having a poor prognosis, or for predicting a NB having a good prognosis. The present invention further comprises a method for preventing and/or treating such NB cancer and a method for selecting a therapeutic compound for the prevention or the treatment of such metastatic and/or aggressive NB. Finally, the present invention is directed to a method for determining in vitro the efficiency of an anti-NB cancer treatment or for in vitro selecting patients who respond to a specific anti-NB treatment and wherein said NB cancer is a metastatic and/or aggressive NB related to the presence of an overexpression of netrin-1 in the tumoral tissue.
摘要:
The subject matter of the present invention relates to an in vitro method for the screening of anti-cancer compounds based on the capacity for these compound to interact with netrin-1 receptor and/or to inhibit the dimerization of the intracellular domain of the netrin-1 receptor expressed in tumor cells. The invention also relates to a method for predicting the presence of metastatic or aggressive cancer, or for determining the efficiency of an anti-cancer treatment based on the measuring of the expression level of netrin-1. The invention further comprises kits and compounds as a medicament for the treatment of cancer such as metastatic breast cancer, related to the overexpression of netrin-1 by the tumor cells.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an in vitro method for selecting a compound capable to induce the death of endothelial cells, preferably endothelial cells from vessels or neovessels. The invention further comprises the use of netrin-1 function inhibitors as compounds capable to induce the death of endothelial cells, preferably endothelial cells from vessels or neovessels of tumor expressing netrin-1. Finally, the invention relates to a kit for the selection of a compound capable to induce the death of endothelial cells.