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Direct intra-tumoral injection of zinc-acetate halts tumor growth in a xenograft model of prostate cancer

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, June 2009
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Title
Direct intra-tumoral injection of zinc-acetate halts tumor growth in a xenograft model of prostate cancer
Published in
Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, June 2009
DOI 10.1186/1756-9966-28-84
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Authors

Maulik R Shah, Christopher L Kriedt, Nathan H Lents, Mary K Hoyer, Nimah Jamaluddin, Claudette Klein, Joseph Baldassare

Abstract

Intracellular levels of zinc have shown a strong inverse correlation to growth and malignancy of prostate cancer. To date, studies of zinc supplementation in prostate cancer have been equivocal and have not accounted for bioavailability of zinc. Therefore, we hypothesized that direct intra-tumoral injection of zinc could impact prostate cancer growth. In this study, we evaluated the cytotoxic properties of the pH neutral salt zinc acetate on the prostate cancer cell lines PC3, DU145 and LNCaP. Zinc acetate killed prostate cancer cell lines in vitro, independent of androgen sensitivity, in a dose-dependent manner in a range between 200 and 600 microM. Cell death occurred rapidly with 50% cell death by six hours and maximal cell death by 18 hours. We next established a xenograft model of prostate cancer and tested an experimental treatment protocol of direct intra-tumoral injection of zinc acetate. We found that zinc treatments halted the growth of the prostate cancer tumors and substantially extended the survival of the animals, whilst causing no detectable cytoxicity to other tissues. Thus, our studies form a solid proof-of-concept that direct intra-tumoral injection of zinc acetate could be a safe and effective treatment strategy for prostate cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 3%
Unknown 31 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 22%
Student > Master 6 19%
Researcher 4 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 13%
Professor 3 9%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 3 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 9%
Engineering 3 9%
Chemistry 3 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 6%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 9 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2021.
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#5,446,210
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
#323
of 2,378 outputs
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#23,170
of 122,389 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
#2
of 17 outputs
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