TY - JOUR T1 - Oncolytic Effect of Adenoviruses Serotypes 5 and 6 Against U87 Glioblastoma Cancer Stem Cells JF - Anticancer Research JO - Anticancer Res SP - 6073 LP - 6086 DO - 10.21873/anticanres.13815 VL - 39 IS - 11 AU - MARGARITA V. ROMANENKO AU - EVGENIYA V. DOLGOVA AU - IVAN D. OSIPOV AU - GENRIKH S. RITTER AU - MARIYA S. SIZOVA AU - ANASTASIA S. PROSKURINA AU - YAROSLAV R. EFREMOV AU - SERGEY I. BAYBORODIN AU - EKATERINA A. POTTER AU - OLEG S. TARANOV AU - VLADIMIR V. OMIGOV AU - GALINA V. KOCHNEVA AU - ANTONINA A. GRAZHDANTSEVA AU - EVGENIY L. ZAVYALOV AU - IVAN A. RAZUMOV AU - SERGEY V. NETESOV AU - SERGEY S. BOGACHEV Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/39/11/6073.abstract N2 - Background/Aim: Oncolytic adenoviruses are promising therapeutic agents against both the bulk of tumor cells and cancer stem cells. The present study intended to test the oncolytic capability of adenovirus serotype 6 (Ad6), which has a lower seroprevalence and hepatotoxicity relatively to adenovirus 5 (Ad5), against the glioblastoma and its cancer stem cells. Materials and Methods: Oncolytic efficacy of Ad6 was compared to widespread Ad5 both in vitro and in vivo, using the U87 and U251 human glioblastoma cell lines and subcutaneously transplanted U87 cells in SCID mice, respectively. Results: Ad6 had a dose-dependent cytotoxicity toward glioblastoma cells in vitro and its intratumoral injections lead to a significant (p<0.05) decrease in volume of U87 xenografts, similarly to Ad5. Based on the innate capability of glioblastoma cancer stem cells to internalize a fluorescent-labeled double-stranded DNA probe, the spatial localization of these cells was estimated and it was shown that the number of cancer stem cells tended to decrease under adenovirus therapy as compared to the control group. Conclusion: Ad6 was shown to be a promising agent for treating glioblastomas. ER -