Journal article
Vinorelbine Potently Induces Placental Cell Death, Does Not Harm Fertility and is a Potential Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy
Roxanne Hastie, Elgene Lim, Pavel Sluka, Lisa Campbell, Andrew W Horne, Lenore Ellett, Natalie J Hannan, Fiona Brownfoot, Tu'uhevaha J Kaitu'u-Lino, Stephen Tong
EBIOMEDICINE | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2018
Abstract
Ectopic pregnancies complicate 1-2 pregnancies and are a leading cause of maternal death. An effective oral drug therapy that replaces surgery might make its treatment safer, cheaper, simpler and therefore more widely accessible. The only current medical treatment offered to women is intramuscular methotrexate, but this only reliably resolves smaller ectopic pregnancies. As such, many ectopic pregnancies require surgical excision. We show that vinorelbine, an orally available chemotherapeutic agent, potently induced placental cell death but did not harm fertility in mice. Vinorelbine was 100-1000 times more potent than methotrexate in inducing placental cell death in vitro, and more potent t..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC of Australia (#1123274) and the Austin Medical Research Foundation. R. Hastie was supported via an APA scholarship. S. Tong (#1050765) and T.K. Kaitu'u-Lino (#1062418) were supported by NHMRC Fellowships. N.J. Hannan was supported by a University of Melbourne CR Roper Fellowship. AH is supported by a UK MRC Centre Grant (MR/N022556/1). LC is supported by a Welcome Trust Research Training Fellowship (108766). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish or the preparation of the manuscript. The funders had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish or the preparation of the manuscript.