Vascular bursts enhance permeability of tumour blood vessels and improve nanoparticle delivery (original) (raw)

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Enhanced permeability in tumours is thought to result from malformed vascular walls with leaky cell-to-cell junctions1,2. This assertion is backed by studies using electron microscopy and polymer casts that show incomplete pericyte coverage of tumour vessels and the presence of intercellular gaps3. However, this gives the impression that tumour permeability is static amid a chaotic tumour environment. Using intravital confocal laser scanning microscopy4,5 we show that the permeability of tumour blood vessels includes a dynamic phenomenon characterized by vascular bursts followed by brief vigorous outward flow of fluid (named ‘eruptions’) into the tumour interstitial space. We propose that ‘dynamic vents’ form transient openings and closings at these leaky blood vessels. These stochastic eruptions may explain the enhanced extravasation of nanoparticles from the tumour blood vessels, and offer insights into the underlying distribution patterns of an administered drug6,7.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank D. Stirland for providing the code used to perform distance to GFP analysis. This work was supported by the Core Research Program for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) and Center of Innovation (COI) Program from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), KAKENHI Grant Numbers 2379004 (Y.M.), 15K06871 (K.T.), 25750172 (H.C.), 24659584 (Y.M.), and 25000006 (K.K.) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Research Foundation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (Y.M.), the Photographic Research Fund of the Konica Minolta Imaging Science Foundation (Y.M.), and Grants from the Initiative for Accelerating Regulatory Science in Innovative Drug, Medical Device, and Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan. Funding for this work from J.N. and Y.H.B. was provided in part by NIH CA122356.

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  1. R. James Christie
    Present address: Present address: Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, MedImmune, LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878, USA,
  2. Yu Matsumoto and Joseph W. Nichols: These authors contributed equally to this work

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Clinical Biotechnology, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
    Yu Matsumoto, Kazuko Toh, Yutaka Miura, R. James Christie, Naoki Yamada & Kazunori Kataoka
  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
    Yu Matsumoto & Tatsuya Yamasoba
  3. Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Utah, 84112, USA
    Joseph W. Nichols
  4. Polymer Chemistry Division, Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 226-8503, Japan
    Takahiro Nomoto & Nobuhiro Nishiyama
  5. Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
    Horacio Cabral & Kazunori Kataoka
  6. Nikon Instech Company Limited, Tokyo, 108-6290, Japan
    Tadayoshi Ogura
  7. Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan
    Mitsunobu R. Kano
  8. Investigative Treatment Division, Research Center for Innovative Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, 277-8577, Japan
    Yasuhiro Matsumura
  9. Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, Utah, 84112, USA
    You Han Bae

Authors

  1. Yu Matsumoto
  2. Joseph W. Nichols
  3. Kazuko Toh
  4. Takahiro Nomoto
  5. Horacio Cabral
  6. Yutaka Miura
  7. R. James Christie
  8. Naoki Yamada
  9. Tadayoshi Ogura
  10. Mitsunobu R. Kano
  11. Yasuhiro Matsumura
  12. Nobuhiro Nishiyama
  13. Tatsuya Yamasoba
  14. You Han Bae
  15. Kazunori Kataoka

Contributions

Y.M. conceived, designed, and performed IVCLSM experiments, analysed the data, and wrote the paper. J.N. designed and performed computer simulation experiments, analysed the data, and wrote the paper. Y. Matsumoto and J.N. contributed equally to this work. K.T. and T.N. assisted with IVCLSM experiments. H.C., Y. Miura, and N.Y. synthesized the fluorescent nanoparticles. T.O. customized the microscope and maintained it in excellent condition. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript. H.C., N.N., Y.H.B. and K.K. edited the manuscript. Y.H.B. and K.K. supervised the whole project.

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Correspondence toYou Han Bae or Kazunori Kataoka.

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T.O. is an employee of Nikon Instech Co., Ltd., Japan. All other authors declare no competing financial interest.

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Matsumoto, Y., Nichols, J., Toh, K. et al. Vascular bursts enhance permeability of tumour blood vessels and improve nanoparticle delivery.Nature Nanotech 11, 533–538 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.342

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