The prognosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma is poor and agent ifosfamide to toxic metabolites. Administration of current treatment ineffective. A novel treatment strategy is ifosfamide to tumour-bearing mice that were recipients of described here using a mouse model system for pancreatic implanted encapsulated cells results in partial or even comcancer. Cells that have been genetically modified to plete tumour ablation. These results suggest that in situ express the cytochrome P450 2B1 enzyme are encapsuchemotherapy with genetically modified cells in an lated in cellulose sulphate and implanted into pre-estabimmunoprotected environment may prove useful for lished tumours derived from human pancreatic cells. application in man. Cytochrome P450 2B1 converts the chemotherapeutic
Microencapsulation, as a tool for immunoisolation for allogenic or xenogenic implants, is a rapidly growing field. However most of the approaches are based on alginate/polylysine capsules, despite this system's obvious disadvantages such as its pyrogenicity. Here we report a different encapsulation system based on sodium cellulose sulfate and polydiallyldimethyl ammonium chloride for the encapsulation of mammalian cells. We have characterized this system regarding capsule formation, strength and size of the capsules as well as viability of the cells after encapsulation. In addition, we demonstrate the efficacy of these capsules as a "microfactory" in vitro and in vivo. Using encapsulated hybridoma cells we were able to demonstrate long-term release of antibodies up to four months in vivo. In another application we could show the therapeutic relevance of encapsulated genetically modified cells as an in vivo activation center for cytostatic drugs during tumor therapy.
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