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  • Title: The dual-targeted HER1/HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor lapatinib strongly potentiates the cardiac myocyte-damaging effects of doxorubicin.
    Author: Hasinoff BB, Patel D, Wu X.
    Journal: Cardiovasc Toxicol; 2013 Mar; 13(1):33-47. PubMed ID: 22948710.
    Abstract:
    The anticancer drug lapatinib (Tykerb) is a dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting the HER2 (ERBB2) and EGFR (ERBB1, HER1) pathways that have been shown in clinical trials to display some cardiotoxicity. Because trastuzumab also targets HER2 receptors, the lapatinib/doxorubicin combination provides a good model to probe the mechanism of the increased cardiotoxicity caused by the concurrent use of trastuzumab and doxorubicin. Using a neonatal rat cardiac myocyte model, we have investigated the ability of lapatinib alone and in combination with doxorubicin to damage myocytes. Lapatinib treatment alone only slightly induced myocyte damage. However, doxorubicin-induced myocyte damage was greatly potentiated by the addition of nanomolar lapatinib concentrations. Lapatinib alone treatment decreased phosphorylated ERK (MAPK), which may have, in part, contributed to the increased myocyte damage. As measured by flow cytometry, lapatinib-treated myocytes displayed an increased accumulation of doxorubicin. As lapatinib is a strong inhibitor of several ATP-dependent ABC-type efflux transporters, this likely occurred because lapatinib blocked doxorubicin efflux, thereby increasing intracellular doxorubicin concentrations and, thus, increasing myocyte damage. These results suggest that the clinical use of concurrent doxorubicin and lapatinib should be approached with care due to the possibility of lapatinib increasing doxorubicin cardiotoxicity.
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