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. 2020 Dec 1;35(7):1933–1948. doi: 10.1038/s41375-020-01095-z

Fig. 8. A combination of Nutlin-3a, cytarabine, and miR-10a inhibition is an effective therapeutic strategy for AML in vivo.

Fig. 8

a Inhibition of miR-10a markedly improved the survival of mice bearing OCI-AML3 xenografts compared to the control inhibitor group when treated with both Nutlin-3a (upper left; mean survival 34.6 days vs 22.9 days; p < 0.001) and cytarabine (upper right; mean survival 33.2 days vs 27.4 days; p = 0.02), as visualized in Kaplan–Meier survival plots. A combination of cytarabine, Nutlin-3a, and miR-10a inhibition further increased survival (mean 37.1 days) compared to vehicle-only (mean 22.3 days) and cytarabine + control inhibitor “standard-of-care” controls (lower left; mean 27.4 days; p < 0.001; also see Supplementary Table 4 for pairwise Cox regression comparison p values). Lower right shows mean survival for each treatment group expressed as a fold-change versus vehicle control. Addition of the miR-10a inhibitor significantly increased survival in mice treated with Nutlin-3a (p < 0.001), cytarabine (p = 0.02), and Nutlin-3a + cytarabine (p < 0.001). b This corresponded with significantly reduced hCD45+ leukemic cell infiltrate in the spleen following 7 days of treatment. c Consistent with in vitro findings, while variable, miR-10a inhibited AML cells exhibited a trend towards lower MDC-positivity, indicating a repressed autophagy response (p = 0.21). Images were collected using a Leica Aperio LV1 Real-time Digital Pathology System (20× scan). (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 by Student’s T test with error bars representing SD (six 400–600-cell fields quantified per bar)).