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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 137, Issue 11, Pages 2558-2565Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29620
Keywords
cancer cachexia; muscle wasting; tumor microenvironment; cytokine; colorectal cancer
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- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [23590891, 26460914]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26460914, 23590891] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The phenotype and severity of cancer cachexia differ among tumor types and metastatic site in individual patients. In this study, we evaluated if differences in tumor microenvironment would affect the development of cancer cachexia in a murine model, and demonstrated that body weight, adipose tissue and gastrocnemius muscle decreased in tumor-bearing mice. Interestingly, a reduction in heart weight was observed in the intraperitoneal tumor group but not in the subcutaneous group. We evaluated 23 circulating cytokines and members of the TGF-beta family, and found that levels of IL-6, TNF-alpha and activin A increased in both groups of tumor-bearing mice. Eotaxin and G-CSF levels in the intraperitoneal tumor group were higher than in the subcutaneous group. Atrogin 1 and MuRF1 mRNA expressions in the gastrocnemius muscle increased significantly in both groups of tumor-bearing mice, however, in the myocardium, expression of these mRNAs increased in the intraperitoneal group but not in subcutaneous group. Based on these results, we believe that differences in microenvironment where tumor cells develop can affect the progression and phenotype of cancer cachexia through alterations in various circulating factors derived from the tumor microenvironment.
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