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JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
卷 11, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-11-290
关键词
Breast cancer; Serum amino acids; Molecular subtypes; Tumor immunology
资金
- Robert Lundgrens Foundation
- Lars Hiertas Memorial Foundation
- Sigurd and Elsa Goljes Memorial foundation
- Karolinska Institutet
- Swedish Society for Medical Research
- Swedish Breast Cancer Association (BRO)
- Foundation Olle Engkvist Byggmastare
- Swedish Cancer Society
- Swedish Medical Research Council
- Cancer Society of Stockholm
- Stockholm City Council
Background: Malignancies induce changes in the levels of serum amino acids (AA), which may offer diagnostic potential. Furthermore, changes in AA levels are associated with immune cell function. In this study, serum AA levels were studied in breast cancer patients versus patients with benign breast lesions. Methods: In a prospective study, serum levels of 15 AA were measured by high performance liquid chromatography before and after surgery in 41 breast cancer patients (BrCA) and nine patients with benign breast lesions (healthy donors, HD). Results were analyzed in relation to clinical tumor data and tested against immunological flow cytometry data. Principal component analysis was performed and the accuracy of AA levels as a potential diagnostic tool was tested. Results: Pre-but not postoperative serum AA levels were increased in BrCA in eight out of 15 AA compared with HD. Serum AA levels were highest in the most aggressive (basal-like) as compared with the least aggressive tumor subtype (luminal A). A principal component (PC1) of all measured AA correlated with a mainly pro-inflammatory immune profile, while a second one (PC2, selectively considering AA preoperatively differing between HD and BrCA) could predict health state with an area under the curve of 0.870. Conclusions: Breast cancer shows a tumor-dependent impact on serum AA levels, which varies with intrinsic tumor subtypes and is associated with a pro-inflammatory state. Serum AA levels need further evaluation as a potential diagnostic tool.
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