Cancer-associated cachexia

VE Baracos, L Martin, M Korc, DC Guttridge… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer-associated cachexia is a disorder characterized by loss of body weight with specific
losses of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. Cachexia is driven by a variable combination …

Cancer as a matter of fat: the crosstalk between adipose tissue and tumors

E Lengyel, L Makowski, J DiGiovanni, MG Kolonin - Trends in cancer, 2018 - cell.com
Obesity has been linked to the increased risk and aggressiveness of many types of
carcinoma. A state of chronic inflammation in adipose tissue (AT), resulting in genotoxic …

Inter-tissue communication in cancer cachexia

JM Argilés, B Stemmler, FJ López-Soriano… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Cachexia is a systemic condition that occurs during many neoplastic diseases, such as
cancer. Cachexia in cancer is characterized by loss of body weight and muscle and by …

Understanding the common mechanisms of heart and skeletal muscle wasting in cancer cachexia

V Rausch, V Sala, F Penna, PE Porporato, A Ghigo - Oncogenesis, 2021 - nature.com
Cachexia is a severe complication of cancer that adversely affects the course of the disease,
with currently no effective treatments. It is characterized by a progressive atrophy of skeletal …

Contribution of STAT3 to inflammatory and fibrotic diseases and prospects for its targeting for treatment

MM Kasembeli, U Bharadwaj, P Robinson… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 3 plays a central role in the host
response to injury. It is activated rapidly within cells by many cytokines, most notably those in …

Leucine supplementation in cancer cachexia: mechanisms and a review of the pre-clinical literature

AG Beaudry, ML Law - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancer cachexia (CC) is a complex syndrome of bodily wasting and progressive functional
decline. Unlike starvation, cachexia cannot be reversed by increased energy intake alone …

The impact of the adipose organ plasticity on inflammation and cancer progression

LH Corrêa, GS Heyn, KG Magalhaes - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity is characterized by chronic and low-grade systemic inflammation, an increase of
adipose tissue, hypertrophy, and hyperplasia of adipocytes. Adipose tissues can be …

Adipocytes in breast cancer, the thick and the thin

I Rybinska, R Agresti, A Trapani, E Tagliabue, T Triulzi - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
It is well established that breast cancer development and progression depend not only on
tumor-cell intrinsic factors but also on its microenvironment and on the host characteristics …

The evolving view of thermogenic fat and its implications in cancer and metabolic diseases

X Yin, Y Chen, R Ruze, R Xu, J Song… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The incidence of metabolism-related diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus has
reached pandemic levels worldwide and increased gradually. Most of them are listed on the …

Adipocyte p62/SQSTM1 suppresses tumorigenesis through opposite regulations of metabolism in adipose tissue and tumor

J Huang, A Duran, M Reina-Campos, T Valencia… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Obesity is a leading risk factor for cancer. However, understanding the crosstalk between
adipocytes and tumor cells in vivo, independently of dietary contributions, is a major gap in …