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Enantioanalysis of glutamine—a key factor in establishing the metabolomics process in gastric cancer. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:3199-3207. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02575-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Revised: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Oral Glutamine Ameliorates Chemotherapy-induced Changes of Intestinal Permeability and Does not Interfere with the Antitumor Effect of Chemotherapy in Patients with Breast Cancer: A Prospective Randomized Trial. TUMORI JOURNAL 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/030089160609200505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Aims and Background Sixty patients with breast cancer were randomly assigned to oral glutamine or placebo pre-neoadju-vant chemotherapy (CEF regimen). Methods and Study Design Oral glutamine supplementation was continued for at least 12 days. Patients kept a daily record of diarrhea and stomatitis. The plasma glutamine level, intestinal permeability (lactulose-mannitol test), and tumor size were analyzed. The expression of Ki-67 and PCNA antigens in breast carcinoma was assessed. Results The plasma glutamine level was significantly higher in the glutamine group than in the placebo group (420.39 ± 52.39 mmol/L vs 309.76 ± 42.34 mmoi/L, P <0.05). After one cycle of chemotherapy, the lactulose-mannitol ratio was higher in the placebo group than in the glutamine group (0.0630 ± 0.0091 vs 0.0471 ± 0.0094, P <0.05). No differences were observed in the grades of stomatitis and diarrhea, in the changes in tumor size, and in the expression of Ki-67 and PCNA antigens between the two groups. Conclusions Prophylactic oral glutamine could ameliorate the neoadjuvant chemotherapy-induced increase in intestinal permeability, but had no significant positive clinical effect on stomatitis and diarrhea and did not interfere with the antitumor effect of chemotherapy.
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Gabr A, Salem AAS, Samy HA, Tmam S, Ali AM. N(2)-L-Alanyl-L-Glutamine Dipeptide Preventing Oxaliplatin-Induced Neurotoxicity in Colorectal Cancer Patients. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.4236/jct.2016.79064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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1H-NMR-based metabolomics of tumor tissue for the metabolic characterization of rat hepatocellular carcinoma formation and metastasis. Tumour Biol 2010; 32:223-31. [DOI: 10.1007/s13277-010-0116-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2010] [Accepted: 09/21/2010] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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De Blaauw I, Deutz NE, Von Meyenfeldt MF. Metabolic changes in cancer cachexia--first of two parts. Clin Nutr 2007; 16:169-76. [PMID: 16844595 DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5614(97)80002-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/1997] [Accepted: 06/17/1997] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- I De Blaauw
- Department of Surgery, Fac II, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Wang WS, Lin JK, Lin TC, Chen WS, Jiang JK, Wang HS, Chiou TJ, Liu JH, Yen CC, Chen PM. Oral glutamine is effective for preventing oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy in colorectal cancer patients. Oncologist 2007; 12:312-9. [PMID: 17405895 DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.12-3-312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Oxaliplatin is effective in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC) patients; however, severe neurotoxicity develops frequently. To assess the efficacy of oral glutamine for preventing neuropathy induced by oxaliplatin, a pilot study was performed. A total of 86 patients with MCRC treated at Taipei Veterans General Hospital were enrolled. Oxaliplatin (85 mg/m(2), days 1 and 15) plus weekly bolus 5-fluorouracil (5-FU; 500 mg/m(2)) and folinic acid (FA; 20 mg/m(2)) on days 1, 8, and 15 were given every 28 days as first-line treatment. Patients were randomized to receive (glutamine group; n = 42) or not receive (control group; n = 44) glutamine (15 g twice a day for seven consecutive days every 2 weeks starting on the day of oxaliplatin infusion). Efficacy of chemotherapy, neurological toxicity, and electrophysiological alterations were assessed. A lower percentage of grade 1-2 peripheral neuropathy was observed in the glutamine group (16.7% versus 38.6%) after two cycles of treatment, and a significantly lower incidence of grade 3-4 neuropathy was noted in the glutamine group after four cycles (4.8% versus 18.2%) and six cycles (11.9% versus 31.8%). By adding glutamine, interference with activities of daily living was lower (16.7% versus 40.9%), and need for oxaliplatin dose reduction was lower (7.1% versus 27.3%). There were no significant between-group differences in response to chemotherapy (52.4% versus 47.8%), electrophysiological abnormalities, grade 3-4 non-neurological toxicities (26.2% versus 22.8%), or survival. These data indi-cate that oral glutamine significantly reduces the incidence and severity of peripheral neuropathy of MCRC patients receiving oxaliplatin without affecting response to chemotherapy and survival.
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- Wei-Shu Wang
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Choudry HA, Souba WW, Lin C, Meng Q, Karinch AM, Huang J, Pan M. Stimulation of expression of the intestinal glutamine transporter ATB0 in tumor-bearing rats. Ann Surg Oncol 2006; 13:1747-53. [PMID: 17006743 DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9115-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2006] [Revised: 05/22/2006] [Accepted: 05/23/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Glutamine supplementation ameliorates host catabolic response in tumor bearing states. The purpose of this in vivo study was to investigate intestinal glutamine transport and expression of glutamine transporter ATB(0) in methyl-cholanthrene (MCA)-sarcoma bearing rats. METHODS Fisher-344 rats underwent subcutaneous flank implantation of MCA-sarcoma cells (saline as control) and were pair-fed an equal quantity of chow as controls, to account for tumor-induced anorexia, until tumors reached 10 or 20% body weight. Intestinal mucosal brush border membrane [3H]-Glutamine transport was measured. Glutamine transporter ATB(0) mRNA and protein levels were measured by real-time PCR and western blot techniques, respectively. RESULTS Glutamine transport activity across the intestinal brush border membrane (BBM) was 3.7-fold higher in tumor-bearing rats (TBR) than in controls (TBR 153 +/- 22.6 vs. Control 41.9 +/- 9.7 pmol/mg protein/10s, P < .01). Transporter ATB(0) mRNA levels were 1.4-fold higher in tumor-bearing rats (Relative value TBR .61 +/- .12 vs. Control .43 +/- .1, P < .05). A 1.4-fold increase in transporter ATB(0) protein levels was observed in the tumor-bearing rats (Relative value TBR .52 +/- .07 vs. Control .37 +/- .04, P < .05). Circulating aortic plasma glutamine levels were 1.3-fold higher in tumor bearing rats ([Glutamine] = .63 +/- .02 Control vs. [Glutamine] = .74 +/- .01 mmol/l TBR, P < .0001). Portal venous plasma glutamine levels were also higher in tumor bearing rats ([Glutamine] = .47 +/- .01 Control vs. [Glutamine] = .60 +/- .02 mmol/l TBR, P < .0001). CONCLUSION Intestinal brush border membrane glutamine transport activity, transporter ATB(0) mRNA and protein levels are up-regulate in tumor-bearing rats.
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- Haroon A Choudry
- Department of Surgery, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, P.O. Box MC 850, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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Stubblefield MD, Vahdat LT, Balmaceda CM, Troxel AB, Hesdorffer CS, Gooch CL. Glutamine as a Neuroprotective Agent in High-dose Paclitaxel-induced Peripheral Neuropathy: A Clinical and Electrophysiologic Study. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2005; 17:271-6. [PMID: 15997923 DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2004.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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AIMS The appearance of peripheral neuropathy is the dose-limiting toxicity in many chemotherapy protocols, and glutamine has been proposed as a potentially neuroprotective agent in patients receiving paclitaxel. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this non-randomised study, we assessed neurologic signs and symptoms, and changes in nerve-conduction studies in 46 consecutive patients given high-dose paclitaxel either with (n=17) or without (n=29) glutamine. Neurological assessments and electrodiagnostic studies were carried out at baseline and at least 2 weeks (median 32 days) after treatment. RESULTS Patients who received glutamine developed significantly less weakness (P = 0.02), less loss of vibratory sensation (P = 0.04) and less toe numbness (P = 0.004) than controls. The per cent change in the compound motor action potential (CMAP) and sensory nerve action potential (SNAP) amplitudes after paclitaxel treatment was lower in the glutamine group, but this finding was not statistically significant in these small groups. CONCLUSIONS In this study, serial neurologic assessment of patient symptoms and signs seemed to be a better indicator of a possible glutamine effect than sensory- or motor-nerve-conduction studies. Prospective randomised trials are needed to clarify the effect of glutamine on paclitaxel and other types of chemotherapy-induced neuropathy.
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- M D Stubblefield
- Department of Neurology, Rehabilitation Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York City, NY 10021, USA.
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Savarese DMF, Savy G, Vahdat L, Wischmeyer PE, Corey B. Prevention of chemotherapy and radiation toxicity with glutamine. Cancer Treat Rev 2003; 29:501-13. [PMID: 14585260 DOI: 10.1016/s0305-7372(03)00133-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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GOALS OF THE WORK Malignancy produces a state of physiologic stress that is characterized by a relative deficiency of glutamine, a condition that is further exacerbated by the effects of cancer treatment. Glutamine deficiency may impact on normal tissue tolerance to antitumor treatment, and may lead to dose reductions and compromised treatment outcome. Providing supplemental glutamine during cancer treatment has the potential to abrogate treatment-related toxicity. We reviewed the available data on the use of glutamine to decrease the incidence and severity of adverse effects due to chemotherapy and/or radiation in cancer patients. METHODS We performed a search of the MEDLINE database during the time period 1980-2003, and reviewed the English language literature of both human and animal studies pertaining to the use of glutamine in subjects with cancer. We also manually searched the bibliographies of published articles for relevant references. MAIN RESULTS The available evidence suggests that glutamine supplementation may decrease the incidence and/or severity of chemotherapy-associated mucositis, irinotecan-associated diarrhea, paclitaxel-induced neuropathy, hepatic veno-occlusive disease in the setting of high dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation, and the cardiotoxicity that accompanies anthracycline use. Oral glutamine supplementation may enhance the therapeutic index by protecting normal tissues from, and sensitizing tumor cells to chemotherapy and radiation-related injury. CONCLUSIONS The role of glutamine in the prevention of chemotherapy and radiation-induced toxicity is evolving. Glutamine supplementation is inexpensive and it may reduce the incidence of gastrointestinal, neurologic, and possibly cardiac complications of cancer therapy. Further studies, particularly placebo-controlled phase III trials, are needed to define its role in chemotherapy-induced toxicity.
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- Diane M F Savarese
- Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
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de Blaauw I, Deutz NE, Boers W, von Meyenfeldt MF. Hepatic amino acid and protein metabolism in non-anorectic, moderately cachectic tumor-bearing rats. J Hepatol 1997; 26:396-408. [PMID: 9059963 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8278(97)80058-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS Cancer cachexia is characterized by loss of lean body mass. Under this condition peripheral proteins are broken down and transferred to visceral organs and the tumor. The liver is the principal organ in the regulation of protein and amino acid metabolism, but liver amino acid kinetics in cancer are unclear. Therefore, we examined the effects of increasing tumor loads on hepatic protein turnover and amino acid handling. METHODS A MCA-induced sarcoma was implanted subcutaneously in Lewis rats (200-225 g). Rats were studied when the tumor was 5-15% or 15-30% of body weight. Control rats were sham implanted. Under anesthesia, a primed constant infusion of para-aminohippuric acid and L-[3, 4-3H]-valine was given to calculate hepatic substrate fluxes and protein turnover. Serum alpha 2-macroglobulin concentration was measured to determine the acute phase response. RESULTS Carcass weight decreased approximately 10% in large-tumor-bearing rats (p < 0.001). Liver wet weight increased from 5.5 +/- 0.1 (g) to 5.9 +/- 0.2 in the small-tumor-bearing group and 7.3 +/- 0.3 (p < 0.001) in the large-tumor-bearing group, with minimal changes in water content. Serum alpha 2-macroglobulin concentration, essential and gluconeogenic amino acid uptake by the liver increased in large-tumor-bearing animals. This contrasted with reduced liver ammonia uptake and unchanged urea production in tumor-bearing rats. In the small-tumor-bearing group liver protein synthesis increased, whereas protein breakdown remained unchanged. In the large-tumor-bearing group protein synthesis also increased, but protein breakdown decreased to zero. CONCLUSIONS The study shows that in tumor-bearing rats, liver uptake of essential and gluconeogenic amino acids increases without significant increases in urea or glucose production. Synthesis of both structural and export proteins, e.g. acute phase proteins, increases suggesting that the liver becomes a more efficient nitrogen-sparing and active protein-synthesizing organ during the growth of a malignant tumor.
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- I de Blaauw
- Department of Surgery, Fac. II, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Heys SD, Gough DB, Khan L, Eremin O. Nutritional pharmacology and malignant disease: a therapeutic modality in patients with cancer. Br J Surg 1996; 83:608-19. [PMID: 8689201 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800830508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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It is now established that certain nutrients have a significant effect on cellular metabolism and growth, tissue repair and regeneration, and modulation of host defences. So far, however, potential clinical benefits have been difficult to demonstrate. Nevertheless, the use of nutrients in combinations seems to have promise and may be associated with a reduction in infectious complications and length of hospital stay. Nutritional pharmacology in the future may be able to improve tumour response to chemotherapy and may minimize the metabolic effect of cachexia.
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- S D Heys
- Department of Surgery, University of Aberdeen, UK
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Misra M, Duguid WP, Marliss EB. Prevention of diabetes in the spontaneously diabetic BB rat by the glutamine antimetabolite acivicin. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 1996. [DOI: 10.1139/y96-005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Oral glutamine supplementation has been found to support gastrointestinal mucosal growth and increase intestinal and systemic toxicity after chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Glutamine is also an important nutrient for rapidly proliferating tumor cells. However, it is not clear whether long-term glutamine supplementation in the tumor-bearing host has a selective benefit for host growth or tumor cell proliferation. METHODS To study the effect of glutamine in tumor-bearing animals, 30 Lewis/Wistar rats with subcutaneous mammary tumor implants (MAC-33) were randomized to receive a 3% glutamine- or 3% glycerine-enriched (control) diet for 25 days. RESULTS No significant difference was found in carcass weight, primary tumor weight, or spontaneous pulmonary metastasis with glutamine supplementation. Tumor cell cycle kinetics (aneuploidy, %S and %S [synthetic] + G2/M [growth fraction]) were similar between glutamine-supplemented and control animals. A trophic effect of glutamine on distal ileal mucosa was seen with increased DNA content (344 +/- 68 vs. 184 +/- 38 micrograms/100 mg tissue) (p < 0.05) and RNA content (435 +/- 44 vs. 335 +/- 30 micrograms/100 mg tissue) (p = 0.06) compared with control animals. No detectable differences were observed in liver or muscle, or in tumor DNA, RNA, or protein content. CONCLUSIONS These findings confirm the trophic effect of glutamine on small intestinal mucosa and suggest that glutamine can be administered to the tumor-bearing host over a long period of time without significantly stimulating tumor growth kinetics or metastasis.
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- D L Bartlett
- Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia
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Moskovitz B, Katz Y, Singer P, Nativ O, Rosenberg B. Glutamine metabolism and utilization: relevance to major problems in health care. Pharmacol Res 1994; 30:61-71. [PMID: 7831196 DOI: 10.1016/1043-6618(94)80088-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Glutamine plays an important role in normal and pathophysiological states. In this review we describe the biochemical synthesis and degradation pathways of glutamine, as well as its utilization by the immune system and in rapidly dividing cells. Also discussed are glutamine behaviour in catabolic states and the therapeutic implications of this amino acid in total parenteral nutrition, digestive diseases and cancer.
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- B Moskovitz
- Department of Urology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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Espat NJ, Copeland EM, Souba WW. Accelerated hepatic arginine transport in the tumor-bearing rat. Ann Surg Oncol 1994; 1:147-56. [PMID: 7834440 DOI: 10.1007/bf02303559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Arginine plays a pivotal role in regulating ureagenesis, polyamine biosynthesis, and nitric oxide production, metabolic pathways that may be stimulated in the liver of the tumor-bearing host. Normally, plasma arginine is excluded from the hepatocyte intracellular space by the low basal activity of its membrane transporter. We hypothesized that progressive malignant disease is associated with an increase in carrier-mediated arginine transport across the hepatocyte plasma membrane. METHODS Twenty-four adult Fischer 344 rats were implanted subcutaneously with fibrosarcomas (TBR) and were studied when the tumors were small [10 +/- 1% of body weight (BW)], medium-sized (15 +/- 1% of BW), and large (25 +/- 1% of BW). Groups of control rats (n = 24) were pair-fed to match carcass weights of the three TBR groups. Livers were excised, and hepatocyte plasma membrane vesicles (HPMVs) were prepared by Percoll density gradient centrifugation. Arginine transport by HPMVs was assayed by a rapid mixing/filtration technique. Vesicle purity and functionality were assessed by membrane enzyme marker enrichments and transportability into an osmotically active space. RESULTS Arginine uptake by HPMVs was mediated by both saturable carrier-mediated (System y+) and nonsaturable (diffusion) components. The time course of arginine uptake in HPMVs in the three groups showed similar equilibrium transport rates, indicating similar vesicle sizes. The presence of the growing tumor resulted in a 40-120% increase in System y(+)-mediated arginine transport in HPMVs. This response was dependent on tumor size and was due to a stimulation of carrier Vmax, suggesting an increase in the number of functional System y+ carriers in the hepatocyte plasma membrane. The Na(+)-dependent transport of the System A analog MeAIB was also increased, but only in rats with large tumors. CONCLUSIONS Tumor growth results in a progressive increase in hepatic arginine transport, a response mediated primarily by an increase in the activity of System y+. This accelerated transport may amplify the availability of arginine to support key arginine-dependent metabolic pathways in the hepatocyte.
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- N J Espat
- Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville
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DiGirolamo M. Metabolic alterations and lactate overproduction in insulin-resistant states. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1994; 354:203-10. [PMID: 8067287 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0939-8_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- M DiGirolamo
- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303
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Dudrick PS, Inoue Y, Espat NJ, Souba WW. Na(+)-dependent glutamine transport in the liver of tumour-bearing rats. Surg Oncol 1993; 2:205-15. [PMID: 8252210 DOI: 10.1016/0960-7404(93)90008-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In rats with advanced malignant disease, the liver extracted circulating glutamine at a ratio three times faster than the liver of control non-tumour-bearing animals. This augmented uptake occurred in spite of a fall in circulating glutamine levels, implying an increase in hepatocyte plasma membrane transport. Na(+)-dependent glutamine transport activity (System N) was increased nearly two-fold in hepatocyte plasma membrane vesicles from tumour-bearing rats; this increase in System N activity was proportional to tumour size and was due to an increase in carrier Vmax with no change in carrier affinity. Measurement of System N activity in isolated hepatocytes incubated with serum from tumour-bearing rats demonstrated a significant increase in glutamine transport compared with cells incubated with serum from control rats. These data indicate that the liver of rats with advanced malignant disease displays accelerated glutamine consumption. This increased uptake is due, in part, to enhanced carrier-mediated transport activity, and is mediated by a circulating factor(s) that is not present (or inactive) in non-tumour-bearing controls.
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- P S Dudrick
- Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville
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Medina MA, Sánchez-Jiménez F, Márquez J, Rodríguez Quesada A, Núñez de Castro I. Relevance of glutamine metabolism to tumor cell growth. Mol Cell Biochem 1992; 113:1-15. [PMID: 1640933 DOI: 10.1007/bf00230880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- M A Medina
- Laboratorio de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
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Austgen TR, Dudrick PS, Sitren H, Bland KI, Copeland E, Souba WW. The effects of glutamine-enriched total parenteral nutrition on tumor growth and host tissues. Ann Surg 1992; 215:107-13. [PMID: 1546896 PMCID: PMC1242396 DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199202000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The effects of glutamine-enriched total parenteral nutrition (TPN+GLN) were studied in tumor-bearing rats because glutamine can benefit host tissues but also may stimulate tumor growth. Rats were implanted with the methylcholanthrene-induced fibrosarcoma (MCA sarcoma) and were studied when the tumor constituted less than 5% of carcass weight (small tumor) and when the tumor constituted 10% of carcass weight (large tumor). Provision of 20% of TPN protein as glutamine produced a significant increase in the arterial glutamine level and maintained the skeletal muscle intracellular glutamine concentration (2.02 +/- 0.1 versus 1.39 +/- 0.07 mumol/g, p less than 0.01). Concurrently, hindquarter GLN fractional release increased nearly threefold (p less than 0.05) in the TPN+GLN group. Glutamine-enriched total parenteral nutrition did not affect carcass weight, tumor weight, tumor DNA content, or tumor glutaminase activity. Furthermore, DNA flow cytometric analysis did not demonstrate any difference in percentage of aneuploid tumor cells within the G1, S, or G2M cell cycles. However, the ratio of aneuploid to diploid cells within the tumor mass increased by 20% in animals receiving glutamine. Glutamine-enriched total parenteral nutrition had no effect on tumor glutathione (GSH) levels. No increase in hepatic GSH levels was observed, but gut mucosal GSH levels were 20% greater in the TPN+GLN group (p less than 0.05). The provision of glutamine-enriched TPN may be beneficial to the host by maintaining skeletal muscle glutamine stores and by supporting gut GSH biosynthesis. In this tumor model, TPN+GLN does not appear to increase tumor size, tumor DNA content, or tumor glutamine metabolism, but the ratio of tumor cells to host infiltrating cells within the tumor mass appears to be increased.
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- T R Austgen
- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville
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Rossi-Fanelli F, Cascino A, Muscaritoli M. Abnormal substrate metabolism and nutritional strategies in cancer management. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 1991; 15:680-3. [PMID: 1766060 DOI: 10.1177/0148607191015006680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Impairment of the nutritional state plays a major role in the morbidity and mortality of cancer patients. However, the opportunity of providing artificial nutritional support to these patients is still debated, because of the concern that energy substrates administered to replete the host may concomitantly stimulate tumor growth. A correct nutritional approach to cancer patients should thus be based on a thorough knowledge of both host and tumor metabolic needs and host-tumor metabolic interactions. Specific modifications of plasma levels of glucogenic, aromatic, sulfur-containing and branched-chain amino acids have been demonstrated in cancer patients, indicating a specific influence of the tumor on amino acid metabolism. Little is known about protein metabolism in neoplastic tissue. Interference with tumor growth has been attempted by deprivation of single amino acids with controversial results. Increased gluconeogenesis and insulin resistance are responsible for the two main abnormalities in carbohydrate metabolism in cancer patients, namely increased glucose turnover and impaired glucose tissue disposal. Lipid metabolism is also affected by the neoplasm: soluble factors such as "lipid-mobilizing factor" lead to increased fat mobilization from adipose tissue; plasma elimination of exogenous triglycerides has also been found to be reduced probably because of a tumor-related decrease in lipoprotein lipase activity. The differences in glucose and fat utilization between tumor and host should be considered in the nutritional approach to cancer patients. Data in this respect are controversial and have been obtained only in experimental animals.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- F Rossi-Fanelli
- III Department of Internal Medicine, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Chance WT, Cao LQ, Zhang FS, Foley-Nelson T, Fischer JE. Clenbuterol treatment increases muscle mass and protein content of tumor-bearing rats maintained on total parenteral nutrition. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 1991; 15:530-5. [PMID: 1942465 DOI: 10.1177/0148607191015005530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Treatment of tumor-bearing (TB) and control rats with the anabolic beta-2 agonist drug clenbuterol (CLE) for 14 days reduced food intake for 4 days initially. Feeding was increased in anorectic TB rats, however, during the last 7 days of drug administration. Since minimal muscle savings were observed in chow-fed TB rats treated with CLE, the anabolic effects of this drug were investigated in a second experiment on TB rats maintained on total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Sixteen days after the subcutaneous transplantation of methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas rats was begun on a 2-week schedule of TPN. One group of these rats was treated daily for 14 days with CLE, while the remaining rats received injections of saline. Additional groups of TB and nonTB rats were maintained on rat chow for this period and treated with saline. Although TB rats maintained on rat chow or TPN and treated with saline exhibited significantly decreased gastrocnemius muscle weight and protein content, treatment of TB-TPN rats with clenbuterol normalized muscle mass and increased muscle protein content significantly and increased plasma concentrations of branched-chain amino acids. These results indicate that although nutritional support of TB organisms does not result in protein repletion, the addition of an anabolic drug renders the nutritional support highly efficacious.
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- W T Chance
- University of Cincinnati, Department of Surgery, OH 45267
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Chance WT, Zhang FH, Foley-Nelson T, Fischer JE. Hyperammonemia and anorexia in Morris hepatoma-bearing rats. Physiol Behav 1991; 50:397-401. [PMID: 1684054 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90085-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Inoculation of Buffalo rats with Morris hepatoma produced significant anorexia within four weeks and reduced body weight within two weeks. Blood ammonia concentration was increased by 113% when the rats were euthanized, five days after the development of anorexia. Infusing ammonium salts into normal Buffalo rats also induced anorexia at a blood ammonia concentration comparable to that observed in the tumor-bearing rats. Although ammonia-infused rats exhibited expected increases in brain tyrosine, tryptophan, and metabolites of dopamine and serotonin, these alterations were attenuated in the tumor-bearing rats. These results indicate that hyperammonemia may be a general consequence of experimental cancer and that the increase in ammonia concentration may be of primary importance in the development of experimental cancer-induced anorexia. The rather small alterations in neurotransmitter metabolism in anorectic tumor-bearing rats deemphasize the role aberrations in DA and 5-HT systems in the development of experimental cancer anorexia.
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH
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Consistent anorexia was first observed 33 days after inoculating Fischer 344 rats with methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma. Daily treatment of a similar group of rats with the glutamine synthetase inhibitor, methionine sulfoximine, elicited significant reductions of feeding by day 29 at a dose that had no effect on nontumor-bearing rats. Blood concentrations of ammonia were elevated in both groups of tumor-bearing rats and brain ammonia level was increased in the methionine sulfoximine-treated tumor-bearing rats. Forebrain concentrations of tyrosine, tryptophan, DOPAC and 5-HIAA were elevated in both groups of tumor-bearing rats. Since ammonia is detoxified through the glutamine synthetase reaction, these results suggest that blood and brain ammonia concentrations are more important than the neurochemical consequences of ammonia detoxification for the etiology of cancer anorexia.
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH
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Chance WT, Cao LQ, Fischer JE. Tumor-induced alterations in brain neurotransmitter and plasma ammonia concentrations are normalized twenty-four hours after tumor resection. Life Sci 1991; 48:425-32. [PMID: 1671522 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(91)90498-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Tumor-induced anorexia was accompanied by significant elevations in plasma ammonia and lactate and by alteration of the plasma amino acid profile. The brains of anorectic tumor-bearing rats had increased levels of glutamine and most large neutral amino acids. Dopamine and serotonin metabolism were also increased in several brain regions of these rats. Resection of the tumor resulted in the normalization of most of these aberrations in blood and brain within 24 hrs. These results demonstrate a rapid reversal of tumor-induced biochemical alterations shortly after tumor removal and suggest that these aberrations may be secondary to hyperammonemia.
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio
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Chance WT, Cao L, Zhang FS, Fischer JE. Clenbuterol plus acivicin decrease tumor growth and increase muscle mass in rats maintained on total parenteral nutrition. Am J Surg 1991; 161:51-6. [PMID: 1899011 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9610(91)90360-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Two problems associated with supplemental nutrition of tumor-bearing organisms are control of tumor growth and reduction of cachexia. To investigate these problems, rats bearing methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas were maintained on total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for 10 to 12 days beginning 23 days after tumor inoculation. Combined treatment of one group of these rats with the glutamine antimetabolite, acivicin, and the beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, arrested tumor growth, increased skeletal muscle mass and protein content, increased gut mass, and decreased total plasma lipid levels. Resting energy expenditure and cardiac mass were increased by TPN and were increased further by acivicin plus clenbuterol. These results demonstrate that tumor growth and muscle wasting can be controlled during TPN of tumor-bearing organisms. Therefore, cachectic depletion of lean body tissue may not be obligatory in neoplastic disease.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/administration & dosage
- Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/therapeutic use
- Clenbuterol/administration & dosage
- Clenbuterol/therapeutic use
- Drug Therapy, Combination
- Intestine, Small/pathology
- Isoxazoles/administration & dosage
- Isoxazoles/therapeutic use
- Lipid Metabolism
- Liver/metabolism
- Liver/pathology
- Male
- Methylcholanthrene
- Muscle Proteins/metabolism
- Muscles/drug effects
- Muscles/pathology
- Myocardium/pathology
- Organ Size/drug effects
- Parenteral Nutrition, Total
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred F344
- Sarcoma, Experimental/chemically induced
- Sarcoma, Experimental/drug therapy
- Sarcoma, Experimental/metabolism
- Sarcoma, Experimental/pathology
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio 45267
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- J E Fischer
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio
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Chance WT, Cao L, Foley-Nelson T, Nelson JL, Fischer JE. Possible role of ammonia in experimental cancer anorexia. Brain Res 1989; 486:316-24. [PMID: 2731036 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)90518-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Plasma concentrations of ammonia were elevated significantly in tumor-bearing rats prior to the onset of anorexia and continued to increase as the tumor grew and anorexia developed. Associated with this hyperammonemia were elevated levels of brain glutamine and large neutral amino acids (phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, methionine, histidine). Concentrations of the dopamine metabolites, DOPAC or HVA were elevated in the corpus striatum, nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus and amygdala of anorectic tumor-bearing rats only, while levels of the serotonin metabolite, 5-HIAA, were increased in these brain regions in both anorectic and non-anorectic tumor-bearing rats. Infusing ammonium salts into non-tumor-bearing rats elicited anorexia and alterations in brain amino acid profile and neurotransmitter metabolism that were similar to those observed in anorectic tumor-bearing rats. Therefore, we conclude that ammonia released by tumor tissue may have a direct role in the etiology of experimental cancer anorexia.
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH
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Chance WT, Cao L, Fischer JE. Insulin and acivicin improve host nutrition and prevent tumor growth during total parenteral nutrition. Ann Surg 1988; 208:524-31. [PMID: 3140745 PMCID: PMC1493740 DOI: 10.1097/00000658-198810000-00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The effect that a 14-day treatment program of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) combined with the glutamine antimetabolite, acivicin, and anabolic hormone, insulin, has on carcass weight and muscle sparing was investigated in tumor-bearing rats. Although TPN resulted in increased carcass weight gain as compared to chow-fed tumor-bearing rats, no savings in gastrocnemius muscle could be demonstrated. The combination of TPN with daily insulin treatment elicited significant increases in both carcass weight and muscle savings, with no alteration in tumor growth. Although combining acivicin with TPN halted tumor growth and increased carcass weight, the change in carcass weight was less than that observed with the insulin-TPN combination. No muscle savings were observed in the acivicin-TPN-treated rats. Yet when acivicin and insulin were combined with TPN, tumor growth was stopped, carcass weight was gained, and muscle mass was saved. Therefore, these experiments suggest that it is possible to add lean body tissue and stabilize tumor growth in rats that receive TPN through anabolic hormone treatment combined with an inhibitor of tumor metabolism.
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH 45267
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Chance WT, Cao L, Nelson JL, Foley-Nelson T, Fischer JE. Reversal of neurochemical aberrations after tumor resection in rats. Am J Surg 1988; 155:124-30. [PMID: 2893554 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9610(88)80269-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Assessment of biochemical parameters in methylcholanthrene sarcoma-bearing rats 2 days after the onset of anorexia revealed several biochemical aberrations in blood and brain. Plasma levels of glucose were decreased and lactate concentrations were increased. The plasma and brain amino acid profiles were also greatly altered in these rats, characterized by increased brain concentrations of glutamine and large neutral amino acids. Analysis of regional neurotransmitter and metabolite levels by high-performance liquid chromatography suggested increases in the neuronal activity of dopamine and serotonin in each brain region examined. Surgical removal of the tumors in another group of anorectic tumor-bearing rats was followed by the return of normal feeding within 6 days. Associated with the normalization of food intake was the reversal of these biochemical aberrations in blood and brain. It is hypothesized that the utilization of glutamine and excretion of ammonia by tumor tissue is the precursor of these alterations in brain amino acids and neurotransmitters, which may be causing anorexia.
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio 45267-0558
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Plasma ammonia concentrations were significantly elevated by 150% in anorectic rats bearing methylcholanthrene sarcomas. Assessment of ammonia levels in blood draining these sarcomas indicated nearly a 20-fold increase as compared with venous blood in control rats, suggesting the tumor mass as the source of this increase in ammonia. Infusing increasing concentrations of ammonium salts produced anorexia and alterations in brain amino acids in normal rats that were similar to those observed in anorectic tumor-bearing rats. Therefore, these results suggest that ammonia released by tumor tissue may be an important factor in the etiology of cancer anorexia.
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- W T Chance
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH 45267
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