Cancer cachexia and its pathophysiology: links with sarcopenia, anorexia and asthenia

S Peixoto da Silva, JMO Santos… - Journal of cachexia …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome characterized by a progressive loss of skeletal
muscle mass, along with adipose tissue wasting, systemic inflammation and other metabolic …

Sex differences in inflammation and muscle wasting in aging and disease

C Della Peruta, B Lozanoska-Ochser… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Only in recent years, thanks to a precision medicine-based approach, have treatments
tailored to the sex of each patient emerged in clinical trials. In this regard, both striated …

Biomarkers of cancer cachexia

A Loumaye, JP Thissen - Clinical biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Cachexia is a complex multifactorial syndrome, characterized by loss of skeletal muscle and
fat mass, which affects the majority of advanced cancer patients and is associated with poor …

Mediators of cachexia in cancer patients

JM Argilés, FJ López-Soriano, S Busquets - Nutrition, 2019 - Elsevier
Alterations in amino acid and protein metabolism—particularly in skeletal muscle—are a key
feature of cancer that contributes to the cachexia syndrome. Thus, skeletal muscle protein …

Shared and divergent epigenetic mechanisms in cachexia and sarcopenia

L Yedigaryan, M Gatti, V Marini, T Maraldi… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Significant loss of muscle mass may occur in cachexia and sarcopenia, which are major
causes of mortality and disability. Cachexia represents a complex multi-organ syndrome …

Emerging role of extracellular vesicles in mediating cancer cachexia

SV Chitti, P Fonseka… - Biochemical Society …, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Cancer cachexia is a multifactorial metabolic syndrome characterized by the rapid loss of
skeletal muscle mass with or without the loss of fat mass. Nearly 50–80% of all cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding tumor anabolism and patient catabolism in cancer-associated cachexia

A Schcolnik-Cabrera, A Chávez-Blanco… - American journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cachexia is a multifactorial paraneoplastic syndrome commonly associated with advanced
stages of cancer. Cachexia is responsible for poor responses to antitumoral treatment and …

Therapeutic implications of miRNAs for muscle-wasting conditions

L Yedigaryan, M Sampaolesi - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNA molecules that are mainly involved in
translational repression by binding to specific messenger RNAs. Recently, miRNAs have …

A pound of flesh: what cachexia is and what it is not

E Berardi, L Madaro, B Lozanoska-Ochser, S Adamo… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Body weight loss, mostly due to the wasting of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, is the
hallmark of the so-called cachexia syndrome. Cachexia is associated with several acute and …

[HTML][HTML] Role of exosomal microRNAs and myomiRs in the development of cancer cachexia-associated muscle wasting

R Marinho, PSM Alcântara, JP Ottoch… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cachexia is a complex metabolic syndrome that promotes great weight loss, with marked
muscle mass wasting. In the last years, many efforts have been directed to improve the …