Physical training-regulated microRNAs as potential biomarkers and therapeutics of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in Breast Cancer: in vivo study, in vitro in iPS-derived cardiomyocytes and clinical with patient analysis

• Grant number: 22/02339-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2022
• Status: Discontinued
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Physiology - Physiology of Organs and Systems
• Principal Investigator: Edilamar Menezes de Oliveira
• Grantee: Alex Cleber Improta Caria
• Host Institution: Escola de Educação Física e Esporte (EEFE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/17783-2 - MicroRNAs as therapeutics of cardiotoxicity in co-culture of embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and human cardiac fibroblasts stimulated with doxorubicin., BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Cardiotoxicity promotes an increase in reactive oxygen species, inflammation, apoptosis, cardiac fibrosis, and these remain the main problems in the treatment of Cancer patients using doxorubicin. These associated processes induce myocardial dysfunction, decreasing the left ventricular ejection fraction, generating long-term heart failure. Some treatments have been described as attenuating these processes, including physical training. Evidence indicates that physical training can inhibit doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity, reducing the production of reactive oxygen species, minimizing the expression of pro-apoptotic and pro-inflammatory markers, reducing cardiac fibrosis, as well as preventing cardiopulmonary atrophy, increasing aerobic capacity and physical exertion, in addition to attenuating tumor growth. However, the molecular mechanisms that govern these benefits induced by physical training in this context remain largely unknown, mainly mechanisms associated with microRNAs, their target genes and signaling pathways. Thus, we propose to investigate the effects of aerobic physical training on the modulation of microRNAs in an animal model Of Breast Cancer treated with doxorubicin, for the identification of microRNAs as biomarkers and validation of a signaling pathway associated with cardiotoxicity, inflammation and apoptosis, which can be beneficially altered by physical training. Subsequently, the microRNA that was beneficially altered by physical training will be modulated in vitro in cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells and also analyzed in the peripheral blood of breast Cancer patients treated with doxorubicin. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

IMPROTA-CARIA, ALEX CLEBER; FERRARI, FILIPE; GOMES, JOAO LUCAS PENTEADO; VILLALTA, PALOMA BRASILIO; SOCI, URSULA PAULA RENO; STEIN, RICARDO; OLIVEIRA, EDILAMAR M.. Dysregulated microRNAs in type 2 diabetes and breast cancer: Potential associated molecular mechanisms. WORLD JOURNAL OF DIABETES, v. 15, n. 6, p. 13-pg., 2024-06-15. (22/02339-4)

GUILHERME DE ANDRADE COSTA; JAMARY OLIVEIRA FILHO; LUANA FERREIRA-CAMPOS; ALEX CLEBER IMPROTA-CARIA; CRISTIANO MACEDO; MARCELO VINCENZO SARNO FILHO; LEONARDO SILVA ROEVER BORGES; ROQUE ARAS JÚNIOR. Stroke Is Associated with Refractory Hypertension among Resistant and Refractory Patients in a Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences, v. 36, 2023-07-10. (22/02339-4)

COSTA-PEREIRA, LILIANE VANESSA; MENDES, BRUNO FERREIRA; MAGALHAES, CAIQUE OLEGARIO DINIZ; RODRIGUES, CINTIA MARIA; DE ANDRADE, JULLIA ALVES; DE PEREIRA, RAMONA RAMALHO SOUZA; ESTEVES, ELIZABETHE ADRIANA; CASSILHAS, RICARDO CARDOSO; ANDRADE, ERIC FRANCELINO; GRIPP, FERNANDO; et al. Cardiometabolic and Cellular Adaptations to Multiple vs. Single Daily HIIT Sessions in Wistar Rats: Impact of Short-Term Detraining. METABOLITES, v. 14, n. 8, p. 17-pg., 2024-08-01. (22/02339-4)

IMPROTA-CARIA, ALEX C.; SOCI, URSULA P. R.; RODRIGUES, LUIS F.; FERNANDES, TIAGO; OLIVEIRA, EDILAMAR M.. MicroRNAs regulating pathophysiological processes in obesity: the impact of exercise training. CURRENT OPINION IN PHYSIOLOGY, v. 33, p. 7-pg., 2023-06-01. (18/22579-4, 22/00531-5, 15/22814-5, 21/06229-6, 22/02339-4)

SANTOS, PEDRO HENRIQUE SILVA; RODRIGUES, LUIS FELIPE; IMPROTA-CARIA, ALEX CLEBER; VOLTARELLI, VANESSA AZEVEDO. Metabolic adaptations in McArdle's disease and its mechanisms. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, v. N/A, p. 2-pg., 2023-02-20. (22/02339-4, 21/06229-6)