Skeletal muscle regeneration in cancer cachexia. (May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bossola, Maurizio; Marzetti, Emanuele; Rosa, Fausto; Pacelli, Fabio
• Is Part Of: Clinical and experimental pharmacology and physiology. Volume 43:Number 5(2016:May)
• Page Start: 522
• Page End: 527
• Publication Date: 2016-05
• Subjects: atrophy -- cachexia -- cancer -- MyoD -- Necdin -- Pax7 -- regeneration -- skeletal muscle -- wasting; Clinical pharmacology -- Periodicals; Pharmacology, Experimental -- Periodicals; Physiology, Experimental -- Periodicals; Physiology, Pathological -- Periodicals; 615.1
• DOI: 10.1111/1440-1681.12559
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0305-1870

Abstract

Summary: Muscle wasting is the most important phenotypic and clinical feature of cancer cachexia, and the principal cause of impaired physical function, fatigue, and respiratory complications. Muscle loss has been attributed to a variable combination of reduced nutritional intake and an imbalance between anabolic and catabolic processes. It has been suggested that defective skeletal muscle regeneration may also contribute to muscle wasting in cancer patients. However, there is little in vitro or in vivo data available, in either animals or in humans, regarding skeletal muscle regeneration in cancer wasting. The aim of the present review is to define the role of skeletal muscle regeneration in the muscle wasting of cancer patients and to determine possible therapeutic implications.