Cancer-associated cachexia—understanding the tumour macroenvironment and microenvironment to improve management

JM Argilés, FJ López-Soriano, B Stemmler… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cachexia is a devastating, multifactorial and often irreversible systemic syndrome
characterized by substantial weight loss (mainly of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue) that …

Mitochondrial dysfunction: roles in skeletal muscle atrophy

X Chen, Y Ji, R Liu, X Zhu, K Wang, X Yang… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Mitochondria play important roles in maintaining cellular homeostasis and skeletal muscle
health, and damage to mitochondria can lead to a series of pathophysiological changes …

Mitochondrial dysfunction and skeletal muscle atrophy: Causes, mechanisms, and treatment strategies

GB Kubat, E Bouhamida, O Ulger, I Turkel, G Pedriali… - Mitochondrion, 2023 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle, which accounts for approximately 40% of total body weight, is one of the
most dynamic and plastic tissues in the human body and plays a vital role in movement …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging targets and treatments for sarcopenia: a narrative review

S Cacciatore, R Calvani, I Esposito, C Massaro… - Nutrients, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Sarcopenia is characterized by the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass,
strength, and function, significantly impacting overall health and quality of life in older adults …

Muscle delivery of mitochondria-targeted drugs for the treatment of sarcopenia: rationale and perspectives

F Bellanti, A Lo Buglio, G Vendemiale - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
An impairment in mitochondrial homeostasis plays a crucial role in the process of aging and
contributes to the incidence of age-related diseases, including sarcopenia, which is defined …

Targeting mitochondria and oxidative stress in cancer-and chemotherapy-induced muscle wasting

JR Huot, D Baumfalk, A Resendiz… - Antioxidants & Redox …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Cancer is frequently associated with the early appearance of cachexia, a
multifactorial wasting syndrome. If not present at diagnosis, cachexia develops either as a …

Age is just a number: progress and obstacles in the discovery of new candidate drugs for sarcopenia

HJ Kim, DW Jung, DR Williams - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sarcopenia is a disease characterized by the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and
function that occurs with aging. The progression of sarcopenia is correlated with the onset of …

Mitochondrial antioxidant SkQ1 attenuates C26 cancer-induced muscle wasting in males and improves muscle contractility in female tumor-bearing mice

S Tsitkanou, F Morena da Silva… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of cancer cachexia (CC). Mitochondrial reactive
oxygen species (ROS) are elevated in muscle shortly after tumor onset. Targeting …

Mitochondrial involvement in sarcopenia

C Affourtit, JE Carré - Acta Physiologica, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sarcopenia lowers the quality‐of‐life for millions of people across the world, as accelerated
loss of skeletal muscle mass and function contributes to both age‐and disease‐related …

Selpercatinib combination with the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant MitoQ effectively suppresses RET–mutant thyroid cancer

W Chen, S Dream, PY Leung, PK Wu, S Wong… - NPJ Precision …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic alternation of REarranged during Transfection (RET) that leads to constitutive RET
activation is a crucial etiological factor for thyroid cancer. RET is known to regulate …