Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Focus on Doxorubicin, Trastuzumab, and Sunitinib
Joint Authors
Berrino, L.
De Angelis, A.
Gorini, Stefania
Malara, Natalia
Rosano, Giuseppe
Ferraro, Elisabetta
Source
Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-03-18
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Many cancer therapies produce toxic side effects whose molecular mechanisms await full elucidation.
The most feared and studied side effect of chemotherapeutic drugs is cardiotoxicity.
Also, skeletal muscle physiology impairment has been recorded after many chemotherapeutical treatments.
However, only doxorubicin has been extensively studied for its side effects on skeletal muscle.
Chemotherapeutic-induced adverse side effects are, in many cases, mediated by mitochondrial damage.
In particular, trastuzumab and sunitinib toxicity is mainly associated with mitochondria impairment and is mostly reversible.
Vice versa, doxorubicin-induced toxicity not only includes mitochondria damage but can also lead to a more robust and extensive cell injury which is often irreversible and lethal.
Drugs interfering with mitochondrial functionality determine the depletion of ATP reservoirs and lead to subsequent reversible contractile dysfunction.
Mitochondrial damage includes the impairment of the respiratory chain and the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential with subsequent disruption of cellular energetic.
In a context of increased stress, AMPK has a key role in maintaining energy homeostasis, and inhibition of the AMPK pathway is one of the proposed mechanisms possibly mediating mitochondrial toxicity due to chemotherapeutics.
Therapies targeting and protecting cell metabolism and energy management might be useful tools in protecting muscular tissues against the toxicity induced by chemotherapeutic drugs.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gorini, Stefania& De Angelis, A.& Berrino, L.& Malara, Natalia& Rosano, Giuseppe& Ferraro, Elisabetta. 2018. Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Focus on Doxorubicin, Trastuzumab, and Sunitinib. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1212040
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gorini, Stefania…[et al.]. Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Focus on Doxorubicin, Trastuzumab, and Sunitinib. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1212040
American Medical Association (AMA)
Gorini, Stefania& De Angelis, A.& Berrino, L.& Malara, Natalia& Rosano, Giuseppe& Ferraro, Elisabetta. Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Focus on Doxorubicin, Trastuzumab, and Sunitinib. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1212040
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1212040