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Neurotoxic Effect of Doxorubicin Treatment on Cardiac Sympathetic Neurons

Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2022
Abstract:
Doxorubicin (DOXO) remains amongst the most commonly used anti-cancer agents for the treatment of solid tumors, lymphomas, and leukemias. However, its clinical use is hampered by cardiotoxicity, characterized by heart failure and arrhythmias, which may require chemotherapy interruption, with devastating consequences on patient survival and quality of life. Although the adverse cardiac effects of DOXO are consolidated, the underlying mechanisms are still incompletely understood. It was previously shown that DOXO leads to proteotoxic cardiomyocyte (CM) death and myocardial fibrosis, both mechanisms leading to mechanical and electrical dysfunction. While several works focused on CMs as the culprits of DOXO-induced arrhythmias and heart failure, recent studies suggest that DOXO may also affect cardiac sympathetic neurons (cSNs), which would thus represent additional cells targeted in DOXO-cardiotoxicity. Confocal immunofluorescence and morphometric analyses revealed alterations in SN innervation density and topology in hearts from DOXO-treated mice, which was consistent with the reduced cardiotropic effect of adrenergic neurons in vivo. Ex vivo analyses suggested that DOXO-induced denervation may be linked to reduced neurotrophic input, which we have shown to rely on nerve growth factor, released from innervated CMs. Notably, similar alterations were observed in explanted hearts from DOXO-treated patients. Our data demonstrate that chemotherapy cardiotoxicity includes alterations in cardiac innervation, unveiling a previously unrecognized effect of DOXO on cardiac autonomic regulation, which is involved in both cardiac physiology and pathology, including heart failure and arrhythmias.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Keywords:
Doxorubicin; cardiac innervation; cardiotoxicity; nerve growth factor; sympathetic neurons
Elenco autori:
Moro, Nicola; Dokshokova, Lolita; Perumal Vanaja, Induja; Prando, Valentina; Cnudde, Sophie Julie A; Di Bona, Anna; Bariani, Riccardo; Schirone, Leonardo; Bauce, Barbara; Angelini, Annalisa; Sciarretta, Sebastiano; Ghigo, Alessandra; Mongillo, Marco; Zaglia, Tania
Autori di Ateneo:
GHIGO Alessandra
Link alla scheda completa:
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1884802
Pubblicato in:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
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