Cachexia is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by negative energy balance due to increased consumption and lowered intake, leading to progressive tissue wasting and inefficient energy distribution. Once considered as passive bystander, metabolism is now acknowledged as a regulator of biological functions and disease progression. This shift in perspective mirrors the evolving understanding of cachexia itself, no longer viewed merely as a secondary consequence of cancer but as an active process. However, metabolic dysregulations in cachexia are currently studied in an organ-specific manner, failing to be fully integrated into a comprehensive framework that explains their functional roles in disease progression. Thus, in this review, we aim to provide a general overview of the various metabolic alterations with a potential systemic impact.
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Blood
January 2025
IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
Previous studies have reported that chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) shows a de novo chromatin activation pattern as compared to normal B cells. Here, we explored whether the level of chromatin activation is related to the clinical behavior of CLL. We identified that in some regulatory regions, increased de novo chromatin activation is linked to clinical progression whereas, in other regions, it is associated with an indolent course.
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January 2025
National Amyloidosis Centre, Division of Medicine, University College London, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Importance: Patients with transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloid infiltration are increasingly diagnosed at earlier disease stages with no heart failure (HF) symptoms and a wide range of cardiac amyloid infiltration.
Objective: To characterize the clinical phenotype and natural history of asymptomatic patients with ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study analyzed data of all patients at 12 international centers for amyloidosis from January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2023.
Acta Neurol Belg
January 2025
The Department of Neurological Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms, including olfactory dysfunction. Prior studies have shown that olfaction deteriorates with disease progression, however fluctuations in olfaction and related PD symptoms have been less explored. This study aimed to investigate correlations between changes in odor identification ability and PD symptoms.
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January 2025
Department of Medical Biology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Among the mechanisms, cancer cells develop to elude immune system, immune regulation and the use of molecules that play important roles in immune escape stand out. One of these molecules, the human leukocyte antigen G (HLA-G), plays an important role in the maintenance of immune tolerance and contributes to the progression of cancer by exerting an immunosuppressive effect. By creating an immunosuppressive field in the microscopic environment of the tumor, the aberrant expression of HLA-G facilitates the evading of cancer cells from the immune system and contributes to the progression of the disease.
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