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Aggregation of erythrocytes and their membranes flexibility in patients with cancer-associated anemia: Mechanisms of changes under the influence of epoetin alfa

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The relationships between the red blood cell (RBC) membrane elasticity and RBC aggregation in healthy individuals and in patients with anemia of malignant tumors treated with human erythropoietin drug epoetin alfa (EA) were analyzed. It was found that prior to the treatment of patients, incubation of RBCs with EA was accompanied by an increase of RBC deformability and the reduction of their aggregation (RBCA). In these circumstances the two characteristics of the RBC microrheology correlated negatively with each other (r =–0.734, p < 0.05). In contrast, aggregation and deformability of RBCs from healthy individuals increased under the influence of EA and positively correlated with each other (r = 0.580, p < 0.05). After a 4-week treatment of patients with EA, aggregation response of the patients’ RBCs was increased by 29% (p < 0.05) and was close to that of healthy RBCs. This change of the RBC aggregation response may be connected with an alteration of the sensitivity of the membrane cationic channel to EA and an increase of the cell deformability. This possibility was supported by experiments with the use of Ca2+-channel blocker verapamil and Ca2+-chelating agent EDTA. Under these conditions a decrease of the RBC aggregation varied from 40 to 50% (p < 0.05). It was suggested that the effectors of calcium regulatory cascade upon exposure to EA may be membrane integrin receptors of type IIb–IIIa. This assumption was confirmed by experiments employing the inhibitors of these receptors (tirofibam and integrelin) and a preparation of monoclonal antibodies against IIb–IIIa receptors (monafram), which produced a significant decrease (20–30%, p < 0.05) of the RBC aggregation. Thus, our findings suggest that the altered aggregation response of RBCs in anemic patients with malignant tumors can be restored by the correction of anemia with epoetin alfa.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Muravyov, I.A. Tikhomirova, E.P. Petrochenko, N.V. Kislov, Ju.V. Malysheva, 2016, published in Biologicheskie Membrany, 2016, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 422–428.

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Muravyov, A.V., Tikhomirova, I.A., Petrochenko, E.P. et al. Aggregation of erythrocytes and their membranes flexibility in patients with cancer-associated anemia: Mechanisms of changes under the influence of epoetin alfa. Biochem. Moscow Suppl. Ser. A 11, 62–67 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990747816040176

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