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Overweight in mice, induced by perinatal programming, exacerbates doxorubicin and trastuzumab cardiotoxicity

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Purpose

Trastuzumab (TRZ) is believed to potentiate doxorubicin (DOX) cardiotoxicity, resulting in left ventricular dysfunction. There is some evidence that overweight could influence anticancer drug-induced cardiotoxicity, though no study has evaluated the impact of moderate overweight, induced by postnatal nutritional programming, on the cardiotoxic effects of DOX alone or in combination with TRZ.

Methods

Immediately after birth, litters of C57BL/6 mice were either maintained at 9 pups (normal litter, NL) or reduced to 3 (small litter, SL) in order to induce programming of ~15 % overweight through postnatal overfeeding. At 4 months, NL and SL mice received a single intra-peritoneal injection of either saline, DOX (6 mg/kg), TRZ (10 mg/kg) or both (DOX–TRZ). Transthoracic echocardiography was performed 24 h before as well as 10 and 20 days after treatments.

Results

Twenty days after DOX administration, systolic dysfunction was observed only in the overweight SL group, while NL mice group had a normal left ventricular ejection fraction. However, in the NL group, functional impairment appeared when TRZ was co-administered. Forty-eight hours after drug administration, gene expression of natriuretic peptides (ANP, BNP) appeared to be potentiated in DOX–TRZ mice of both the NL and SL group, whereas the expression of β-MHC increased significantly in overweight SL mice only.

Conclusions

In an acute model of DOX cardiotoxicity, moderately overweight adult mice were more sensitive to cardiac systolic impairment. Moreover, our results confirm the potentiating action of TRZ on DOX-induced cardiotoxicity in lean mice.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Françoise Bechet for technical assistance and Mr. Philip Bastable for English revision of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by grants from the French Ministry of Research, the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the Société Française de Cardiologie (SFC), the Regional Council of Burgundy, the Association de Cardiologie de Bourgogne (ACB) and the French Government through a fellowship granted by the French Embassy in Egypt (Institut Français d’Egypte).

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  1. Laboratoire de Physiopathologie et Pharmacologie Cardio-Métaboliques (LPPCM), Inserm UMR866, Faculties of Health Sciences, University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, 7 Bd Jeanne d’Arc, 21000, Dijon, France

    Charles Guenancia, Olivier Hachet, Mona Aboutabl, Na Li, Eve Rigal, Yves Cottin, Luc Rochette & Catherine Vergely

  2. Cardiology Department, University Hospital, Dijon, France

    Charles Guenancia, Olivier Hachet & Yves Cottin

  3. Pharmacology Group, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Research Division, National Research Centre (ID: 60014618), 33 El Bohouth St., Dokki, P.O. 12622, Giza, Egypt

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Guenancia, C., Hachet, O., Aboutabl, M. et al. Overweight in mice, induced by perinatal programming, exacerbates doxorubicin and trastuzumab cardiotoxicity. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 77, 777–785 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-016-2995-9

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