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Análises moleculares da região controle do DNA mitocondrial de astrocitomas na população paraense
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2012-06-06) COSTA JÚNIOR, Carlos Antonio da; ANSELMO, Nilson Praia; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6518287721873199
The central nervous system cancer represents 2% of all malignancies in the world population and 23% of cases of childhood cancer. In Brazil, an estimated 4,820 cases of cancer in men and women in 4450 to the year 2012. Gliomas are tumors of the central nervous system formed from glial cells, making up over 70% of brain tumors. The most important property of gliomas is the ability of immune evasion. Age, ethnicity, gender and occupation may be considered risk factors for the development of gliomas, and are twice as common in African-Americans. The astrocytoma is the most common glial tumor, constituting about 75% of cases of gliomas. These tumors are classified into four levels according to the World Health Organization. Mitochondrial DNA is related to the development and progression of various types of tumors. Mitochondrion is responsible for cellular energy balance and is involved in triggering apoptosis responding to oxidative stress. Mutations in DLOOP can change DNA replication rates and increase the developing cancer risk. We analyzed 29 samples astrocytoma classified according to the WHO. Our data suggest that low-grade astrocytomas may be related to genetic inheritance, making some patients with specific mutations or polymorphisms more susceptible to the risk of developing the disease, and high grade may be related to prolonged exposure to carcinogenics. Polymorphisms and mutations have been identified which correlate with some risk of developing astrocytomas and disease progression. The insertion of two or more nucleotides at microsatellite regions may cause instability and contribute to the cancer onset. Deletion at the site 16132 may be a high-grade astrocytoma marker, as well as insertion of two or more cytosines to the site 16190 can be an astrocytoma specific marker. Heteroplasmy may be decisive for the emergence and / or progression of high-grade astrocytomas.
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Avaliação antitumoral de amidas graxas derivadas de triglicerídeos de óleo de andiroba (Carapa guianensis aublet) em linhagem celular de glioma in vitro
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-06-26) SILVA, Nágila Monteiro da; OLIVEIRA, Fábio Rodrigues de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4538804050936779; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2761-3440; NASCIMENTO, José Luiz Martins do; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7216249286784978; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3647-9124
Glioma is a rare type of tumour, which acts on Nervous System in a very aggressive way, presents problems in its diagnosis, low effective treatments and survival time less than one year after diagnosis. Due to factors such as intratumoral cell variability, inefficient chemotherapy drugs, adaptive resistance development to the drugs and tumour recurrence after resection, the development of new drugs becomes necessary. In this sense, molecules analogues to endocannabinoids such as fatty amides are a good alternative, since scientific literature shows that they can act as antitumor agents through the interaction with the endocannabinoid system, which modulates many metabolic pathways related to cancer. In this work, two fatty amides synthetized from andiroba (Carapa guianensis aublet) using lipase from Candida antarctica-B (CAL-B) oil were tested aiming to evaluated its potential in the glioma treatment in vitro (C6). AGs reduced C6 cell viability in a dose dependent manner while were not toxic to normal glia cells. Both FAA1 and FAA2 caused apoptosis cell death and also loss of mitochondrial integrity probably by inhibiting PI3k/AKT pathway. Furthermore, FAAs were capable of reduce the C6 migratory potential. In conclusion FAAs have a promising potential to treat glioma-type brain cancer.
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Avaliação da integridade genômica mitocondrial em gliomas de alto e baixo grau na população paraense
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-12-14) COSTA JÚNIOR, Carlos Antonio da; BORGES, Bárbara do Nascimento; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0676220027193876
Cancer is characterized by fast abnormal cells proliferation which grow beyond their normal limits and may invade adjacent or distant tissue. Cancer CNS represents 2% of all cancers in the world, being slightly higher in men than in women. Mitochondria are responsible for producing most of the cellular ATP by oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), may also act through glycolysis for same purpose, not requiring only oxygen. This option is a particular cancer cell property, also known as the Warburg effect. One hypothesis to explain this metabolic change may be related to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) defects caused by OXPHOS where these mutations can lead cancer cells to glycolysis. Eight mtDNA regions (D-LOOP, ND1, ND3, CO I, CO II CO III, ATPase 6 and ATPase 8) were analyzed in patients’ neoplastic tissues with glial cell cancer in Pará population, relating the data with the pathological and clinical characteristics of the patients. Among the changes found, the complex I seem to be decisive for the progression of high-grade tumors, as well as changes indel seem compromising important structures for OXPHOS. Deletions 4977 bp, when combined with other changes in ND1 / ND3 or heteroplasmias suggest poor prognosis, however, seem to have a reduced risk when changes in ND1 and ND3 are simultaneous.