1. Differential Tissue Fatty Acids Profiling between Colorectal Cancer Patients with and without Synchronous Metastasis
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Valeria Tutino, Nicola Veronese, Gianluigi Giannelli, Valentina De Nunzio, Giampiero De Leonardis, Maria Gabriella Caruso, Dionigi Lorusso, Maria Notarnicola, Gisella Marangelli, Vito Guerra, Notarnicola, M., Lorusso, D., Tutino, V., De Nunzio, V., De Leonardis, G., Marangelli, G., Guerra, V., Veronese, N., Caruso, M.G., and Giannelli, G.
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0301 basic medicine ,Colorectal cancer ,Cell ,Catalysis ,Article ,Metastasis ,Inorganic Chemistry ,lcsh:Chemistry ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,lipidomic analysis ,Fatty Acids, Omega-6 ,Fatty Acids, Omega-3 ,medicine ,colon cancer ,metastasis ,fatty acids ,Humans ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Neoplasm Metastasis ,gamma-Linolenic Acid ,Molecular Biology ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Spectroscopy ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,business.industry ,Organic Chemistry ,Fatty Acids ,Fatty acid ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Eicosapentaenoic acid ,Computer Science Applications ,Red blood cell ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,chemistry ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,lcsh:QD1-999 ,Eicosapentaenoic Acid ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Synchronous metastasis ,Cancer research ,metastasi ,lipidomic analysi ,business ,Colorectal Neoplasms ,Polyunsaturated fatty acid - Abstract
The early detection of colorectal cancer and determination of its metastatic potential are important factors to set up more efficacious therapeutic strategies. In the present study, we hypothesize that fatty acids analysis in colorectal cancer patients can discriminate between metastatic and non-metastatic patients. Fifty-one consecutive patients with histologically proven colorectal cancer were enrolled in the study and the presence of synchronous metastasis was detected in 25 of these 51 patients. Fatty acid profile analysis in red blood cell membranes was not able to discriminate the metastatic colorectal cancer patients from those without metastasis. However, significant differences in the tumor tissue fatty acid profile were found in metastatic cancer patients when compared to patients without metastasis. Metastatic patients showed significantly lower percentages of Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and higher levels of γ-linolenic acid (GLA), a n-3- and n-6-Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), respectively. Our findings, suggesting that membrane lipid rearrangement could influence the cellular function and make the cell more prone to metastasis, offer the opportunity to develop nutritional strategies that may be helpful in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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- 2018