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1. Nutrition and Chronobiology as Key Components of Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Interventions for Fibromyalgia and Associated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Narrative and Critical Review

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Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carrasco-Querol, N; Cabricano-Canga, L; Hernández, NB; Goncalves, AQ; Angelats, RC; Ariza, MP; Martín-Borràs, C; Montesó-Curto, P; Blanco, EC; Llorca, MRD; Martín, CA, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and Carrasco-Querol, N; Cabricano-Canga, L; Hernández, NB; Goncalves, AQ; Angelats, RC; Ariza, MP; Martín-Borràs, C; Montesó-Curto, P; Blanco, EC; Llorca, MRD; Martín, CA

Abstract

Fibromyalgia (FM) is often accompanied by chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). It is a poorly understood disorder that mainly affects women and leads to chronic pain, fatigue, and insomnia, among other symptoms, which decrease quality of life. Due to the inefficiency of current pharmacological treatments, increasing interest is being directed towards non-pharmacological multicomponent therapies. However, nutrition and chronobiology are often overlooked when developing multicomponent therapies. This narrative and critical review explore the relevance of nutritional and chronobiological strategies in the therapeutic management of FM and the often-associated CFS. Reviewed literature offers scientific evidence for the association of dietary habits, nutrient levels, body composition, gut microbiota imbalance, chronobiological alterations, and their interrelation with the development and severity of symptoms. This review highlights the key role of nutrition and chronobiology as relevant and indispensable components in a multidisciplinary approach to FM and CFS.

Published
2024

2. Heart as a target organ in 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin toxicity: decreased beta-adrenergic responsiveness and evidence of increased intracellular calcium.

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Canga, L, Levi, R, and Rifkind, A B

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The heart has not been regarded as a major target organ of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) toxicity notwithstanding that lethal cardiac dysfunction can occur in the absence of histopathological changes. To assess possible TCDD cardiotoxicity, we studied the effect of TCDD five days after treatment (10 micrograms/kg of body weight; single dose given i.p. in corn oil) on the contractility of guinea pig right ventricular papillary muscle. Controls were treated with corn oil. TCDD treatment significantly decreased beta-adrenergic responsiveness. In papillary muscles from TCDD-treated guinea pigs, the positive inotropic effect of isoproterenol (0.03-0.3 microM) was decreased by a mean of 65% (P less than 0.001), and the enhancement in the velocity of relaxation was 60% less than in the controls (P less than 0.05). On the other hand, TCDD treatment did not alter the positive inotropic effect of lower concentrations of isoproterenol (0.1-10 nM). After TCDD, responsiveness to low-frequency stimulation (0.1 and 0.25 Hz) was enhanced, responsiveness to increases in extracellular Ca2+ concentration was attenuated, and isoproterenol-elicited aftercontractions in K+-depolarized preparations were increased in magnitude. Collectively, the latter findings suggest that in addition to decreasing beta-adrenergic responsiveness, TCDD increases the intracellular Ca2+ concentration in papillary muscle. Finally, slow Ca2+ channels were not blocked after TCDD treatment, inasmuch as isoproterenol restored contractility equally effectively in K+-depolarized TCDD-treated and control papillary muscles. Our findings indicate that TCDD causes a specific pattern of cardiac dysfunction in a mammalian species, selectively augmenting or decreasing different cardiac responses. The cardiac changes are consistent with reported membrane effects of TCDD; further, they suggest that the heart may be a major target organ for TCDD toxicity.

Published
1988
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3. Non-linear analysis of heart rate variability and its application to predict hypotension during spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery

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Canga, L., Augusto Navarro, Bolea, J., Remartinez, J. M., Laguna, P., and Bailon, R.

Abstract

A non-linear analysis of heart rate variability is carried out through two complexity measures (Correlation Dimension and Pointwise Correlation Dimension) and two regularity measures (Approximate Entropy and Sample Entropy) in order to predict hypotension episodes occurred during spinal anesthesia in cesarean delivery. These methods are applied to RR-interval series, during which woman adopts two alternative positions, one physiologically relaxed (PR) and one physiologically stressed (PS). Results show that women who developed hypotension have significantly higher (p-value = 0.05) complexity measures at PR position, (and significantly lower values for the PS position), than those who did not developed the disease. Regarding the regularity measures, women who developed hypotension have lower values, but not arriving to significance, during PS position than those who did not developed it, whereas those values remain almost constant for PR position.

4. Nutrition and Chronobiology as Key Components of Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Interventions for Fibromyalgia and Associated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Narrative and Critical Review.

Author

Carrasco-Querol N, Cabricano-Canga L, Bueno Hernández N, Gonçalves AQ, Caballol Angelats R, Pozo Ariza M, Martín-Borràs C, Montesó-Curto P, Castro Blanco E, Dalmau Llorca MR, and Aguilar Martín C

Subjects
Female, Humans, Quality of Life, Nutritional Status, Fibromyalgia therapy, Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic therapy, Chronic Pain
Abstract

Fibromyalgia (FM) is often accompanied by chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). It is a poorly understood disorder that mainly affects women and leads to chronic pain, fatigue, and insomnia, among other symptoms, which decrease quality of life. Due to the inefficiency of current pharmacological treatments, increasing interest is being directed towards non-pharmacological multicomponent therapies. However, nutrition and chronobiology are often overlooked when developing multicomponent therapies. This narrative and critical review explore the relevance of nutritional and chronobiological strategies in the therapeutic management of FM and the often-associated CFS. Reviewed literature offers scientific evidence for the association of dietary habits, nutrient levels, body composition, gut microbiota imbalance, chronobiological alterations, and their interrelation with the development and severity of symptoms. This review highlights the key role of nutrition and chronobiology as relevant and indispensable components in a multidisciplinary approach to FM and CFS.

Published
2024
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5. Hypersensitivity to methoxamine in atria isolated from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.

Author

Canga L and Sterin-Borda L

Subjects
Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists pharmacology, Animals, Aspirin pharmacology, Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Epoprostenol physiology, Heart Atria drug effects, In Vitro Techniques, Indomethacin pharmacology, Lipoxygenase Inhibitors, Male, Rats, Rats, Inbred Strains, Thromboxanes physiology, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental physiopathology, Methoxamine pharmacology, Myocardial Contraction drug effects
Abstract

The reactivity to methoxamine (Met) of atria isolated from the hearts of normal and from acutely streptozotocin-diabetic rats has been studied. Met (1 X 10(-6) M) increased the tension of both normal and diabetic atria, but in diabetic atria, the dose-response curve to Met was shifted to the left and the efficacy of Met was enhanced. Inhibitors of alpha-adrenoceptors blocked, in a competitive manner, the positive inotropic effect induced by Met in both types of atrial preparations. Inhibitors of the cyclo-oxygenase pathway for arachidonic acid metabolism blocked the atrial response to Met in non-diabetic as well as in diabetic atria. The inhibition of prostacyclin synthetase prevented the effect of Met in normal atria, while blockers of thromboxane generation inhibited it in diabetic ones. Agents that inhibit the activity of lipoxygenase(s) significantly reduced the positive inotropic action induced by Met in diabetic atria but failed to modify it in non-diabetic preparations. These results show that diabetic atria are more sensitive to Met than normal atria. In diabetes the response to alpha-adrenoceptor stimulation could be mediated by oxidative product generated via thromboxane synthetase and lipoxygenase(s) activities; whereas in normal preparations the action of Met may involve the release of prostacyclin.

Published
1986
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