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Metastatic cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide despite significant advancements in diagnosis and treatment. Biomarkers are one of the most promising diagnostic tools that are used alongside traditional diagnostic tools in cancer patients. DAMPs are intracellular molecules released in response to cellular stress, tissue injury, and cell death. There have been shown to be associated with worsening prognosis among such patients, and some DAMPs could potentially be used as predictive biomarkers of metastatic status. The goal of this study is to investigate DAMP expression and the probability that certain DAMPs could be predictive biomarkers of the metastatic stage in various cancer types. Forty cancer patients at Naresuan University Hospital, Thailand, were enrolled. Then, an investigation of HSP90, HMGB1, S100A9, and ATP expression and cytokine/chemokine profiling in serum was performed using an immunological-based assay. We assessed the predictive biomarker candidates and the association between DAMP expression and cytokines/chemokines using an ROC curve analysis and a correlation regression analysis. The results showed that HSP90 has strong potential as a metastatic predictive biomarker, with a cutoff value of 25.46 ng/mL (AUC 0.8207, sensitivity 82.61%, specificity 75.00%, 95% CI 0.6860–0.9553). This was followed by HMGB1 and S100A9, which exhibited sensitivity of 82.61 and 65.22%, and specificity of 68.75 and 56.25%, respectively. Interestingly, the candidate DAMPs negatively correlate with various serum cytokines, for example, HMGB1 vs. IL-15 (slope 88.05, R 0.3297, p-value 0.005), HMGB1 vs. IFN-γ (slope 2.235, R 0.3052, p-value 0.0013) and HSP90 vs. IFN-γ (slope 0.0614, R 0.2187, p-value 0.008), suggesting that they are highly elevated in advanced metastatic tumors, which is possibly associated with the immunomodulation effect. We postulated that HSP90, HMGB1, and S100A9 have the potential to be predictive biomarkers for supporting tumor metastasis categorization using histopathology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: There is no information about the exercise performances of the hemoglobin E trait (Hb EA), which is the second most prevalent hemoglobinopathy found in Southeast Asia and Mediterranean. The purpose of the present study was to compare both anaerobic and aerobic exercise performances between young male subjects with Hb EA and with normal hemoglobin (A2A)., Methods: One hundred and twenty-two subjects underwent Hb EA Test screening, which revealed the presence of 17 subjects with Hb EA and 105 subjects with A2A. Thirteen subjects in each of the Hb EA and the normal hemoglobin groups were matched for race, age, height, weight, BMI, %body fat and physical activity profiles. All subjects performed the peak power output and anaerobic capacity tests using the Wingate protocol and the direct VO2max tests using a bicycle ergometer. The results were analyzed with the unpaired t-tests., Results: The Hb EA subjects had lower (P<0.05, unpaired t-test) relative peak anaerobic power (15.58±0.44 W.kg-1, mean±SEM), relative anaerobic capacity (6.50±0.16 W.kg-1) and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) (27.39±1.65 mL.kg-1.min-1) when compared to normal hemoglobin group (17.39±0.48 W.kg-1, 7.21±0.18 W.kg-1 and 33.05±1.59 mL.kg-1.min-1, respectively)., Conclusions: The present study suggests that anaerobic exercise and aerobic exercise performances of the Hb EA subjects may be lower than matched normal hemoglobin subjects using the Wingate and the VO2max tests. However, the mechanisms of these results should be further investigated.