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- Title
Inherent aerobic capacity-dependent differences in breast carcinogenesis.
- Authors
Thompson, Henry J.; Jones, Lee W.; Koch, Lauren G.; Britton, Steven L.; Neil, Elizabeth S.; McGinley, John N.
- Abstract
Although regular physical activity is associated with improvement in aerobic capacity and lower breast cancer risk, there are heritable sets of traits that affect improvement in aerobic capacity in response to physical activity. Although aerobic capacity segregates risk for a number of chronic diseases, the effect of the heritable component on cancer risk has not been evaluated. Therefore, we investigated breast carcinogenesis in rodent models of heritable fitness in the absence of induced physical activity. Female offspring of N:NIH rats selectively bred for low (LIAC) or high (HIAC) inherent aerobic capacity were injected intraperitoneally with 1-methyl-1-nitrosurea (70 mg/kg body wt). At study termination 33 weeks post-carcinogen, cancer incidence (14.0 versus 47.3%; P < 0.001) and multiplicity (0.18 versus 0.85 cancers per rat; P < 0.0001) were significantly decreased in HIAC versus LIAC rats, respectively. HIAC had smaller visceral and subcutaneous body fat depots than LIAC and activity of two proteins that regulated the mammalian target of rapamycin, protein kinase B (Akt), and adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase were suppressed and activated, respectively, in HIAC. Although many factors distinguish between HIAC and LIAC, it appears that the protective effect of HIAC against breast carcinogenesis is mediated, at least in part, via alterations in core metabolic signaling pathways deregulated in the majority of human breast cancers.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer risk factors; AEROBIC capacity; CARCINOGENESIS; PHYSICAL activity; BIOLOGICAL fitness
- Publication
Carcinogenesis, 2017, Vol 38, Issue 9, p920
- ISSN
0143-3334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/carcin/bgx066