Parity history determines a systemic inflammatory response to spread of ovarian cancer in naturally aged mice
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Urzúa Tobar, Ulises
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Chacón, Carlos
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Lizama, Luis
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Sarmiento, Sebastián
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Villalobos, Pía
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Kroxato, Belén
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Marcelain Cubillos, Katherine
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González Burgos, María Julieta
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2018-06-27T14:51:01Z
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2018-06-27T14:51:01Z
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2017
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Aging and Disease, Vol. 8 (5) October 2017
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10.14336/AD.2017.0110
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/149284
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Aging intersects with reproductive senescence in women by promoting a systemic low-grade chronic inflammation that predisposes women to several diseases including ovarian cancer (OC). OC risk at menopause is significantly modified by parity records during prior fertile life. To date, the combined effects of age and parity on the systemic inflammation markers that are particularly relevant to OC initiation and progression at menopause remain largely unknown. Herein, we profiled a panel of circulating cytokines in multiparous versus virgin C57BL/6 female mice at peri-estropausal age and investigated how cytokine levels were modulated by intraperitoneal tumor induction in a syngeneic immunocompetent OC mouse model. Serum FSH, LH and TSH levels increased with age in both groups while prolactin (PRL) was lower in multiparous respect to virgin mice, a finding previously observed in parous women. Serum CCL2, IL-10, IL-5, IL-4, TNF-alpha, IL1-beta and IL-12p70 levels increased with age irrespective of parity status, but were specifically reduced following OC tumor induction only in multiparous mice. Animals developed hemorrhagic ascites and tumor implants in the omental fat band and other intraperitoneal organs by 12 weeks after induction, with multiparous mice showing a significantly extended survival. We conclude that previous parity history counteracts aging-associated systemic inflammation possibly by reducing the immunosuppression that typically allows tumor spread. Results suggest a partial impairment of the M2 shift in tumor-associated macrophages as well as decreased stimulation of regulatory B-cells in aged mice. This long term, tumor-concurrent effect of parity on inflammation markers at menopause would be a contributing factor leading to decreased OC risk.
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Fondecyt grant, from the Ministry of Education, Chile
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