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Blocking ActRIIB and restoring appetite reverses cachexia and improves survival in mice with lung cancer

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  • Andre Lima Queiroz

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Ezequiel Dantas

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Shakti Ramsamooj

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Anirudh Murthy

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Mujmmail Ahmed

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Elizabeth R. M. Zunica

    (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)

  • Roger J. Liang

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Jessica Murphy

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

  • Corey D. Holman

    (Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Curtis J. Bare

    (Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Gregory Ghahramani

    (Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Zhidan Wu

    (Pfizer Global R&D)

  • David E. Cohen

    (Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • John P. Kirwan

    (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)

  • Lewis C. Cantley

    (Weill Cornell Medicine)

  • Christopher L. Axelrod

    (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)

  • Marcus D. Goncalves

    (Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medicine)

Abstract

Cancer cachexia is a common, debilitating condition with limited therapeutic options. Using an established mouse model of lung cancer, we find that cachexia is characterized by reduced food intake, spontaneous activity, and energy expenditure accompanied by muscle metabolic dysfunction and atrophy. We identify Activin A as a purported driver of cachexia and treat with ActRIIB-Fc, a decoy ligand for TGF-β/activin family members, together with anamorelin (Ana), a ghrelin receptor agonist, to reverse muscle dysfunction and anorexia, respectively. Ana effectively increases food intake but only the combination of drugs increases lean mass, restores spontaneous activity, and improves overall survival. These beneficial effects are limited to female mice and are dependent on ovarian function. In agreement, high expression of Activin A in human lung adenocarcinoma correlates with unfavorable prognosis only in female patients, despite similar expression levels in both sexes. This study suggests that multimodal, sex-specific, therapies are needed to reverse cachexia.

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  • Andre Lima Queiroz & Ezequiel Dantas & Shakti Ramsamooj & Anirudh Murthy & Mujmmail Ahmed & Elizabeth R. M. Zunica & Roger J. Liang & Jessica Murphy & Corey D. Holman & Curtis J. Bare & Gregory Ghahra, 2022. "Blocking ActRIIB and restoring appetite reverses cachexia and improves survival in mice with lung cancer," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-17, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-32135-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32135-0
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