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ReviewLipids in health and disease2022

Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity: targeting high-density lipoproteins to limit the damage?

Carmelita Abrahams, Nicholas J Woudberg, Sandrine Lecour

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Review in Lipids in health and disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carmelita AbrahamsCardioprotection Group, Cape Heart Institute and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7935, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5991-4921
Nicholas J WoudbergCardioprotection Group, Cape Heart Institute and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7935, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6089-7097
Sandrine LecourCardioprotection Group, Cape Heart Institute and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7935, South Africa. Sandrine.lecour@uct.ac.za.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1942-8974
University of Cape Town · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Doxorubicin (DOX) is an anthracycline antibiotic frequently used against a wide range of cancers, including breast cancer. Although the drug is effective as a treatment against cancer, many patients develop heart failure (HF) months to years following their last treatment with DOX. The challenge in preventing DOX-induced cardiotoxicity is that symptoms present after damage has already occurred in the myocardium. Therefore, early biomarkers to assess DOX-induced cardiotoxicity are urgently needed. A better understanding of the mechanisms involved in the toxicity is important as this may facilitate the development of novel early biomarkers or therapeutic approaches. In this review, we discuss the role of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles and its components as possible key players in the early development of DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. HDL particles exist in different subclasses which vary in composition and biological functionality. Multiple cardiovascular risk factors are associated with a change in HDL subclasses, resulting in modifications of their composition and physiological functions. There is growing evidence in the literature suggesting that cancer affects HDL subclasses and that healthy HDL particles enriched with sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) protect against DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. Here, we therefore discuss associations and relationships between HDL, DOX and cancer and discuss whether assessing HDL subclass/composition/function may be considered as a possible early biomarker to detect DOX-induced cardiotoxicity.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsCardiotoxicityAnthracyclinesAntibiotics, AntineoplasticBiomarkersDoxorubicinFemaleHumansLipoproteins, HDLMyocardiumAnthracyclinesAntibiotics, AntineoplasticBiomarkersDoxorubicinLipoproteins, HDLAnthracyclineCardiac toxicityCardio-oncologyHigh-density lipoproteins

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PMID36050733
PMCPMC9434835
OpenAlexW4294163163

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