Abstract 2312P
Background
Anthracyclines are an effective and widely used chemotherapy agent in the treatment of multiple solid organ tumors and hematologic malignancies. The use of anthracyclines as a standard cancer therapy is limited by the potential for the development of cardiac dysfunction, arrhythmias, and clinical heart failure. In recent five years, it was demonstrated that proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), a lipid metabolism-related protein, is a key orchestrator of immune infiltration in myocardial and cancer tissues and could regulate cardiac fibrosis and inflammation. PCSK9 is a protein with key roles in hepatic low density lipoprotein (LDL) homeostasis. PCSK9 systemic levels are associated to HOMA score and high insulin levels. Dapagliflozin exerts systemic ant-inflammatory properties and cardioprotective effects in diabetic and non-diabetic patients.
Methods
Female C57Bl/6 mice were untreated (Sham, n=6) or treated for 10 days with doxorubicin i.p at 2.17 mg/kg (DOXO, n=6), DAPA at 12 mg/kg (DAPA, n=6) or doxorubicin combined to DAPA (DOXO-DAPA, n=6). After treatments, plasma levels of PCSK9, IL-1β and CRP were analyzed through selective anti-mouse ELISA methods. Myocardial and liver expression of NLRP3-inflammasome and IL-1β were analyzed through ELISA method in tissue lysates after treatments.
Results
DAPA associated to DOXO reduces significantly systemic levels of PCSK9 (-37,5% vs DOXO group, p<0,001). IL-1β and CRP levels were also reduced (-47,3 and – 28,5 %, respectively; p<0.05 for both). Myocardial and liver IL-1β and NLRP3 inflammasome expression were also reduced in DAPA/DOXO group vs DOXO and control, indicated beneficial metabolic and anti-inflammatory effects of SGLT2i.
Conclusions
DAPA has been shown to reduce systemic levels of PCSK9 in preclinical models of short-term DOXO cardiotoxicity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first evidence of SGLT-2/PCSK9 crass-talk in cardioncology therefore the overall picture of the study open a new window on the beneficial properties of DAPA against anthracyclines side effects.
Clinical trial identification
Editorial acknowledgement
Legal entity responsible for the study
Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione G Pascale.
Funding
Ministero della Salute.
Disclosure
All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
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