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Calorie restriction outperforms bariatric surgery in a murine model of obesity and triple-negative breast cancer
Kristina K. Camp, … , Randy J. Seeley, Stephen D. Hursting
Kristina K. Camp, … , Randy J. Seeley, Stephen D. Hursting
Published September 12, 2023
Citation Information: JCI Insight. 2023;8(19):e172868. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.172868.
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Research Article Metabolism Oncology

Calorie restriction outperforms bariatric surgery in a murine model of obesity and triple-negative breast cancer

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Abstract

Obesity promotes triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), and effective interventions are urgently needed to break the obesity-TNBC link. Epidemiologic studies indicate that bariatric surgery reduces TNBC risk, while evidence is limited or conflicted for weight loss via low-fat diet (LFD) or calorie restriction (CR). Using a murine model of obesity-driven TNBC, we compared the antitumor effects of vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) with LFD, chronic CR, and intermittent CR. Each intervention generated weight and fat loss and suppressed tumor growth relative to obese mice (greatest suppression with CR). VSG and CR regimens exerted both similar and unique effects, as assessed using multiomics approaches, in reversing obesity-associated transcript, epigenetics, secretome, and microbiota changes and restoring antitumor immunity. Thus, in a murine model of TNBC, bariatric surgery and CR each reverse obesity-driven tumor growth via shared and distinct antitumor mechanisms, and CR is superior to VSG in reversing obesity’s procancer effects.

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Kristina K. Camp, Michael F. Coleman, Tori L. McFarlane, Steven S. Doerstling, Subreen A. Khatib, Erika T. Rezeli, Alfor G. Lewis, Alexander J. Pfeil, Laura A. Smith, Laura W. Bowers, Farnaz Fouladi, Weida Gong, Elaine M. Glenny, Joel S. Parker, Ginger L. Milne, Ian M. Carroll, Anthony A. Fodor, Randy J. Seeley, Stephen D. Hursting

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Cecal Hungatella abundance associates with both body weight loss and tumor mass.

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(A) Observed SVs. (B) Shannon index. (C) NMDS plot of Bray-Curtis distances. (D) Relative contribution of the 10 most frequent genera to each group. Spearman correlation between all genera and (E) percentage body weight change and (F) tumor mass. (G) Spearman correlation coefficients of the 20 genera showing the highest correlation coefficients with percentage body weight change and tumor mass. n = 10/group. *FDRq < 0.05, **FDRq < 0.01, ***FDRq < 0.001.

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