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Ketogenic diets enhance oxidative stress and radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts.

ABSTRACT: Ketogenic diets are high in fat and low in carbohydrates as well as protein which forces cells to rely on lipid oxidation and mitochondrial respiration rather than glycolysis for energy metabolism. Cancer cells (relative to normal cells) are believed to exist in a state of chronic oxidative stress mediated by mitochondrial metabolism. The current study tests the hypothesis that ketogenic diets enhance radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts by enhancing oxidative stress.Mice bearing NCI-H292 and A549 lung cancer xenografts were fed a ketogenic diet (KetoCal 4:1 fats: proteins+carbohydrates) and treated with either conventionally fractionated (1.8-2 Gy) or hypofractionated (6 Gy) radiation as well as conventionally fractionated radiation combined with carboplatin. Mice weights and tumor size were monitored. Tumors were assessed for immunoreactive 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal-(4HNE)-modified proteins as a marker of oxidative stress as well as proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and ?H2AX as indices of proliferation and DNA damage, respectively.The ketogenic diets combined with radiation resulted in slower tumor growth in both NCI-H292 and A549 xenografts (P < 0.05), relative to radiation alone. The ketogenic diet also slowed tumor growth when combined with carboplatin and radiation, relative to control. Tumors from animals fed a ketogenic diet in combination with radiation showed increases in oxidative damage mediated by lipid peroxidation as determined by 4HNE-modified proteins as well as decreased proliferation as assessed by decreased immunoreactive PCNA.These results show that a ketogenic diet enhances radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts by a mechanism that may involve increased oxidative stress.

SUBMITTER: Allen BG

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3954599 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ketogenic diets enhance oxidative stress and radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts.

Allen Bryan G BG Bhatia Sudershan K SK Buatti John M JM Brandt Kristin E KE Lindholm Kaleigh E KE Button Anna M AM Szweda Luke I LI Smith Brian J BJ Spitz Douglas R DR Fath Melissa A MA

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20130606 14

<h4>Purpose</h4>Ketogenic diets are high in fat and low in carbohydrates as well as protein which forces cells to rely on lipid oxidation and mitochondrial respiration rather than glycolysis for energy metabolism. Cancer cells (relative to normal cells) are believed to exist in a state of chronic oxidative stress mediated by mitochondrial metabolism. The current study tests the hypothesis that ketogenic diets enhance radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts by enhancing oxidative ...[more]

PMID: 23743570

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Ketogenic diets enhance oxidative stress and radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts.

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Ketogenic diets enhance oxidative stress and radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts.

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