Thursday, 18 September 2025

Investigation of Hemoprotein Levels and Elemental Homeostasis in Brain Tumors and Their Intermolecular Interactions | Chapter 8 | Medical Science: Recent Advances and Applications Vol. 10

 

Primary tumours of the central nervous system are a rare group of diverse tumours that account for less than 2% of all tumours, but are the fourth most common cause of cancer death. The role of element homeostasis in neoplastic disease pathogenesis is beyond question. The imbalance of trace elements precisely underlies the initiation and promotion of tumour pathology. The aim of the study was to investigate blood and tissue macroelements, microelements and hemoproteins levels in brain tumours and their intermolecular interactions. Samples of blood and brain tumour tissues were taken from 12 patients with malignant brain tumours (glioma, glioblastoma, astrocytoma). Samples of tissues were taken from 7 patients who died as a result of trauma related to a road traffic accident, without connection to head and brain injury. Detection of myoglobin level was implemented by the reaction of passive hemagglutination and an immunoturbidimetric test. Catalase activity was determined by the method of Beer and Sizer. Free radical activity was determined by the method of induced biochemiluminescence. The microelements level was investigated using atomic emission spectrometry. Statistical data processing was performed using STATISTICA Base software (StatSoft Inc.). To build the networks of studied hemoprotein interactions with signalling pathways of proteins, expressed in brain tumours, molecular interaction databases (STRING, BioGrid) were used. Modern databases of signalling pathways (KEGG) suggest that in normal cells, hypoxia can lead to HIF-1A protein synthesis. ROS synthesis inhibits the PHD enzyme and triggers the release of calcium ions, and increases proliferation. Calcium ions are a triggering factor of apoptosis and cell proliferation. In this study, a significant increase (more than 7 times) of calcium concentration in blood and brain tumour tissue was detected, compared with healthy people. Myoglobin can possibly be the cell adaptation factor towards hypoxia, oxidative stress and element homeostasis violation, and myoglobin level decreasing can additionally stimulate proliferation, by apoptosis inhibition. This is one of the first studies to have examined intermolecular relationships between microelements, hemoproteins and antioxidant enzymes in gliomas, and future studies are required to validate these findings and explore their potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications.

 

 

Author(s) Details

Yazykova A.B.
Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

 

Obukhova L.M.
Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

 

Medyanik I.A.
Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics of Public Health Ministry of Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

 

Yashin K.S
Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics of Public Health Ministry of Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

 

Pimenov V.G.
Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.

 

Evdokimov I.I
Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.

 

Barinova O.V.
Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

 

Please see the book here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/msraa/v10/5124

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