Project description:Mitochondrial and oxidative stress have been related to obesity and breast cancer, and this cancer is more frequent and more aggressive in postmenopausal women with obesity. To investigate if Mexican-Mestizo postmenopausal women with breast cancer and obesity presented different somatic mutations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) when compared to women with normal body mass index.
Project description:In this work, transcriptoma of invasive breast carcinoma was studied by means of microarray expression in Mexican women who are overweight or obese. The dysfunction of the adipokines signaling pathways has recently been linked to more aggressive features of breast cáncer. We hypothesized that there are changes related to the signaling of adipokines in the expression profile of invasive breast carcinoma of Mexican women with overweight or obesity. The objectives were as follows: 1) Determine the expression profile of tumour tissue of Mexican women who are overweight or obese by comparing tumoral tissue and non -tumoral tissue, both from the same patient, 2) Identification of over- or underexpressed genes involved in signalling pathways related to adipokines and the tumour process, 3) Identify the signalling pathways that presented genes with expression changes and were related to adipokines and the tumoural process.
Project description:D-galactose orally intake ameliorate DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis by modulating microbiota composition and quorum sensing. The increased abundance of bacteroidetes and decreased abundance of firmicutes was confirmed. By D-galactose treatment, Bacteroides population was increased and prevotella, ruminococcus was decreased which is related to atopic dermatitis.
