TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gunasekara, Nadira
AU  - Clauss, Dorothea
AU  - Voss, Anika
AU  - Schurz, Konstantin
AU  - Fleck, Katharina
AU  - Neu-Gil, Pablo
AU  - Bloch, Wilhelm
TI  - The Influence of an Acute Endurance Intervention on Breast Cancer Cell Growth-A Pilot Study.
JO  - International journal of molecular sciences
VL  - 26
IS  - 9
SN  - 1422-0067
CY  - Basel
PB  - Molecular Diversity Preservation International
M1  - DKFZ-2025-00991
SP  - 3976
PY  - 2025
AB  - Exercise potentially inhibits tumor growth. It remains unclear which processes mediate these effects. Alterations of cytokine concentration in serum can influence cancer cell growth and may cause cell growth inhibition. This pilot study examines whether exercise-induced conditioning in serum can directly affect tumor cells. It focuses on serum collected before and after acute endurance exercise and its impact in vitro. Participants underwent a 1 h endurance training on a cycle ergometer. Samples were collected before, after, and two hours post-exercise. MDA-MB-231 cells were incubated with serum, and cell vitality and proliferation were assessed. Cytokine arrays identified relevant cytokine concentration changes. After identifying CXCL9 as a possible contributor to inhibitory effects, we inhibited the CXCR3 pathway and reassessed vitality. Exercise-conditioned serum significantly reduced cell vitality and proliferation post-intervention and after resting. Cytokine arrays revealed changes in multiple concentrations, and the inhibition of CXCL9 resulted in growth inhibitory effects. Our findings suggest that serum conditioned by an endurance intervention causes changes in cancer cell growth. Based on our observations, the alterations in serum cause growth-inhibitory effects, possibly mediated through the CXCR3 axis. This study provides preliminary evidence supporting the role of exercise in modulating the cancer cell growth directly by changes in serum.
KW  - Humans
KW  - Pilot Projects
KW  - Breast Neoplasms: pathology
KW  - Breast Neoplasms: metabolism
KW  - Breast Neoplasms: blood
KW  - Female
KW  - Cell Proliferation
KW  - Cell Line, Tumor
KW  - Receptors, CXCR3: metabolism
KW  - Chemokine CXCL9: blood
KW  - Chemokine CXCL9: metabolism
KW  - Cytokines: blood
KW  - Cytokines: metabolism
KW  - Exercise: physiology
KW  - Adult
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Physical Endurance
KW  - Cell Survival
KW  - Endurance Training
KW  - exercise oncology (Other)
KW  - myokines (Other)
KW  - sports medicine (Other)
KW  - Receptors, CXCR3 (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - Chemokine CXCL9 (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - Cytokines (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - CXCR3 protein, human (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - CXCL9 protein, human (NLM Chemicals)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40362215
DO  - DOI:10.3390/ijms26093976
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/301319
ER  -