Hyperthermia: from diagnostic and treatments to new discoveries.
2012
Hyperthermia is an important approach for the treatment of several diseases. Hyperthermia is also thought to
induce hypertrophy of skeletal muscles in vitro and in vivo, and has been used as a therapeutic tool for millennia. In the
first part of our work, we revise several relevant patents related to the utilization of hyperthermia for the treatment and diagnostic
of human diseases. In the second part, we present exciting new data on the effects of forced and natural overexpression
of HSP72, using murine in vitro (muscle cells) and ex vivo (primary skeletal muscles) models. These studies help
to demonstrate that hyperthermia effects are orchestrated by tight coupling between gene expression, protein function, and
intracellular Ca2+ signaling pathways with a key role for calcium-induced calcium release. We hope that the review of current
patents along with previous unknown information on molecular signaling pathways that underlie the hypertrophy response
to hyperthermia in skeletal muscles may trigger the curiosity of scientists worldwide to explore new inventions
that fully utilize hyperthermia for the treatment of muscle diseases.
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