Association between high bile acid levels and digestive cancer

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bile acids, inflammation-cancer, digestive cancer

Abstract

Introduction: In non-physiological conditions, bile acids (BA) are considered to be endogenous inflammatory-carcinogenic agents causing alterations in plasma membranes, mitochondria, DNA, genes and epithelial cell apoptosis.

Objective: Describe the association between high bile acid levels in the intestinal lumen and the inflammation-cancer sequence, expressed as inflammatory premalignant and malignant lesions of the digestive tract.

Methods: A systematic critical review was conducted of the evidence about biomolecular mechanisms associated to high bile acid levels in the intestinal lumen and the inflammation-carcinogenesis sequence published in the databases PubMed, Medline, SciELO, LILACS and Elsevier in the period 2015-2020, laying the theoretical and metabolomic foundations of that sequence.

Results: Bile acids display toxic activity in the inflammation-cancer sequence of the digestive tract, since control is lost of its homeostasis or the anatomical-functional integrity of the hepato-vesicular-biliary-intestinal system.

Conclusions: The cellular and biomolecular mechanisms triggered by high bile acid levels provide a context for the genesis of the inflammation-cancer sequential process and its interaction with the classic, genetic and epigenetic risk factors recognized as a new pathophysiological paradigm of digestive cancer.

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Author Biographies

Felipe Neri Piñol Jiménez, Centro Nacional de Cirugía de Mínimo Acceso

 Doctor en Ciencias. Doctor en Ciencias Médicas. Especialista de II Grado en Gastroenterología. Máster en Enfermedades Infecciosas. Profesor e Investigador Titular. Miembro Titular de la Sociedad Cubana de Gastroenterología. Miembro Internacional del Colegio Americano de Gastroenterología y de la Sociedad Americana de Gastroenterología-Endoscopia. Centro Nacional de Cirugía de Mínimo Acceso. Cuba.

Néstor Emilio Clavería Centurión, Dirección Municipal de Salud, Plaza de la Revolución. Cuba.

Doctor en Medicina. Especialista de I Grado en Medicina General Integral. Profesor Auxiliar e Investigador Agregado. Máster en Urgencia y Emergencia Médica en Atención Primaria de Salud. Diplomado Educación Médica Superior.

Nilmer Segura Fernández, GastroSalud. Chiclayo, Perú.

Especialista de I Grado en Gastroenterología. Miembro Internacional de la Sociedad Cubana de Gastroenterología.  Miembro Internacional del Colegio Americano de Gastroenterología y de la Sociedad Americana de Gastroenterología-Endoscopia.  Miembro de la Asociación Española de Gastroenterología. Miembro de la Sociedad Peruana de Gastroenterología.

Juan Carlos Velastegui Bejarano, Hospital General Duran. Ecuador.

Doctor en Medicina. Especialista en Gastroenterología. Miembro de la Sociedad Americana de Gastroenterología-Endoscopia. Miembro de la Asociación de Endoscopía Bariátrica. Miembro Internacional de la Sociedad Japonesa de Endoscopia Gastrointestinal.

Pedro Segundo Proaño Toapanta, Líder del Servicio de Emergencia, Hospital General San Vicente de Paúl de Ibarra, Ecuador.

Especialista en Cirugía General y Laparoscópica, Universidad Central del Ecuador.  Cirujano, Hospital General San Vicente de Paúl de Ibarra, Ecuador.

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2021-01-28

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Piñol Jiménez FN, Clavería Centurión NE, Segura Fernández N, Velastegui Bejarano JC, Proaño Toapanta PS. Association between high bile acid levels and digestive cancer. Rev Cubana Inv Bioméd [Internet]. 2021 Jan. 28 [cited 2025 Aug. 2];40(1). Available from: https://revibiomedica.sld.cu/index.php/ibi/article/view/989

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