Pharmacogenomics: driving personalized medicine

W Sadee, D Wang, K Hartmann, AE Toland… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Personalized medicine tailors therapies, disease prevention, and health maintenance to the
individual, with pharmacogenomics serving as a key tool to improve outcomes and prevent …

Pharmacological modulation of cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) as a therapeutic strategy for hypercholesterolemia

MYC Lim, HK Ho - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the availability of many therapeutic options, the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia
remains high. There exists a significant unmet medical need for novel drugs and/or …

GWAS meta-analysis of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy implicates multiple hepatic genes and regulatory elements

PH Dixon, AP Levine, I Cebola, MMY Chan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a pregnancy-specific liver disorder affecting
0.5–2% of pregnancies. The majority of cases present in the third trimester with pruritus …

Changes in circulating bile acid subtypes in response to weight-loss diets are associated with improvements in glycemic status and insulin resistance: The POUNDS …

Y Heianza, X Wang, J Rood, CB Clish, GA Bray… - Metabolism, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Various primary and secondary bile acids (BAs) may play pivotal roles in
glucose/insulin metabolism. We investigated whether changes in specific BA subtypes were …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in bile acid subtypes and improvements in lipid metabolism and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk: the Preventing Overweight Using Novel …

Y Heianza, Q Xue, J Rood, CB Clish, GA Bray… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Distinct circulating bile acid (BA) subtypes may play roles in regulating lipid
homeostasis and atherosclerosis. Objectives We investigated whether changes in …

Therapeutic properties of Inonotus obliquus (Chaga mushroom): A review

PTY Ern, TY Quan, FS Yee, ACY Yin - Mycology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Inonotus obliquus, also known as Chaga, is a medicinal mushroom that has been used for
therapeutic purposes since the sixteenth century. Collections of folk medicine record the …

[HTML][HTML] A non-coding disease modifier of pancreatic agenesis identified by genetic correction in a patient-derived iPSC line

S Kishore, E De Franco, FL Cardenas-Diaz… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
GATA6 is a critical regulator of pancreatic development, with heterozygous mutations in this
transcription factor being the most common cause of pancreatic agenesis. To study the …

Intestinal population in host with metabolic syndrome during administration of chitosan and its derivatives

C Yan, C Zhang, X Cao, B Feng, X Li - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chitosan and its derivatives can alleviate metabolic syndrome by different regulation
mechanisms, phosphorylation of AMPK (AMP-activated kinase) and Akt (also known as …

A meta-analysis of the pooled impact of CYP7A1 single nucleotide polymorphisms on serum lipid responses to statins

MYC Lim, JR Tee, WP Yau, HK Ho - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background and Aims: Various publications suggested that there is an association between
CYP7A1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and a reduced response to statin therapy …

Genes potentially associated with familial hypercholesterolemia

S Mikhailova, D Ivanoshchuk, O Timoshchenko… - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
This review addresses the contribution of some genes to the phenotype of familial
hypercholesterolemia. At present, it is known that the pathogenesis of this disease involves …