Increases in calorie consumption and sedentary lifestyles are fuelling a global pandemic of
cardiometabolic diseases, including coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus …

The global prevalence of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus,
steatohepatitis, myocardial infarction, and stroke has increased dramatically over the past …

Microplastics are major pollutants in marine environment and may have health effects on
aquatic organisms. In this study, we used two sizes (5 and 50 μm diameter) of fluorescent …

Mammalian cell membranes are composed of a complex array of glycerophospholipids and
sphingolipids that vary in head-group and acyl-chain composition. In a given cell type …

Background The development of plasma biomarkers could facilitate early detection, risk
assessment and therapeutic monitoring in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Alterations in …

As a result of recent advances, remarkable images revealing the distribution of complex
lipids in tissues are now generated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging …

The clearest function of membrane lipids is to form amphipathic bilayers that surround cells
and organelles and block leakage of hydrophilic compounds while housing membrane …

Ceramides are the major lipid constituent of lamellar sheets present in the intercellular
spaces of the stratum corneum. These lamellar sheets are thought to provide the barrier …

The secretory production of recombinant proteins by the Gram-negative bacterium
Escherichia coli has several advantages over intracellular production as inclusion bodies. In …

Eukaryotic organisms as well as some prokaryotes and viruses contain sphingolipids, which
are defined by a common structural feature, ie, a “sphingoid base” backbone such as D …