Adipose-tissue plasticity in health and disease

A Sakers, MK De Siqueira, P Seale, CJ Villanueva - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Adipose tissue, colloquially known as" fat," is an extraordinarily flexible and heterogeneous
organ. While historically viewed as a passive site for energy storage, we now appreciate that …

Metabolomics and type 2 diabetes risk: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

J Morze, C Wittenbecher, L Schwingshackl… - Diabetes …, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
BACKGROUND Due to the rapidly increasing availability of metabolomics data in
prospective studies, an update of the meta evidence on metabolomics and type 2 diabetes …

Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) complexes in neurodegeneration

H Querfurth, HK Lee - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2021 - Springer
Novel targets to arrest neurodegeneration in several dementing conditions involving
misfolded protein accumulations may be found in the diverse signaling pathways of the …

Role of branched-chain amino acid metabolism in the pathogenesis of obesity and type 2 diabetes-related metabolic disturbances BCAA metabolism in type 2 …

F Vanweert, P Schrauwen, E Phielix - Nutrition & diabetes, 2022 - nature.com
Branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolism has been considered to have an emerging
role in the pathogenesis of metabolic disturbances in obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) …

Insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease

CE Kosmas, MD Bousvarou… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Insulin resistance (IR) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) represent two universal public
health hazards, especially in today's Western societies. A causal-effect relationship has …

Branched-chain amino acids: catabolism in skeletal muscle and implications for muscle and whole-body metabolism

G Mann, S Mora, G Madu, OAJ Adegoke - Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) are critical for skeletal muscle and whole-body
anabolism and energy homeostasis. They also serve as signaling molecules, for example …

[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiome fermentation determines the efficacy of exercise for diabetes prevention

Y Liu, Y Wang, Y Ni, CKY Cheung, KSL Lam, Y Wang… - Cell Metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Exercise is an effective strategy for diabetes management but is limited by the phenomenon
of exercise resistance (ie, the lack of or the adverse response to exercise on metabolic …

Citrus polymethoxyflavones attenuate metabolic syndrome by regulating gut microbiome and amino acid metabolism

SL Zeng, SZ Li, PT **ao, YY Cai, C Chu, BZ Chen… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is intricately linked to dysregulation of gut microbiota and host
metabolomes. Here, we first find that a purified citrus polymethoxyflavone-rich extract …

The critical role of the branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) catabolism-regulating enzymes, branched-chain aminotransferase (BCAT) and branched-chain α-keto …

A Dimou, V Tsimihodimos, E Bairaktari - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), leucine, isoleucine and valine, are essential amino
acids widely studied for their crucial role in the regulation of protein synthesis mainly through …

Animal models of metabolic syndrome: a review

SK Wong, KY Chin, FH Suhaimi, A Fairus… - Nutrition & …, 2016 - Springer
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) consists of several medical conditions that collectively predict
the risk for cardiovascular disease better than the sum of individual conditions. The risk of …