The lifecycle of skeletal muscle mitochondria in obesity

CA Pileggi, G Parmar, ME Harper - Obesity Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Skeletal muscle possesses dramatic metabolic plasticity that allows for the rapid adaptation
in cellular energy transduction to meet the demands of the organism. Obesity elicits changes …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms for mitochondrial adaptation to exercise training in skeletal muscle

JC Drake, RJ Wilson, Z Yan - The FASEB Journal, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Exercise training enhances physical performance and confers health benefits, largely
through adaptations in skeletal muscle. Mitochondrial adaptation, encompassing …

Ampk phosphorylation of Ulk1 is required for targeting of mitochondria to lysosomes in exercise-induced mitophagy

RC Laker, JC Drake, RJ Wilson, VA Lira… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Mitochondrial health is critical for skeletal muscle function and is improved by exercise
training through both mitochondrial biogenesis and removal of damaged/dysfunctional …

Targeting long non-coding RNA to therapeutically upregulate gene expression

C Wahlestedt - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
The majority of currently available drugs and tool compounds exhibit an inhibitory
mechanism of action and there is a relative lack of pharmaceutical agents that are capable …

Inhibition of natural antisense transcripts in vivo results in gene-specific transcriptional upregulation

F Modarresi, MA Faghihi, MA Lopez-Toledano… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The ability to specifically upregulate genes in vivo holds great therapeutic promise. Here we
show that inhibition or degradation of natural antisense transcripts (NATs) by single …

The long non-coding RNAs in neurodegenerative diseases: novel mechanisms of pathogenesis

P Riva, A Ratti, M Venturin - Current Alzheimer Research, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Long-non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), RNA molecules longer than 200
nucleotides, have been involved in several biological processes and in a growing number of …

Evolving and expanding the roles of mitophagy as a homeostatic and pathogenic process

ÅB Gustafsson, GW Dorn - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The central functions fulfilled by mitochondria as both energy generators essential for tissue
homeostasis and gateways to programmed apoptotic and necrotic cell death mandate tight …

Roles of long noncoding RNAs in brain development, functional diversification and neurodegenerative diseases

P Wu, X Zuo, H Deng, X Liu, L Liu, A Ji - Brain research bulletin, 2013 - Elsevier
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been attracting immense research interest, while
only a handful of lncRNAs have been characterized thoroughly. Their involvement in the …

Parkinson's disease

B Thomas, MF Beal - Human molecular genetics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder
characterized by a profound and selective loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons …

High responders to resistance exercise training demonstrate differential regulation of skeletal muscle microRNA expression

PK Davidsen, IJ Gallagher… - Journal of applied …, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
MicroRNAs (miRNA), small noncoding RNA molecules, may regulate protein synthesis,
while resistance exercise training (RT) is an efficient strategy for stimulating muscle protein …