Lipid metabolism in regulation of macrophage functions

J Yan, T Horng - Trends in cell biology, 2020‏ - cell.com
Macrophages are cells of the innate immune system that regulate the maintenance of tissue
homeostasis, host defense during pathogen infection, and tissue repair in response to tissue …

Lipid droplets: platforms with multiple functions in cancer hallmarks

ALS Cruz, EA Barreto, NPB Fazolini, JPB Viola… - Cell death & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Lipid droplets (also known as lipid bodies) are lipid-rich, cytoplasmic organelles that play
important roles in cell signaling, lipid metabolism, membrane trafficking, and the production …

Lipid-droplet-accumulating microglia represent a dysfunctional and proinflammatory state in the aging brain

J Marschallinger, T Iram, M Zardeneta, SE Lee… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Microglia become progressively activated and seemingly dysfunctional with age, and
genetic studies have linked these cells to the pathogenesis of a growing number of …

Lipid droplets and polyunsaturated fatty acid trafficking: Balancing life and death

M Danielli, L Perne, E Jarc Jovičić… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Lipid droplets are fat storage organelles ubiquitously distributed across the eukaryotic
kingdom. They have a central role in regulating lipid metabolism and undergo a dynamic …

Fatty acid metabolism of immune cells: a new target of tumour immunotherapy

S Zhang, K Lv, Z Liu, R Zhao, F Li - Cell death discovery, 2024‏ - nature.com
Metabolic competition between tumour cells and immune cells for limited nutrients is an
important feature of the tumour microenvironment (TME) and is closely related to the …

Nitric oxide in macrophage immunometabolism: hiding in plain sight

EM Palmieri, C McGinity, DA Wink, DW McVicar - Metabolites, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Nitric Oxide (NO) is a soluble endogenous gas with various biological functions like
signaling, and working as an effector molecule or metabolic regulator. In response to …

Fatty kidney: emerging role of ectopic lipid in obesity-related renal disease

APJ De Vries, P Ruggenenti, XZ Ruan… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2014‏ - thelancet.com
The global increase in chronic kidney disease (CKD) parallels the obesity epidemic. Obesity
conveys a gradual but independent risk of progression of CKD that seems irrespective of the …

Emerging designs of aggregation-induced emission luminogens for lipid droplets imaging

F Zhang, X Wu, B Liu, T Han, D Yan, D Wang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Lipid droplets (LDs) are organelles that have evolved to store intracellular neutral lipids and
maintain cellular energy homeostasis. Once considered as inert fat particles, they have …

[HTML][HTML] A twist of FATe: Lipid droplets and inflammatory lipid mediators

E Jarc, T Petan - Biochimie, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Lipid droplets are fat storage organelles present in most eukaryotic cells. They consist of a
neutral lipid core containing mostly triglycerides and sterol esters and covered by a …

Not just fat: the structure and function of the lipid droplet

T Fujimoto, RG Parton - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2011‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are independent organelles that are composed of a lipid ester core and
a surface phospholipid monolayer. Recent studies have revealed many new proteins …