Effect of okra fruit powder supplementation on metabolic syndrome and gut microbiota diversity in high fat diet-induced obese mice

J Zhang, Y Zhao, D Ren, X Yang - Food Research International, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aimed to explore a novel strategy for dietary okra fruit powder (OFP) consumption
on attenuation of non-alcohol fatty liver damage, lipid metabolic disorder and gut microbiota …

Muscle carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CPT II) deficiency: a conceptual approach

PR Joshi, S Zierz - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) catalyzes the transfer of long-and medium-chain fatty
acids from cytoplasm into mitochondria, where oxidation of fatty acids takes place …

Reduced fatty acid β-oxidation improves glucose catabolism and liver health in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) juveniles fed a high-starch diet

LY Li, Y Wang, SM Limbu, JM Li, F Qiao, LQ Chen… - Aquaculture, 2021 - Elsevier
Fish are poor users of dietary carbohydrates and often display prolonged hyperglycemia
and fat deposition after feeding high digestible carbohydrate diets. Recently, fatty acid β …

Roles of galectin-3 in metabolic disorders and tumor cell metabolism

YS Li, XT Li, LG Yu, L Wang, ZY Shi, XL Guo - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The galactoside-binding protein galectin-3 is commonly overexpressed by cancer cells and
promotes cancer progression and metastasis. Over the past few years, evidence has …

Obesity linking to hepatocellular carcinoma: a global view

L Gan, Z Liu, C Sun - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the commonest primary liver cancer and the second
leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Obesity is rapidly becoming pandemic and …

Mitochondrial lipid homeostasis at the crossroads of liver and heart diseases

SA Dabravolski, EE Bezsonov, MS Baig… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The prevalence of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) is a rapidly increasing problem,
affecting a huge population around the globe. However, CVDs (cardiovascular diseases) …

Macrophage fatty acid oxidation inhibits atherosclerosis progression

M Nomura, J Liu, ZX Yu, T Yamazaki, Y Yan… - Journal of molecular and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Atherosclerosis is a chronic disorder of the vessel wall. One key regulator of disease
progression is lipid handling in macrophages. However, the role of macrophage …

Factors affecting obesity and its treatment

P Singh, SN Rai - Obesity Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Adipose tissue plays an important role in energy homeostasis by secreting different
hormones and peptides which regulate whole body metabolism. Lower or higher level …

[HTML][HTML] Meet-in-metabolite analysis: A novel strategy to identify connections between arsenic exposure and male infertility

Y Wu, R Ding, X Zhang, J Zhang, Q Huang, L Liu… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Despite a trend in the use of systems epidemiology to fill the knowledge gap
between risk-factor exposure and adverse outcomes in the OMICS data, such as the …

Disturbance of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in hepatic lipid metabolism in rats fed with high fat diet

Y Zhang, S Ge, Z Yang, Z Li, X Gong, Q Zhang… - Food and Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), which is widely used as an industrial
plasticizer, may cause liver damage. Concomitantly, bad dietary habits can exacerbate the …