Molecular regulation of adipogenesis and potential anti-adipogenic bioactive molecules

D Moseti, A Regassa, WK Kim - International journal of molecular …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Adipogenesis is the process by which precursor stem cells differentiate into lipid laden
adipocytes. Adipogenesis is regulated by a complex and highly orchestrated gene …

Recent progress in genetics, epigenetics and metagenomics unveils the pathophysiology of human obesity

M Pigeyre, FT Yazdi, Y Kaur, D Meyre - Clinical science, 2016 - portlandpress.com
In high-, middle-and low-income countries, the rising prevalence of obesity is the underlying
cause of numerous health complications and increased mortality. Being a complex and …

Transcriptional and epigenetic control of brown and beige adipose cell fate and function

T Inagaki, J Sakai, S Kajimura - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
White adipocytes store excess energy in the form of triglycerides, whereas brown and beige
adipocytes dissipate energy in the form of heat. This thermogenic function relies on the …

[HTML][HTML] PPARγ as a therapeutic target to rescue mitochondrial function in neurological disease

JC Corona, MR Duchen - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
There is increasing evidence for the involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative
stress in the pathogenesis of many of the major neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory …

Zebrafish embryonic lipidomic analysis reveals that the yolk cell is metabolically active in processing lipid

D Fraher, A Sanigorski, NA Mellett, PJ Meikle… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
The role of lipids in providing energy and structural cellular components during vertebrate
development is poorly understood. To elucidate these roles further, we visualized lipid …

Arylfluorosulfates inactivate intracellular lipid binding protein (s) through chemoselective SuFEx reaction with a binding site Tyr residue

W Chen, J Dong, L Plate, DE Mortenson… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Arylfluorosulfates have appeared only rarely in the literature and have not been explored as
probes for covalent conjugation to proteins, possibly because they were assumed to …

Maternal and fetal lipid metabolism under normal and gestational diabetic conditions

E Herrera, G Desoye - Hormone molecular biology and clinical …, 2016 - degruyter.com
Maternal lipids are strong determinants of fetal fat mass. Here we review the overall lipid
metabolism in normal and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) pregnancies. During early …

Epigenetic plasticity drives adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation of marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells

MB Meyer, NA Benkusky, B Sen, J Rubin… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
Terminal differentiation of multipotent stem cells is achieved through a coordinated cascade
of activated transcription factors and epigenetic modifications that drive gene transcription …

Bisphenol S-and bisphenol A-induced adipogenesis of murine preadipocytes occurs through direct peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma activation

S Ahmed, E Atlas - International journal of obesity, 2016 - nature.com
Methods: Murine 3T3-L1 preadipocytes were used to evaluate and compare the adipogenic
potential of BPS to BPA. Cells were treated with 0.01–50 μ M BPS or 0.01–50 μ M BPA and …

The glucocorticoid receptor: cause of or cure for obesity?

K John, JS Marino, ER Sanchez… - American Journal of …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Glucocorticoid hormones (GCs) are important regulators of lipid metabolism, promoting
lipolysis with acute treatment but lipogenesis with chronic exposure. Conventional wisdom …