Metabolically healthy obesity: criteria, epidemiology, controversies, and consequences

A Tsatsoulis, SA Paschou - Current obesity reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To present a comprehensive overview regarding criteria,
epidemiology, and controversies that have arisen in the literature about the existence and …

Environment and gene association with obesity and their impact on neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases

MT Flores-Dorantes, YE Díaz-López… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Obesity is a multifactorial disease in which environmental conditions and several genes play
an important role in the development of this disease. Obesity is associated with …

Lean NAFLD: a distinct entity shaped by differential metabolic adaptation

F Chen, S Esmaili, GB Rogers, E Bugianesi, S Petta… - Hepatology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Conclusions This study demonstrates that E. multilocularis can induce T‐cell exhaustion
through inhibitory receptor TIGIT, and that blocking this checkpoint may reverse the …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulates adipose tissue lipogenesis and adipocyte-specific loss is rigorously defended by neighboring stromal-vascular cells

DP Bagchi, A Nishii, Z Li, JB DelProposto, CA Corsa… - Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling is a well-studied endogenous
regulator of mesenchymal cell fate determination, promoting osteoblastogenesis and …

Aifm2, a NADH oxidase, supports robust glycolysis and is required for cold-and diet-induced thermogenesis

HP Nguyen, D Yi, F Lin, JA Viscarra, C Tabuchi, K Ngo… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is highly metabolically active tissue that dissipates energy via
UCP1 as heat, and BAT mass is correlated negatively with obesity. The presence of …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic and environmental factors contributing to visceral adiposity in Asian populations

R Williams, M Periasamy - Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2020 - synapse.koreamed.org
Obesity-associated metabolic illnesses are increasing at an alarming rate in Asian countries.
A common feature observed in the Asian population is a higher incidence of abdominal …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in the response to oxidative and proteolytic stress

J Tower, LCD Pomatto, KJA Davies - Redox biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Sex differences in diseases involving oxidative and proteolytic stress are common, including
greater ischemic heart disease, Parkinson disease and stroke in men, and greater …

CTNNB1/β-catenin dysfunction contributes to adiposity by regulating the cross-talk of mature adipocytes and preadipocytes

M Chen, P Lu, Q Ma, Y Cao, N Chen, W Li, S Zhao… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Overnutrition results in adiposity and chronic inflammation with expansion of white adipose
tissue (WAT). However, genetic factors controlling fat mass and adiposity remain largely …

Genomic scan for selection signature reveals fat deposition in Chinese indigenous sheep with extreme tail types

F Zhao, T Deng, L Shi, W Wang, Q Zhang, L Du… - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary According to the tail types, sheep can be briefly classified into three groups
(fat-tailed, fat-rumped, and thin-tailed sheep). In this study, we used these three typical …

Discovery of small-molecule enzyme activators by activity-based protein profiling

BP Kok, S Ghimire, W Kim, S Chatterjee… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) has been used extensively to discover and optimize
selective inhibitors of enzymes. Here, we show that ABPP can also be implemented to …