A researcher's guide to preclinical mouse NASH models

S Gallage, JEB Avila, P Ramadori, E Focaccia… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its inflammatory form, non-alcoholic
steatohepatitis (NASH), have quickly risen to become the most prevalent chronic liver …

Mechanisms of diabetic cardiomyopathy and potential therapeutic strategies: preclinical and clinical evidence

Y Tan, Z Zhang, C Zheng, KA Wintergerst… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The pathogenesis and clinical features of diabetic cardiomyopathy have been well-studied
in the past decade, but effective approaches to prevent and treat this disease are limited …

Role of insulin resistance in MAFLD

Y Sakurai, N Kubota, T Yamauchi… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many studies have reported that metabolic dysfunction is closely involved in the complex
mechanism underlying the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which …

Biochemical and cellular properties of insulin receptor signalling

RA Haeusler, TE McGraw, D Accili - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The mechanism of insulin action is a central theme in biology and medicine. In addition to
the rather rare condition of insulin deficiency caused by autoimmune destruction of …

PTEN: tumor suppressor and metabolic regulator

CY Chen, J Chen, L He, BL Stiles - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog deleted on Chromosome 10 (PTEN) is a dual
phosphatase with both protein and lipid phosphatase activities. PTEN was first discovered …

miRNAs as cornerstones in adipogenesis and obesity

SY Elkhawaga, A Ismail, EGE Elsakka, AS Doghish… - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades, obesity has extensively emerged to the level of pandemics. It's
significantly associated with serious co-morbidities that could decrease life quality and even …

Found in translation—Fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH)

S Wang, SL Friedman - Science translational medicine, 2023 - science.org
Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a severe form of liver disease
that poses a global health threat because of its potential to progress to advanced fibrosis …

The upstream pathway of mTOR-mediated autophagy in liver diseases

H Wang, Y Liu, D Wang, Y Xu, R Dong, Y Yang, Q Lv… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autophagy, originally found in liver experiments, is a cellular process that degrades
damaged organelle or protein aggregation. This process frees cells from various stress …

Transcriptional regulation of hepatic lipogenesis

Y Wang, J Viscarra, SJ Kim, HS Sul - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Fatty acid and fat synthesis in the liver is a highly regulated metabolic pathway that is
important for very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) production and thus energy distribution to …

Insulin receptor signaling in normal and insulin-resistant states

J Boucher, A Kleinridders… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In the wake of the worldwide increase in type-2 diabetes, a major focus of research is
understanding the signaling pathways impacting this disease. Insulin signaling regulates …