Uridine metabolism and its role in glucose, lipid, and amino acid homeostasis

Y Zhang, S Guo, C Xie, J Fang - BioMed research international, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pyrimidine nucleoside uridine plays a critical role in maintaining cellular function and energy
metabolism. In addition to its role in nucleoside synthesis, uridine and its derivatives …

Impact of fenofibrate on NAFLD/NASH: A genetic perspective

A Mahmoudi, T Jamialahmadi, TP Johnston… - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•NAFLD is highly prevalent and affects at least one-third of the global
population.•Currently, there is no drug to cure NAFLD.•Fenofibrate is a PPARα agonist with …

Uridine attenuates obesity, ameliorates hepatic lipid accumulation and modifies the gut microbiota composition in mice fed with a high-fat diet

Y Liu, C Xie, Z Zhai, Z Deng, HR De Jonge, X Wu… - Food & Function, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Uridine (UR) is a pyrimidine nucleoside that plays an important role in regulating glucose
and lipid metabolism. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of UR on obesity, fat …

Effect of chronic treatment with uridine on cardiac mitochondrial dysfunction in the C57BL/6 mouse model of high-fat diet–streptozotocin-induced diabetes

NV Belosludtseva, VS Starinets, IB Mikheeva… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Long-term hyperglycemia in diabetes mellitus is associated with complex damage to
cardiomyocytes and the development of mitochondrial dysfunction in the myocardium …

Liver protective effect of fenofibrate in NASH/NAFLD animal models

A Mahmoudi, SA Moallem, TP Johnston… - PPAR …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is initiated by excessive fat buildup in the liver,
affecting around 35% of the world population. Various circumstances contribute to the …

Chronic uridine administration induces fatty liver and pre-diabetic conditions in mice

Y Urasaki, G Pizzorno, TT Le - Plos one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Uridine is a pyrimidine nucleoside that exerts restorative functions in tissues under stress.
Short-term co-administration of uridine with multiple unrelated drugs prevents drug-induced …

New microRNA biomarkers for drug-induced steatosis and their potential to predict the contribution of drugs to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

M López-Riera, I Conde, L Tolosa… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Background and Aims: Drug-induced steatosis is a major reason for drug failure in clinical
trials and post-marketing withdrawal; and therefore, predictive biomarkers are essential …

[HTML][HTML] Uridine alleviates high-carbohydrate diet-induced metabolic syndromes by activating sirt1/AMPK signaling pathway and promoting glycogen synthesis in Nile …

NN Zhou, T Wang, YX Lin, R Xu, HX Wu, FF Ding… - Animal Nutrition, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbohydrates have a protein sparing effect, but long-term feeding of a high-carbohydrate
diet (HCD) leads to metabolic disorders due to the limited utilization efficiency of …

Metabolites associated with circulating interleukin-6 in older adults

MS Lustgarten, RA Fielding - Journals of Gerontology Series A …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Circulating levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels are
elevated in older adults, but mechanisms are unclear. In the current study, we used an …

Maternal supplementation with uridine influences fatty acid and amino acid constituents of offspring in a sow–piglet model

L Gao, Y Liu, X Zhou, Y Zhang, X Wu… - British Journal of Nutrition, 2021 - cambridge.org
To investigate the cumulative effects of maternal supplementation with nucleotides in the
form of uridine (UR) on fatty acid and amino acid constituents of neonatal piglets, fifty-two …