Drug development advances in human genetics‐based targets

X Zhang, W Yu, Y Li, A Wang, H Cao, Y Fu - MedComm, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Drug development is a long and costly process, with a high degree of uncertainty from the
identification of a drug target to its market launch. Targeted drugs supported by human …

Emerging Roles and Therapeutic Applications of Arachidonic Acid Pathways in Cardiometabolic Diseases

Y Hu, W Li, X Cheng, H Yang, ZG She, J Cai… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiometabolic disease has become a major health burden worldwide, with sharply
increasing prevalence but highly limited therapeutic interventions. Emerging evidence has …

Central regulation of feeding and body weight by ciliary GPR75

Y Jiang, Y Xun, Z Zhang - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2024 - jci.org
Variants of the G protein–coupled receptor 75 (GPR75) are associated with a lower BMI in
large-scale human exome-sequencing studies. However, how GPR75 regulates body …

Reaffirmation of mechanistic proteomic signatures accompanying SGLT2 inhibition in patients with heart failure: a validation cohort of the EMPEROR program

M Packer, JP Ferreira, J Butler, G Filippatos… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - jacc.org
Background Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors exert a distinctive pattern of
direct biological effects on the heart and kidney under experimental conditions, but the …

Ciliary localization of GPR75 promotes fat accumulation in mice

M Chávez, A Asthana, PK Jackson - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2024 - jci.org
Obesity is a growing public health concern that affects the longevity and lifestyle of all
human populations including children and older individuals. Diverse factors drive obesity …

Loss of GPR75 protects against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and body fat accumulation

A Leeson-Payne, J Iyinikkel, C Malcolm, BYH Lam… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Approximately 1 in 4 people worldwide have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD);
however, there are currently no medications to treat this condition. This study investigated …

Gpr75 knockout mice display age‐dependent cone photoreceptor cell loss

S Vasudevan, IS Samuels… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
GPR75 is an orphan G protein‐coupled receptor for which there is currently limited
information and its function in physiology and disease is only recently beginning to emerge …

Whole-genome resequencing and RNA-seq analysis implicates GPR75 as a potential genetic basis related to retarded growth in South China carp (Cyprinus carpio …

Z Zhong, J Fan, Y Tian, M Lin, H Zhu, D Ma - Genomics, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The south China carp (Cyprinus carpio rubrofuscus) is an indigenous and important
fish species, widely cultured in south China. However, part of individuals experienced …

The expanding landscape of genetic causes of obesity

E Semenova, A Guo, H Liang, CJ Hernandez… - Pediatric …, 2024 - nature.com
Obesity and weight regulation disorders are determined by the combined effects of genetics
and environment. Polygenic obesity results from the combination of common variants in …

An orphan to the rescue of obesity and steatotic liver?

S Jain, AK Shukla - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
In a recent article, Leeson-Payne et al. demonstrate that GPR75 knock-out in mice results in
lower body fat and reduced hepatic lipid accumulation, with an increase in physical activity …