Enhancers: five essential questions

LA Pennacchio, W Bickmore, A Dean… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Although enhancers are crucial and widespread gene-regulatory elements, we are far from
a complete understanding of how they function or their importance in areas such as disease …

Animal models for diabetes: understanding the pathogenesis and finding new treatments

A King, J Bowe - Biochemical pharmacology, 2016 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus is a lifelong, metabolic disease that is characterised by an inability to
maintain normal glucose homeostasis. There are several different forms of diabetes …

Wnt/beta-catenin signaling confers ferroptosis resistance by targeting GPX4 in gastric cancer

Y Wang, L Zheng, W Shang, Z Yang, T Li… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of chemotherapy resistance is the most vital obstacle to clinical efficacy in
gastric cancer (GC). The dysregulation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway is critically …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics of type 2 diabetes

O Ali - World journal of diabetes, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the result of interaction between environmental factors and
a strong hereditary component. We review the heritability of T2D as well as the history of …

MicroRNA-26a regulates insulin sensitivity and metabolism of glucose and lipids

X Fu, B Dong, Y Tian, P Lefebvre… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is characterized by insulin resistance and increased hepatic glucose
production, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying these abnormalities are poorly …

Sclerostin influences body composition by regulating catabolic and anabolic metabolism in adipocytes

SP Kim, JL Frey, Z Li, P Kushwaha… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Sclerostin has traditionally been thought of as a local inhibitor of bone acquisition that
antagonizes the profound osteoanabolic capacity of activated Wnt/β-catenin signaling, but …

Development of Plasmodium falciparum liver-stages in hepatocytes derived from human fetal liver organoid cultures

ASP Yang, D Dutta, K Kretzschmar, D Hendriks… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) parasite development in liver represents the initial step of the
life-cycle in the human host after a Pf-infected mosquito bite. While an attractive stage for life …

[HTML][HTML] Glucagon couples hepatic amino acid catabolism to mTOR-dependent regulation of α-cell mass

MJ Solloway, A Madjidi, C Gu, J Eastham-Anderson… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Understanding the regulation of islet cell mass has important implications for the discovery
of regenerative therapies for diabetes. The liver plays a central role in metabolism and the …

In vivo transcriptional governance of hair follicle stem cells by canonical Wnt regulators

WH Lien, L Polak, M Lin, K Lay, D Zheng, E Fuchs - Nature cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
Hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) regenerate hair in response to Wnt signalling. Here, we
unfold genome-wide transcriptional and chromatin landscapes of β-catenin–TCF3/4–TLE …

Wnt some lose some: transcriptional governance of stem cells by Wnt/β-catenin signaling

WH Lien, E Fuchs - Genes & development, 2014 - genesdev.cshlp.org
In mammals, Wnt/β-catenin signaling features prominently in stem cells and cancers, but
how and for what purposes have been matters of much debate. In this review, we summarize …