Hyperuricemia and its related diseases: mechanisms and advances in therapy

L Du, Y Zong, H Li, Q Wang, L Xie, B Yang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Hyperuricemia, characterized by elevated levels of serum uric acid (SUA), is linked to a
spectrum of commodities such as gout, cardiovascular diseases, renal disorders, metabolic …

Molecular biological and clinical understanding of the pathophysiology and treatments of hyperuricemia and its association with metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular …

H Yanai, H Adachi, M Hakoshima… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Uric acid (UA) is synthesized mainly in the liver, intestines, and vascular endothelium as the
end product of an exogenous purine from food and endogenously from damaged, dying …

Glucose transporters in adipose tissue, liver, and skeletal muscle in metabolic health and disease

A Chadt, H Al-Hasani - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology, 2020 - Springer
A family of facilitative glucose transporters (GLUTs) is involved in regulating tissue-specific
glucose uptake and metabolism in the liver, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue to ensure …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk

N Shrine, AG Izquierdo, J Chen, R Packer, RJ Hall… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and
predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of …

Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

G Davies, M Lam, SE Harris, JW Trampush… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
General cognitive function is a prominent and relatively stable human trait that is associated
with many important life outcomes. We combine cognitive and genetic data from the …

[HTML][HTML] Update on the epidemiology, genetics, and therapeutic options of hyperuricemia

L Li, Y Zhang, C Zeng - American journal of translational research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hyperuricemia may occur when there is an excess of uric acid in the blood. Hyperuricemia
may result from increased production or decreased excretion of uric acid. Elevated uric acid …

New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

N Shrine, AL Guyatt, AM Erzurumluoglu, VE Jackson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Reduced lung function predicts mortality and is key to the diagnosis of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). In a genome-wide association study in 400,102 individuals of …

Physiology of hyperuricemia and urate-lowering treatments

CL Benn, P Dua, R Gurrell, P Loudon, A Pike… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis and is a multifactorial disease
typically characterized by hyperuricemia and monosodium urate crystal deposition …

Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels

A Tin, J Marten, VL Halperin Kuhns, Y Li, M Wuttke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Elevated serum urate levels cause gout and correlate with cardiometabolic diseases via
poorly understood mechanisms. We performed a trans-ancestry genome-wide association …

The SLC2 (GLUT) family of membrane transporters

M Mueckler, B Thorens - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
GLUT proteins are encoded by the SLC2 genes and are members of the major facilitator
superfamily of membrane transporters. Fourteen GLUT proteins are expressed in the human …