Metabolic flexibility as an adaptation to energy resources and requirements in health and disease

RL Smith, MR Soeters, RCI Wüst… - Endocrine …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The ability to efficiently adapt metabolism by substrate sensing, trafficking, storage, and
utilization, dependent on availability and requirement, is known as metabolic flexibility. In …

Metabolic flexibility in health and disease

BH Goodpaster, LM Sparks - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Metabolic flexibility is the ability to respond or adapt to conditional changes in metabolic
demand. This broad concept has been propagated to explain insulin resistance and …

Lactate: a metabolic driver in the tumour landscape

L Ippolito, A Morandi, E Giannoni, P Chiarugi - Trends in biochemical …, 2019 - cell.com
The presence of lactate in human tumours has been long neglected, confined to the role of a
waste product derived from glycolysis and as a biomarker of malignancy. More recently …

Targeting glucose metabolism enzymes in cancer treatment: current and emerging strategies

Y Zhang, Q Li, Z Huang, B Li, EC Nice, C Huang, L Wei… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Reprogramming of glucose metabolism is a hallmark of cancer and can be
targeted by therapeutic agents. Some metabolism regulators, such as ivosidenib and …

Metabolic strategies of melanoma cells: Mechanisms, interactions with the tumor microenvironment, and therapeutic implications

GM Fischer, YN Vashisht Gopal… - Pigment cell & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Melanomas are metabolically heterogeneous, and they are able to adapt in order to utilize a
variety of fuels that facilitate tumor progression and metastasis. The significance of …

The mitochondrial complex (I) ty of cancer

FA Urra, F Muñoz, A Lovy, C Cárdenas - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Recent evidence highlights that the cancer cell energy requirements vary greatly from
normal cells and that cancer cells exhibit different metabolic phenotypes with variable …

Phenformin as an anticancer agent: challenges and prospects

ME García Rubiño, E Carrillo, G Ruiz Alcalá… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Currently, there is increasing evidence linking diabetes mellitus (especially type 2 diabetes
mellitus) with carcinogenesis through various biological processes, such as fat-induced …

The mechanism of action of biguanides: New answers to a complex question

L Di Magno, F Di Pastena, R Bordone, S Coni… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In the last two decades, the antidiabetic drugs, biguanides, have received
considerable interest owing to their presumed antitumor properties. A critical issue that has …

Allicin and digestive system cancers: from chemical structure to its therapeutic opportunities

M Sarvizadeh, O Hasanpour… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Digestive system cancer tumors are one of the major causes of cancer-related fatalities; the
vast majority of them are colorectal or gastric malignancies. Epidemiological evidence …

Metabolic reprogramming in the tumour microenvironment: a hallmark shared by cancer cells and T lymphocytes

KE Allison, BL Coomber, BW Bridle - Immunology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Altered metabolism is a hallmark of cancers, including shifting oxidative phosphorylation to
glycolysis and up‐regulating glutaminolysis to divert carbon sources into biosynthetic …