Inflammation, vitamin B6 and related pathways

PM Ueland, A McCann, Ø Midttun, A Ulvik - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
The active form of vitamin B6, pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP), serves as a co-factor in more
than 150 enzymatic reactions. Plasma PLP has consistently been shown to be low in …

[HTML][HTML] Glutathione: A Samsonian life-sustaining small molecule that protects against oxidative stress, ageing and damaging inflammation

CA Labarrere, GS Kassab - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Many local and systemic diseases especially diseases that are leading causes of death
globally like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atherosclerosis with ischemic heart …

Glycine-based treatment ameliorates NAFLD by modulating fatty acid oxidation, glutathione synthesis, and the gut microbiome

O Rom, Y Liu, Z Liu, Y Zhao, J Wu, A Ghrayeb… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has
reached epidemic proportions with no pharmacological therapy approved. Lower circulating …

A metabolomic profile of biological aging in 250,341 individuals from the UK Biobank

S Zhang, Z Wang, Y Wang, Y Zhu, Q Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The metabolomic profile of aging is complex. Here, we analyse 325 nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) biomarkers from 250,341 UK Biobank participants, identifying 54 …

Exome sequencing of Finnish isolates enhances rare-variant association power

AE Locke, KM Steinberg, CWK Chiang, SK Service… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Exome-sequencing studies have generally been underpowered to identify deleterious
alleles with a large effect on complex traits as such alleles are mostly rare. Because the …

Insulin resistance and glycine metabolism in humans

M Adeva-Andany, G Souto-Adeva… - Amino Acids, 2018 - Springer
Plasma glycine level is low in patients with obesity or diabetes and the improvement of
insulin resistance increases plasma glycine concentration. In prospective studies …

[HTML][HTML] Glycine and aging: Evidence and mechanisms

AA Johnson, TL Cuellar - Ageing research reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The restriction of calories, branched-chain amino acids, and methionine have all been
shown to extend lifespan in model organisms. Recently, glycine was found to boost …

Assessing the causal association of glycine with risk of cardio-metabolic diseases

LBL Wittemans, LA Lotta, C Oliver-Williams… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Circulating levels of glycine have previously been associated with lower incidence of
coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) but it remains uncertain if glycine …

Bifidobacterium lactis Probio-M8 adjuvant treatment confers added benefits to patients with coronary artery disease via target modulation of the gut-heart/-brain axes

B Sun, T Ma, Y Li, N Yang, B Li, X Zhou, S Guo… - Msystems, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Accumulating evidence suggests that gut dysbiosis may play a role in cardiovascular
problems like coronary artery disease (CAD). Thus, target steering the gut microbiota …

Muscle-liver trafficking of BCAA-derived nitrogen underlies obesity-related glycine depletion

PJ White, AL Lapworth, RW McGarrah, LC Kwee… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Glycine levels are inversely associated with branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and
cardiometabolic disease phenotypes, but biochemical mechanisms that explain these …