Dietary carbohydrates and fats in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

H Yki-Järvinen, PK Luukkonen, L Hodson… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has dramatically
increased in parallel with the epidemic of obesity. Controversy has emerged around dietary …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of insulin action and insulin resistance

MC Petersen, GI Shulman - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The 1921 discovery of insulin was a Big Bang from which a vast and expanding universe of
research into insulin action and resistance has issued. In the intervening century, some …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-dimensional roles of ketone bodies in fuel metabolism, signaling, and therapeutics

P Puchalska, PA Crawford - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Ketone body metabolism is a central node in physiological homeostasis. In this review, we
discuss how ketones serve discrete fine-tuning metabolic roles that optimize organ and …

Hypertension, diabetes, atherosclerosis and NASH: cause or consequence?

A Lonardo, F Nascimbeni, A Mantovani, G Targher - Journal of hepatology, 2018 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become one of the most common forms of
chronic liver disease worldwide and its prevalence is expected to continue rising. NAFLD …

Hepatokines: linking nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance

RCR Meex, MJ Watt - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2017 - nature.com
Hepatic steatosis is an underlying feature of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which
is the most common form of liver disease and is present in up to∼ 70% of individuals who …

The role of hepatic lipids in hepatic insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

RJ Perry, VT Samuel, KF Petersen, GI Shulman - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its downstream sequelae, hepatic insulin resistance
and type 2 diabetes, are rapidly growing epidemics, which lead to increased morbidity and …

[HTML][HTML] Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a precursor of the metabolic syndrome

A Lonardo, S Ballestri, G Marchesini, P Angulo… - Digestive and Liver …, 2015 - Elsevier
The conventional paradigm of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease representing the “hepatic
manifestation of the metabolic syndrome” is outdated. We identified and summarized …

De novo lipogenesis in the liver in health and disease: more than just a shunting yard for glucose

FWB Sanders, JL Griffin - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL) is the biochemical process of synthesising fatty acids
from acetyl‐CoA subunits that are produced from a number of different pathways within the …

New insights into the pathophysiology of dyslipidemia in type 2 diabetes

MR Taskinen, J Borén - Atherosclerosis, 2015 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality for
patients with type 2 diabetes, despite recent significant advances in management strategies …

Balancing the fat: lipid droplets and human disease

N Krahmer, RV Farese Jr, TC Walther - EMBO molecular medicine, 2013 - embopress.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are dynamic, cytosolic lipid‐storage organelles found in nearly all cell
types. Too many or too few LDs during excess or deficient fat storage lead to many different …