Role of bile acids and their receptors in gastrointestinal and hepatic pathophysiology

CD Fuchs, M Trauner - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2022 - nature.com
Bile acids (BAs) can regulate their own metabolism and transport as well as other key
aspects of metabolic homeostasis via dedicated (nuclear and G protein-coupled) receptors …

[HTML][HTML] A historical review of brain drug delivery

WM Pardridge - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of brain drug delivery is reviewed beginning with the first demonstration, in 1914,
that a drug for syphilis, salvarsan, did not enter the brain, due to the presence of a blood …

Principles and functions of metabolic compartmentalization

L Bar-Peled, N Kory - Nature metabolism, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolism has historically been studied at the levels of whole cells, whole tissues and
whole organisms. As a result, our understanding of how compartmentalization—the spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting SLC1A5 and SLC3A2/SLC7A5 as a potential strategy to strengthen anti-tumor immunity in the tumor microenvironment

M Nachef, AK Ali, SM Almutairi, SH Lee - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer cells are metabolically vigorous and are superior in the uptake of nutrients and in the
release of the tumor microenvironment (TME)-specific metabolites. They create an acidic …

[HTML][HTML] The combination of genomic offset and niche modelling provides insights into climate change-driven vulnerability

Y Chen, Z Jiang, P Fan, PGP Ericson, G Song… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global warming is increasingly exacerbating biodiversity loss. Populations locally adapted
to spatially heterogeneous environments may respond differentially to climate change, but …

Tryptophan and its metabolites in normal physiology and cancer etiology

L Perez‐Castro, R Garcia, N Venkateswaran… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Within the growing field of amino acid metabolism, tryptophan (Trp) catabolism is an area of
increasing interest. Trp is essential for protein synthesis, and its metabolism gives rise to …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of cell-based assay platforms for the solute carrier family of transporters

V Dvorak, T Wiedmer, A Ingles-Prieto… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The solute carrier (SLC) superfamily represents the biggest family of transporters with
important roles in health and disease. Despite being attractive and druggable targets, the …

[HTML][HTML] SLC38A4 functions as a tumour suppressor in hepatocellular carcinoma through modulating Wnt/β-catenin/MYC/HMGCS2 axis

J Li, M Li, T Wang, X Liu, X Zhu, Y Dai, K Zhai… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Background Many molecular alterations are shared by embryonic liver development and
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Identifying the common molecular events would provide a …

[HTML][HTML] Bile acids transporters of enterohepatic circulation for targeted drug delivery

R Durník, L Šindlerová, P Babica, O Jurček - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bile acids (BAs) are important steroidal molecules with a rapidly growing span of
applications across a variety of fields such as supramolecular chemistry, pharmacy, and …

Ageing induces tissue‐specific transcriptomic changes in Caenorhabditis elegans

X Wang, Q Jiang, Y Song, Z He, H Zhang… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Ageing is a complex process with common and distinct features across tissues. Unveiling
the underlying processes driving ageing in individual tissues is indispensable to decipher …