Obesity and dyslipidemia

J Vekic, A Zeljkovic, A Stefanovic, Z Jelic-Ivanovic… - Metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
Obesity, a pandemic of the modern world, is intimately associated with dyslipidemia, which
is mainly driven by the effects of insulin resistance and pro-inflammatory adipokines …

Ceramides in metabolism: key lipotoxic players

B Chaurasia, SA Summers - Annual review of physiology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The global prevalence of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus,
steatohepatitis, myocardial infarction, and stroke has increased dramatically over the past …

Beyond adiponectin and leptin: adipose tissue-derived mediators of inter-organ communication

JB Funcke, PE Scherer - Journal of lipid research, 2019 - ASBMB
The breakthrough discoveries of leptin and adiponectin more than two decades ago led to a
widespread recognition of adipose tissue as an endocrine organ. Many more adipose tissue …

Ceramides–lipotoxic inducers of metabolic disorders

B Chaurasia, SA Summers - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2015 - cell.com
In obesity and dyslipidemia, the oversupply of fat to tissues not suited for lipid storage
induces cellular dysfunction that underlies diabetes and cardiovascular disease (ie …

Sphingolipid metabolites in inflammatory disease

M Maceyka, S Spiegel - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Sphingolipids are ubiquitous building blocks of eukaryotic cell membranes. Progress in our
understanding of sphingolipid metabolism, state-of-the-art sphingolipidomic approaches …

Sphingolipids and phospholipids in insulin resistance and related metabolic disorders

PJ Meikle, SA Summers - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2017 - nature.com
Obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease form a
metabolic disease continuum that has seen a dramatic increase in prevalence in developed …

Obesity-related changes in high-density lipoprotein metabolism and function

JT Stadler, G Marsche - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
In obese individuals, atherogenic dyslipidemia is a very common and important factor in the
increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Adiposity-associated dyslipidemia is characterized …

Metabolic messengers: ceramides

SA Summers, B Chaurasia, WL Holland - Nature metabolism, 2019 - nature.com
Ceramides are products of metabolism that accumulate in individuals with obesity or
dyslipidaemia and alter cellular processes in response to fuel surplus. Their actions, when …

Ceramides contained in LDL are elevated in type 2 diabetes and promote inflammation and skeletal muscle insulin resistance

J Boon, AJ Hoy, R Stark, RD Brown, RC Meex… - Diabetes, 2013 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Dysregulated lipid metabolism and inflammation are linked to the development of insulin
resistance in obesity, and the intracellular accumulation of the sphingolipid ceramide has …

The mitophagy receptor BNIP3 is critical for the regulation of metabolic homeostasis and mitochondrial function in the nucleus pulposus cells of the intervertebral disc

V Madhu, M Hernandez-Meadows, PK Boneski, Y Qiu… - Autophagy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The contribution of mitochondria to the metabolic function of hypoxic NP cells has been
overlooked. We have shown that NP cells contain networked mitochondria and that …