Insulin and insulin resistance in Alzheimer's disease

A Sędzikowska, L Szablewski - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Insulin plays a range of roles as an anabolic hormone in peripheral tissues. It regulates
glucose metabolism, stimulates glucose transport into cells and suppresses hepatic glucose …

Nanoparticle–liver interactions: Cellular uptake and hepatobiliary elimination

YN Zhang, W Poon, AJ Tavares, ID McGilvray… - Journal of controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
99% of administered nanoparticles will accumulate and sequester in the liver after
administration into the body. This results in reduced delivery to the targeted diseased tissue …

SYK coordinates neuroprotective microglial responses in neurodegenerative disease

H Ennerfelt, EL Frost, DA Shapiro, C Holliday… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent studies have begun to reveal critical roles for the brain's professional phagocytes,
microglia, and their receptors in the control of neurotoxic amyloid beta (Aβ) and myelin …

Glycosylation and stabilization of programmed death ligand-1 suppresses T-cell activity

CW Li, SO Lim, W Xia, HH Lee, LC Chan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Extracellular interaction between programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) and programmed cell
death protein-1 (PD-1) leads to tumour-associated immune escape. Here we show that the …

Smooth muscle cell-driven vascular diseases and molecular mechanisms of VSMC plasticity

A Frismantiene, M Philippova, P Erne, TJ Resink - Cellular signalling, 2018 - Elsevier
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are the major cell type in blood vessels. Unlike
many other mature cell types in the adult body, VSMC do not terminally differentiate but …

Altered proliferation and networks in neural cells derived from idiopathic autistic individuals

MC Marchetto, H Belinson, Y Tian, BC Freitas… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are common, complex and heterogeneous
neurodevelopmental disorders. Cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for ASD …

Glycogen synthesis and beyond, a comprehensive review of GSK3 as a key regulator of metabolic pathways and a therapeutic target for treating metabolic diseases

L Wang, J Li, L Di - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Glycogen synthase kinase‐3 (GSK3) is a highly evolutionarily conserved
serine/threonine protein kinase first identified as an enzyme that regulates glycogen …

Inflammation and oxidative stress: the molecular connectivity between insulin resistance, obesity, and Alzheimer's disease

G Verdile, KN Keane, VF Cruzat, S Medic… - Mediators of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM), Alzheimer's disease (AD), and insulin resistance are age‐related
conditions and increased prevalence is of public concern. Recent research has provided …

Protein kinase C controls lysosome biogenesis independently of mTORC1

Y Li, M Xu, X Ding, C Yan, Z Song, L Chen… - Nature cell …, 2016 - nature.com
Lysosomes respond to environmental cues by controlling their own biogenesis, but the
underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here we describe a protein kinase C (PKC) …

Ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage, response, and repair

WL Santivasi, F Xia - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Ionizing radiation (IR) is an effective and commonly employed treatment in the
management of more than half of human malignancies. Because IR's ability to control …