Brown and beige adipose tissue: a novel therapeutic strategy for obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus

L Cheng, J Wang, H Dai, Y Duan, Y An, L Shi, Y Lv… - Adipocyte, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Mammalian adipose tissue can be divided into two major types, namely, white adipose
tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT). According to classical view, the main function …

[HTML][HTML] Glial cells shape pathology and repair after spinal cord injury

AD Gaudet, LK Fonken - Neurotherapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Glial cell types were classified less than 100 years ago by del Rio-Hortega. For instance, he
correctly surmised that microglia in pathologic central nervous system (CNS) were …

MicroRNAs: roles in regulating neuroinflammation

AD Gaudet, LK Fonken, LR Watkins… - The …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that broadly affect cellular and
physiological function in all multicellular organisms. Here, the role of miRNAs in …

Senolytic effects of quercetin in an in vitro model of pre-adipocytes and adipocytes induced senescence

E Zoico, N Nori, E Darra, M Tebon, V Rizzatti… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The dysfunction of adipose tissue with aging and the accumulation of senescent cells has
been implicated in the pathophysiology of chronic diseases. Recently interventions capable …

[HTML][HTML] Adipocyte-derived extracellular vesicles regulate survival and function of pancreatic β cells

I Gesmundo, B Pardini, E Gargantini, G Gamba… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are implicated in the crosstalk between adipocytes and other
metabolic organs, and an altered biological cargo has been observed in EVs from human …

Adipose tissue fibrosis: mechanisms, models, and importance

MK DeBari, RD Abbott - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Increases in adipocyte volume and tissue mass due to obesity can result in inflammation,
further dysregulation in adipose tissue function, and eventually adipose tissue fibrosis. Like …

Regulatory microRNAs in brown, brite and white adipose tissue

S Gharanei, K Shabir, JE Brown, MO Weickert… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) constitute a class of short noncoding RNAs which regulate gene
expression by targeting messenger RNA, inducing translational repression and messenger …

Mechanisms of impaired brown adipose tissue recruitment in obesity

M Alcalá, M Calderon-Dominguez, D Serra… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) dissipates energy to produce heat. Thus, it has the potential to
regulate body temperature by thermogenesis. For the last decade, BAT has been in the …

Adipocyte, immune cells, and miRNA crosstalk: a novel regulator of metabolic dysfunction and obesity

S Kiran, V Kumar, S Kumar, RL Price, UP Singh - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Obesity is characterized as a complex and multifactorial excess accretion of adipose tissue
(AT) accompanied with alterations in the immune response that affects virtually all age and …

Vitamin D limits inflammation-linked microRNA expression in adipocytes in vitro and in vivo: A new mechanism for the regulation of inflammation by vitamin D

E Karkeni, L Bonnet, J Marcotorchino, F Tourniaire… - Epigenetics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Inflammation of adipose tissue is believed to be a contributing factor to many chronic
diseases associated with obesity. Vitamin D (VD) is now known to limit this metabolic …