Insulin–PI3K signalling: an evolutionarily insulated metabolic driver of cancer

BD Hopkins, MD Goncalves, LC Cantley - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by incremental changes that accumulate, eventually leading to oncogenic
transformation. Although genetic alterations dominate the way cancer biologists think about …

Loss of metabolic flexibility in the failing heart

QG Karwi, GM Uddin, KL Ho… - Frontiers in cardiovascular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
To maintain its high energy demand the heart is equipped with a highly complex and
efficient enzymatic machinery that orchestrates ATP production using multiple energy …

Brain insulin resistance at the crossroads of metabolic and cognitive disorders in humans

S Kullmann, M Heni, M Hallschmid… - Physiological …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Ever since the brain was identified as an insulin-sensitive organ, evidence has rapidly
accumulated that insulin action in the brain produces multiple behavioral and metabolic …

[HTML][HTML] Insulin signaling, resistance, and the metabolic syndrome: insights from mouse models to disease mechanisms

S Guo - The Journal of endocrinology, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Insulin resistance is a major underlying mechanism for the “metabolic syndrome”, which is
also known as insulin resistance syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is increasing at an …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance: underlying causes and modification by exercise training

CK Roberts, AL Hevener, RJ Barnard - Comprehensive physiology, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a collection of cardiometabolic risk factors that includes obesity,
insulin resistance, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Although there has been significant …

Obesity and cancer mechanisms: cancer metabolism

BD Hopkins, MD Goncalves, LC Cantley - Journal of clinical oncology, 2016 - ascopubs.org
Obesity is a risk factor for cancer development and is associated with poor prognosis in
multiple tumor types. The positive energy balance linked with obesity induces a variety of …

Insulin resistance and cancer risk: an overview of the pathogenetic mechanisms

B Arcidiacono, S Iiritano, A Nocera… - Journal of Diabetes …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Insulin resistance is common in individuals with obesity or type 2 diabetes (T2D), in which
circulating insulin levels are frequently increased. Recent epidemiological and clinical …

Plant responses to drought, salinity and extreme temperatures: towards genetic engineering for stress tolerance

W Wang, B Vinocur, A Altman - Planta, 2003 - Springer
Abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, chemical toxicity and
oxidative stress are serious threats to agriculture and the natural status of the environment …

IRS-1-mediated inhibition of insulin receptor tyrosine kinase activity in TNF-α-and obesity-induced insulin resistance

GS Hotamisligil, P Peraldi, A Budavari, R Ellis… - Science, 1996 - science.org
Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is an important mediator of insulin resistance in obesity and
diabetes through its ability to decrease the tyrosine kinase activity of the insulin receptor (IR) …

Protection from obesity-induced insulin resistance in mice lacking TNF-α function

KT Uysal, SM Wiesbrock, MW Marino, GS Hotamisligil - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Obesity is highly associated with insulin resistance and is the biggest risk factor for non-
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus,,. The molecular basis of this common syndrome …