Metabolic flexibility as an adaptation to energy resources and requirements in health and disease

RL Smith, MR Soeters, RCI Wüst… - Endocrine …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The ability to efficiently adapt metabolism by substrate sensing, trafficking, storage, and
utilization, dependent on availability and requirement, is known as metabolic flexibility. In …

Adipokines, myokines, and hepatokines: crosstalk and metabolic repercussions

AR de Oliveira dos Santos… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Adipose, skeletal, and hepatic muscle tissues are the main endocrine organs that produce
adipokines, myokines, and hepatokines. These biomarkers can be harmful or beneficial to …

Lean NAFLD: a distinct entity shaped by differential metabolic adaptation

F Chen, S Esmaili, GB Rogers, E Bugianesi… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects a quarter of the adult
population. A significant subset of patients are lean, but their underlying pathophysiology is …

Adipose tissue-derived signatures for obesity and type 2 diabetes: adipokines, batokines and microRNAs

MW Lee, M Lee, KJ Oh - Journal of clinical medicine, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity is one of the main risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). It is closely related
to metabolic disturbances in the adipose tissue that primarily functions as a fat reservoir. For …

NAFLD, and cardiovascular and cardiac diseases: Factors influencing risk, prediction and treatment

G Targher, KE Corey, CD Byrne - Diabetes & metabolism, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and aim Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), affecting up to around 30%
of the world's adult population, causes considerable liver-related and extrahepatic morbidity …

Metabolic spectrum of liver failure in type 2 diabetes and obesity: from NAFLD to NASH to HCC

H Kim, DS Lee, TH An, HJ Park, WK Kim… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Liver disease is the spectrum of liver damage ranging from simple steatosis called as
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Clinically …

The microcirculation: a key player in obesity-associated cardiovascular disease

O Sorop, TD Olver, J van de Wouw… - Cardiovascular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
It is increasingly recognized that obesity is a risk factor for microvascular disease, involving
both structural and functional changes in the microvasculature. This review aims to describe …

Sarcopenic obesity: Myokines as potential diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets?

A Guo, K Li, Q Xiao - Experimental Gerontology, 2020 - Elsevier
Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is a condition characterized by the occurrence of both sarcopenia
and obesity and imposes a heavy burden on the health of the elderly. Controversies and …

Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes and the impact of altered metabolic interorgan crosstalk

JM Sanches, LN Zhao, A Salehi, CB Wollheim… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Diabetes is a complex and multifactorial disease that affects millions of people worldwide,
reducing the quality of life significantly, and results in grave consequences for our health …

Sexual function, obesity, and weight loss in men and women

DL Rowland, SM McNabney… - Sexual medicine …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Obesity is a major health concern in the United States and many developed
countries. Among its many deleterious effects are those that can affect the sexual response …