Targeting thermogenesis in brown fat and muscle to treat obesity and metabolic disease

MJ Betz, S Enerbäck - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2018 - nature.com
Brown fat is emerging as an interesting and promising target for therapeutic intervention in
obesity and metabolic disease. Activation of brown fat in humans is associated with marked …

Role of thyroid hormone in skeletal muscle physiology

FF Bloise, A Cordeiro… - Journal of …, 2018 - joe.bioscientifica.com
Thyroid hormones (TH) are crucial for development, growth, differentiation, metabolism and
thermogenesis. Skeletal muscle (SM) contractile function, myogenesis and bioenergetic …

Thyroid hormone receptors, cell growth and differentiation

A Pascual, A Aranda - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Tissue homeostasis depends on the balance between cell proliferation and
differentiation. Thyroid hormones (THs), through binding to their nuclear receptors, can …

American Thyroid Association guide to investigating thyroid hormone economy and action in rodent and cell models: report of the American Thyroid Association Task …

AC Bianco, G Anderson, D Forrest, VA Galton… - Thyroid, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Background: An in-depth understanding of the fundamental principles that regulate thyroid
hormone homeostasis is critical for the development of new diagnostic and treatment …

Cryotherapy reduces inflammatory response without altering muscle regeneration process and extracellular matrix remodeling of rat muscle

G Vieira Ramos, CM Pinheiro, SP Messa, GB Delfino… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The application of cryotherapy is widely used in sports medicine today. Cooling could
minimize secondary hypoxic injury through the reduction of cellular metabolism and injury …

Thyroid hormone as a determinant of metabolic and contractile phenotype of skeletal muscle

WS Simonides, C van Hardeveld - Thyroid, 2008 - liebertpub.com
Skeletal muscles are composed of several types of fibers with different contractile and
metabolic properties. Genetic background and type of innervation of the fibers primarily …

Somitogenesis: From somite to skeletal muscle

G Musumeci, P Castrogiovanni, R Coleman… - Acta …, 2015 - Elsevier
Myogenesis is controlled by an elaborate system of extrinsic and intrinsic regulatory
mechanisms in all development stages. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of …

Thyroid hormone regulates muscle fiber type conversion via miR-133a1

D Zhang, X Wang, Y Li, L Zhao, M Lu, X Yao… - Journal of Cell …, 2014 - rupress.org
It is known that thyroid hormone (TH) is a major determinant of muscle fiber composition, but
the molecular mechanism by which it does so remains unclear. Here, we demonstrated that …

Thyroid hormone receptor β-specific agonist GC-1 increases energy expenditure and prevents fat-mass accumulation in rats

CM Villicev, FRS Freitas, MS Aoki… - Journal of …, 2007 - joe.bioscientifica.com
It is well known that thyroid hormone affects body composition; however, the effect of the
thyroid hormone receptor β (TRβ)-selective thyromimetic GC-1 on this biological feature had …

Resistance to thyroid hormone is associated with raised energy expenditure, muscle mitochondrial uncoupling, and hyperphagia

CS Mitchell, DB Savage, S Dufour… - The Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH), a dominantly inherited disorder usually associated
with mutations in thyroid hormone receptor β (THRB), is characterized by elevated levels of …