After one consumes food or a beverage containing fructose, the gastrointestinal system, or gut, helps to shield the liver from damage by breaking down the sugar before it reaches the liver, according ...

A fascinating new study, published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, is shedding light on a previously unknown mechanism by which a hormone released from the gut in the hours after ...

November 9, 2010 (Boston, Massachusetts) — A 4.3% reduction in body weight and an approximate 42% reduction of triglyceride levels in subjects with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) was ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A hallmark of prostate cancer progression is dysregulation of lipid metabolism via overexpression of fatty acid synthase (FASN), a key enzyme ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Dietary carbohydrate was necessary for larval development of the parasitic wasp, Exeristes roborator, reared on fatty acid-free artificial ...

Adrian J McNairn; Yanne Doucet; Julien Demaude; Marion Brusadelli; Christopher B Gordon; Armando Uribe-Rivera; Paul F Lambert; Charbel Bouez; Lionel Breton; Géraldine Guasch To determine the effect of ...

Tumor cells are known to produce high amounts of intracellular lipids, leading to increased levels of fatty acids, cholesterol and membrane phospholipids. Death domain-associated protein (DAXX) is a ...

In this review, I focus on recent studies using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) that have implicated ectopic lipid accumulation in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance in muscle and the liver ...

The liver X receptor (LXR) is a nuclear hormone receptor that is one of the most important regulators of cholesterol homeostasis and plays a key role in triglyceride (TG) regulation. Researchers from ...