Endocrine Abstracts

Obesity pandemic has a tremendous impact on economic and healthcare systems. Our group investigates molecular mechanisms involved in obesity and its associated diseases such as type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We are particularly interested in studying the actions and mechanisms by which the central nervous system, and more precisely the hypothalamus, controls energy homeostasis. We have provided evidence that different gastrointestinal hormones such as G...

Development and progression of liver diseases, from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to steatohepatitis (NASH), and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), seem to be accompanied by a dysregulation of the expression of alternative splicing variants (SVs) and appearance of aberrant SVs. The splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) represents a crucial player for the functional assembly of the spliceosome, the core machinery that controls the splicing process, and its activity can ...

Background and aimsG protein-coupled receptor 55 (GPR55) is a putative cannabinoid receptor, and l-α-lysophosphatidylinositol (LPI) is its only known endogenous ligand. Although GPR55 has been linked to energy homeostasis in different organs, its specific role in lipid metabolism in the liver and its contribution to the pathophysiology of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) remains unknown.MethodWe...