scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Nutrient sensing and inflammation in metabolic diseases.

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2008 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 12, pp 923-934
TLDR
This Review provides an overview of several important networks that sense and manage nutrients and discusses how they integrate with immune and inflammatory pathways to influence the physiological and pathological metabolic states in the body.
Abstract
The proper functioning of the pathways that are involved in the sensing and management of nutrients is central to metabolic homeostasis and is therefore among the most fundamental requirements for survival. Metabolic systems are integrated with pathogen-sensing and immune responses, and these pathways are evolutionarily conserved. This close functional and molecular integration of the immune and metabolic systems is emerging as a crucial homeostatic mechanism, the dysfunction of which underlies many chronic metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis. In this Review we provide an overview of several important networks that sense and manage nutrients and discuss how they integrate with immune and inflammatory pathways to influence the physiological and pathological metabolic states in the body.

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

The role of low-grade inflammation and metabolic flexibility in aging and nutritional modulation thereof: a systems biology approach.

TL;DR: M Mathematical modeling of inflammation and metabolic regulation, with incorporation of mechanistic knowledge on interactions between inflammatory and metabolic mediators, may help in devising nutritional interventions capable of preventing, or ameliorating, the age-associated functional decline of the corresponding systems.
Journal ArticleDOI

Proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1β suppresses cold-induced thermogenesis in adipocytes

TL;DR: The findings suggest that IL-1β upregulated in obese adipose tissues suppresses β-adrenoreceptor-stimulated induction of UCP1 expression through ERK activation in adipocytes.
Journal ArticleDOI

Obesity and its associated disease: a role for microbiota?

TL;DR: The gut microbiota are implicated in the pathogenesis of the obesity and its related metabolic diseases and host innate and adaptive immune responses define an individual’s gut microbiota.
Journal ArticleDOI

The pathophysiology of abdominal adipose tissue depots in health and disease.

TL;DR: The present review will examine the phenotypic and pathophysiological differences between the different AT depots, with a particular focus on the abdominal depots and their link to metabolic complications.
Journal ArticleDOI

Potential for therapeutic manipulation of the UPR in disease

TL;DR: This work focuses on the molecular signaling pathways of the UPR and suggests possible ways to target this response for therapeutic purposes.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

TL;DR: It is demonstrated through metagenomic and biochemical analyses that changes in the relative abundance of the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes affect the metabolic potential of the mouse gut microbiota and indicates that the obese microbiome has an increased capacity to harvest energy from the diet.
Journal ArticleDOI

Inflammation and metabolic disorders

TL;DR: Dysfunction of the immune response and metabolic regulation interface can be viewed as a central homeostatic mechanism, dysfunction of which can lead to a cluster of chronic metabolic disorders, particularly obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Journal ArticleDOI

Adipose expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha: direct role in obesity-linked insulin resistance

TL;DR: A role for TNF-alpha in obesity and particularly in the insulin resistance and diabetes that often accompany obesity is indicated.
Journal ArticleDOI

Chronic inflammation in fat plays a crucial role in the development of obesity-related insulin resistance.

TL;DR: It is proposed that obesity-related insulin resistance is, at least in part, a chronic inflammatory disease initiated in adipose tissue, and that macrophage-related inflammatory activities may contribute to the pathogenesis of obesity-induced insulin resistance.
Journal ArticleDOI

Signal integration in the endoplasmic reticulum unfolded protein response

TL;DR: Together, at least three mechanistically distinct arms of the UPR regulate the expression of numerous genes that function within the secretory pathway but also affect broad aspects of cell fate and the metabolism of proteins, amino acids and lipids.
Related Papers (5)